130series Land Cruiser 2007 & VW Touareg TDi uses Japanese Aisin slushbox

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Only mulbreastudes of 6 are okay....;))

(if only because an inline-6 leaves more room on the side of the engine, for aftermarket bells & whistles....:)) (OTOH, it might be worse, the shape of the nose *requiring* a shorter & lower engine....which would then mean that there *can't* be a 'poverty- pack' version of this model, with solid axles (and lockers front and rear; no locker available for the front axle on the luxury J100-IFS version today either), since those workhorses require both simplicity (no turbo, definitely not two) and the low-end torque of an inline-6.

The silly thing is: 220kW with the current inline-6 isn't very difficult to obtain either, with aftermarket tuning....even only requires 5-7.5k euro.

-- Bye,

Willem-Jan Markerink

The desire to understand is sometimes far less intelligent than the inability to understand

note: 'a-one' & 'en-el'!