Toyota Land Cruiser Station Wagon (2003 - 2009) boot space, practicality and safety

All models get a reasonable tally of safety equipment including driver, passenger, side and curtain airbags. The chassis (which is separate from the body to give extra resilience when off-roading) has been developed to absorb crash impacts, but it hasn’t been crash tested by Euro NCAP, so has no crash safety rating. Security hasn’t been overlooked, with all models getting an alarm, immobiliser and deadlocks.

Second row seats split/fold on both three- and five-door models. As the five-door is much longer, it’s a more practical proposition, and has an extra row of seats in the boot that can be folded flat, folded to the sides of the boot, or removed altogether (although that’s quite a chore). The third row can seat three children if necessary, making the Land Cruiser an eight-seater.

Without the third row seats, the five-door has 50 percent more boot space than the three-door, which is itself more accommodating than something like a Volkswagen Golf.