I liked the link, thanks.
Many interesting comments.
I’ve had friends ask if saw the shooter in the side window, now I have!
—”Series 70 Land Cruiser”
A quick search shows the payload of 780Kg/1700lb- 1220Kg/2700lb.
More than a few ways to protect a vehicle, all of them heavy to extremely heavy.
Notice the lack of deflection when he hits the white truck?
This beast drives like the Queen Mary.
At the end of this video, it is clear he is hung up on top of something?
https://satrucker.co.za/watch-dashcam-footage-of-cash-van-crew-under-attack-from-cit-robbers/
Also does not appear to have all that much ground clearance, see photos after video in the link.
“The Single-Cab chassis, with a payload of about 1220kg (driver, passengers, and tray included), can carry the
most....The 76 Wagon, with a payload of 780kg (driver and passengers included) can carry the least.”
Guessing that the Land Cruiser is well over the operating weightlimit, yes they upgrade the suspension.
Toyota doesn’t offer an armored Land Cruiser 70, so it’s likely that it’s a conversion done by a local coachbuilder. There’s more than a few firms in South Africa that perform such conversions.
I wouldn’t put much stock in the thing’s parked height being normal operation height - a lot of armored vehicle conversions use airbag suspensions/helper springs that can deflate when the vehicle is parked, or can deflate if you rip out the air lines to them by driving over something.
Armored vehicle conversions usually incorporate engine modifications to compensate for the extra weight, and it already had a fairly torquey 317lb-ft turbodiesel to start. My guess, given how it accelerates and the evident armor thickness and weight, is that it was probably more in the 500 range the way it moved. It’s interesting that it’s a converted GXL-trim Double Cab Pickup version - usually those conversions for ‘working’ armored vehicles are built off more spartan trims.
Either way, that LC is simply not going to care about three or four people in front of it. It will simply plow forward, especially if he slaps the transfer case lever down into 4WD High or down and across to 4WD Low. Those things have stump-pulling drivetrains and since they’re sold in a troop carrier variant, they’re on video plowing under crowds of ‘demonstrators’ or ‘rebels’ many times in the past three decades they’ve been made.