Pumped-Up Toyota Land Cruiser Looks Like It Eats SUVs for Breakfast, Must Be on Steroids

Wald must be keeping the Toyota Land Cruiser on a special diet with a lot of protein, vitamins, steroids, and everything else. This Land Cruiser looks like it eats your usual SUVs for breakfast.

Under the Waldo International skin, aka body kit, this SUV is your usual Land Cruiser, which was slapped with the Desert Series Black Bison Edition designation. And it’s not just the name.

The tuning package is absolutely insane. It brings wide fenders, redesigned bumpers, a completely new grille, and a roof extended with a wing for better aerodynamics, which is hard to achieve, considering the boxy shape of the Land Cruiser.

Wald International warned us about the arrival of the real deal by introducing renderings last year. Back then, we almost thought the way the SUV looked in the renderings could never be replicated in reality. Fast forward to 2025, and here we are, looking at the real deal. Wald unveiled it at the 2025 Osaka Auto Messe.

The model looks as ferociously aggressive as it did in the renderings. The front fascia was basically redesigned, and it now integrates extra daytime running lights flanking a custom grille. New air intakes and an aluminum skid plate are also part of the plan, while a huge scoop showed up on the hood. The wing that extends the roof credits the model with a bit of a sporty feeling.

The vehicle is all fins and spoilers, and LEDs. The fenders got extended, which give the Land Cruiser an intimidating stance. Those wider fenders make room for larger wheels with mud-terrain tires. The Toyota-badged off-roader features a lift kit and wider tracks that will get it planted on rough surfaces, in a three-wheel deal, for instance. When you have a wheel mid-air, you need all the traction and ground clearance you can get.

Wald International will also roll out a street-focused version of the Black Bison. That version will sport larger wheels, performance tires, and a lowering kit, canceling part of the model’s off-road capabilities. But you can always go for the lifted variant if you want to go off-roading.

The model is underpinned by Toyota’s TNGA-F architecture and is built around the robust ladder frame. The Japanese tuner has not mentioned anything about injecting some extra oomph into the Toyota’s powertrain and there is no word about the power plant operating under that new hood.

This means that it is either powered by the 2.7-liter gasoline engine, good for 160 horsepower (163 metric horsepower) and 181 pound-feet (246 Newton-meters) of torque, or the 2.8-liter turbodiesel, which generates 201 horsepower (204 metric horsepower) and 369 pound-feet (500 Newton-meters).

There is no information about pricing, either. In the US, the Land Cruiser starts at $63,270 but comes with the 2.4-liter four-cylinder I-Force Max hybrid powertrain.