Toyota really played the V8 card when the 200 Series LandCruiser arrived in 2007.
Suddenly, there was no six-cylinder option at all, and it was a V8 all the way, regardless of whether you went petrol or diesel. The 200 Series features a twin-turbo 4.5-litre diesel V8.
In the case of the former, the engine was still the 2UZ-FE (although peak power was now out to 202kW) and if you went diesel, you got the all-new 4.5-litre 1VD-FTV V8 diesel with twin turbochargers and peak power of 195kW and a whopping 650Nm of torque.
The petrol LandCruiser V8 engine could be had in the V8 GXL LandCruiser and up (VX and Sahara), while the diesel V8 was also available on the base-model GX.