In keeping with my general obsession with retro-SUV's, I dug this http://www.rodmillen.com/Lcruiser.htm up today. Oh, man, if Toyota had the balls to produce this.

It is essentially an old FJ45 body hacked up and stretched over a current Landcruiser/Tundra frame. Note the flat top and large amounts of flat glass for visibility. Note the absence of any plastic or fiberglass. The back is good, if uneventful. I might have gone with a split-back swing out and suicide seats in the back. The side is good, although the set of four creases beneath the larger indentation seem fussy and unnecessary to me. Overall, the impression is "Truck", not "space egg".

I'd buy one of these in a heartbeat. Unfortunately, the price is apparently $350,000, a bit steep for me. So my options are either to wait for the FJ Cruiser, which I'm still ambivalent about, or buy an old FJ40 or FJ55, which, restored, cost at least 35K. Not an easy decision.