Toyota Century morphs into an SUV – imperious new Tokyo Tonka to rival Rolls-Royce and Bentley

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If you’ve ever been to Tokyo, the chances are you’ll have seen the stately Toyota Century limos rolling around the world’s first megacity, boxy upright slabs of Japanese engineering cruising the urban jungle in a stately hush.

Now there’s a new type of Century – which bends to the whim of the SUV craze. Yes, an even bigger, higher, boxier…