Kluger

The few magazine articles that I have seen have said that the Kluger was pretty ordinary off-road. As with most of these suedo 4x4,s, they are limited as dirt road only and cannot be expected to function as a heavy duty 4x4 will.
With no low-range gearing, no drive-line lockability, and terrible wheel travel, secondary roads are its limit.

We have one as the family hack. More Camry than Cruiser. It's really a larger body on a jacked up Camry Wagon platform. Wheel travel is limited, although clearance is not bad. Driveline is very smooth on the road but high range only. If you put on some tougher tyres it would make a good statiion go-to-town car. We have the top model with the traction control (others have LSD) and even it went well on the beach at Xmas. Build quality is typical Tojo high standard. You will see a lot of people currently driving Prado's and Pajero's around the 'burbs in these as time goes on, they have the same space/features but without the hardware most of these folks don't need.