Land Cruiser vs Patrol: which holds its value better in the UAE?

Ask around a majlis or a car park in Al Quoz and you will hear the same argument: the Land Cruiser keeps its money, the Patrol does not. Both cars are everywhere on Dubizzle, which makes the claim easy to check. On 7 October 2026 our index had 733 active Land Cruiser listings¹ and 983 Patrol listings³⁵.

We took the GCC-spec cars, grouped them by model year and looked at the median asking price for each year. That gives a price curve for each car. It is a picture taken on one day across model years, not one car followed over time, and it shows asking prices, not what people finally paid.

Median asking price by model year, side by side

Each row is a model year. The figure is the middle asking price of the GCC-spec listings for that year. Where a year has fewer than 10 listings we do not publish a price⁵¹.

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The Patrol has no published price for the 2011 and 2010 model years because fewer than 10 GCC-spec cars of each are listed^51,52, and the factsheet has no entry for the 2009 and 2008 model years. The Land Cruiser goes back further, to the 2008 model year²⁰, and for older years we hit the same wall²¹.

At the top, the two cars ask almost the same

For the newest cars there is very little between them. A 2026 Land Cruiser has a median asking price of AED 351,000², a 2026 Patrol AED 345,000³⁶. The 2025 model year is just as close: AED 295,000³ against AED 292,000³⁷.

The 2026 model year is the biggest group for both, with 233 Land Cruiser listings² and 171 Patrol listings³⁶. Our data does not say who is selling them, but cars this new are likely to be close to the new-car price rather than a typical used price.

The gap opens as soon as the cars are a few years old

From the 2024 model year back, the Patrol falls faster. A 2024 Land Cruiser asks AED 255,000⁴, a 2024 Patrol AED 221,090³⁸. For the 2023 model year it is AED 265,000⁵ against AED 175,000³⁹.

That 2023 Land Cruiser price is higher than the 2024 one^4,5. A curve should not go up with age, so it probably reflects what sits underneath each median: the mix of trims and mileage in each model year. With 47 listings for the 2023 Land Cruiser⁵ and 51 for the 2024⁴, a cluster of top-trim cars in one year could do it. The same happens further back: the 2009 Land Cruiser asks AED 61,000¹⁹ and the 2010 AED 59,500¹⁸, and the 2018 Patrol asks AED 80,000⁴⁴ against AED 79,000 for the 2019⁴³. Read single years with care and look at the trend across several.

For older cars, the Land Cruiser asks far more

This is where the majlis argument holds up best. A 2019 Land Cruiser asks AED 140,000⁹; a 2019 Patrol AED 79,000⁴³. A 2016 Land Cruiser asks AED 123,000¹²; a 2016 Patrol AED 57,250⁴⁶. By the 2012 model year it is AED 75,000¹⁶ against AED 38,000⁵⁰.

Remember that both cars started from roughly the same asking price at the top of the table^2,36. For the older model years, a Land Cruiser asks much more than a Patrol of the same year, and that is the pattern behind its reputation. A Land Cruiser of the 2010 model year still has a median asking price of AED 59,500¹⁸. A Patrol of that age does not have enough GCC-spec listings for us to publish one⁵².

Generation changes bend both curves

Some of the steps in the table come from new models arriving, not from ageing.

The Land Cruiser jumps from AED 175,000 for the 2021 model year⁷ to AED 219,000 for the 2022⁶. The 2022 model year is the first of the current 300 Series, which went on sale in the UAE in June 2021 from AED 229,900. A smaller step between the 2015¹³ and 2016¹² model years lines up with the facelift of the previous Land Cruiser.

The Patrol jumps from AED 221,090 for the 2024 model year³⁸ to AED 292,000 for the 2025³⁷. The 2025 model year is the first of the all-new Patrol, launched in Abu Dhabi in September 2024 at prices from AED 239,900 to AED 379,900. There is a second jump between the 2019⁴³ and 2020⁴² model years, which is where Nissan’s facelift of the previous Patrol arrived.

This matters for the comparison. A new generation pulls the top of the curve up, and the older years then look cheaper next to it than pure ageing would make them. The Patrol’s new model is the more recent of the two, so part of its steep early drop comes from that. On the other hand, the gap at the 2016^12,46 and 2012^16,50 model years is far too wide to be explained by a generation change alone.

What the snapshot does not show

• Sale prices. These are asking prices. A listing that disappears is not necessarily sold, and the final price can differ from the ask.
• Trims. Both models come in very different versions, from base trims to top-spec ones with a bigger engine. A median mixes them.
• Condition and mileage. Accident history and how hard a car was used in the desert move the price of an individual car far more than one model year does.
• Other versions. The older-shape Patrol Safari and the Land Cruiser 70 Series are counted as separate models and are not in these figures. So is the Prado.

What this means if you are buying

Our rule: if you plan to sell the car again within a few years and resale matters to you, the Land Cruiser keeps more of its asking price in this data, especially from the 2021 model year back^7,41. If you plan to keep the car for a long time, a Patrol of the same year costs much less to buy, and the lower price already reflects the drop in asking price that earlier owners went through.

A Patrol of the 2019 model year at AED 79,000⁴³ and a Land Cruiser of the 2012 model year at AED 75,000¹⁶ ask almost the same, for example. One is a much newer car, the other has the stronger resale record.

Before you commit:

1. Open the Land Cruiser and Patrol model pages and find the median for the exact model year you are offered. A car priced well above it needs a reason.
2. Put the two side by side in compare.
3. Open the running-costs page and then the Patrol version. Running costs on cars this size add up quickly, and resale is only part of the cost.
4. Check a specific asking price on the Check a seller’s price page, or set a ceiling first with the budget tool. Deals lists dealer cars priced well below the median of comparable ones.

How we measured

All figures come from active Dubizzle listings in the Cars Oracle index on 7 October 2026.

• Active listings count every Land Cruiser¹ and Patrol³⁵ listed for sale that day within our price filter, all regional specs included.
• Median asking price by model year uses GCC-spec cars only. Sample sizes run from 233 listings for the 2026 Land Cruiser² down to 10 for the 2008²⁰, and from 171 for the 2026 Patrol³⁶ down to 22 for the 2012⁵⁰.
• A model year with fewer than 10 GCC-spec listings has no published price and shows n/a⁵¹.

The full method, including the price filter and how we decide which specs count, is on the methodology page.