Toyota 4Runner TRD-Pro Review - More of Same - Test Drive | Everyday Driver
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- The Toyota 4Runner is a long running and beloved model in the Toyota truck lineup. We test drive it on and off road to discuss what's new in the 2020, and disagree on why it's worth buying. Join us and claim your side.
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Just bought this. Hands down, our most favorite vehicle we’ve ever owned!
I know what you mean!! I bought a 2021 4Runner SR5 Premium this past January. I love it! I'm enjoying customizing it.
One guy gets it the other guy wants mom mobile suv. This truck is made for off road handling, it’s not for cruising to Walmart.
Yes it’s underpowered and old but it’s reliable and more capable than any mom mobile john lennon hair style guy wants. What he wants is the Kia Telluride which will have crappy resale and 30% of the off road capabilities.
And people, it is not noisy and full of transmission sounds, pure biased bs. After several thousand miles the exhaust breaks in and sounds normal.
Keep your mall mom suv, give me the old school 4Runner any day.
I drive one!! Trust me...I completely agree with you.
It’s the perfect truck for 4 adults to go skiing with. Nothing is as good. The wrangler isn’t comfortable enough. The grand Cherokee is not strong enough/ reliable enough. We ripped the front off ours in a snow bank avoiding a deer. We purchased a 2020 trd off-road. It’s the most comfortable car we have ever owned without feeling like it was going to fall apart after a year. And it will get 20 mpg when you are driving for economy. After a 6 hour trip I felt more relaxed then after a 4 hour flight. EVERYONE SHOULD BUY THIS TRUCK BEFOR THE STOP MAKING IT!!!!! It will last for 25 years and you’ll make up the fuel cost in lack of maintenance.
And for all of these other cars he mentions, and for all of the upgrades he wants...see me in seven to ten or so yes when my 4Runner is still going strong with 200k miles while all of those others are long gone. I’ll take things being a little outdated and not as refined knowing my truck is pretty much bullet proof
Ok it is Thanksgiving weekend and I'm binge watching your reviews and loving them!
In high school in the early 80s I owned a 77 hilux sr5 pickup that in my high school auto shop class I learned to weld rollbars, body bars and bumpers on it and make a 5" body lift kit for it and loved that truck but it had a 4 cylinder engine that could barely pull the 33" tires I put on it.
Back then I always thought it would be great if Toyota made a 4 door truck with a decent powered v6.
In the early 90s I bought a used 1990 2 door 4runner with a 4 cylinder enginw and liked it so so but it just wasn't designed to the quality that I thought Toyota could make and it felt not quite finished.
So when they made a 4runner with 4 doors that had a v6 engine I was excited but by then I wasn't into off roading any more and was into buying cars instead of off road vehicles.
Coincidently last year my 22 year old son bought a 2016 Toyota 4runner and loves it. He's modified the throttle response with an inexpensive easy to install modification so that he can dial in exactly how responsive you want the throttle from instant off the line all the way up to slow and smooth.
He also uses it to do overlanding and camping which is something he rarely did before owning the 4runner so he's expanded his adventure and experience which is great!
IMO Toyota 4runner has landed on a design look that most people like so I'm ok with them not changing the look that much in future years. Think of how the Porsche 911 hasn't changed the body style that much and has instead focused on performance and refinement. I think the 4runner should keep doing the same as Porsche. Cheers! :)
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These are good rigs. Love how you guys were talking about it being old. It's a bloody dinosaur!! But a Dinosaur that probably won't ever go extinct...
Great car indeed
I think Paul needs to do these type of reviews solo. Todd holds them to standards he doesn't hold his cars to. Drives a Lotus, complains that a purpose built off-roader makes noise. He doesn't understand this corner of the enthusiast market, and does the Everyday Driver brand a disservice.
I've seen these things in my off road club camp, rock crawl, handle rutted roads, drive through mud holes, and do it comfortably. Have some respect please.
Still doesn't justify the fact that it's painfully slow. I'm by all means the target market for the 4runner. Still when I test drove it I could not make sense of the lackluster acceleration in an suv this expensive.
Ya but will a ford still be running smooth at 300,000 miles like a 4Runner will be years from now? Probably not!
7:47 the outgoing nissan frontier a few weeks earlier ? lmao
Got out of my car where I was listening to the podcast, hopped on RUclips, and found a 3-minute old video. Click!
Billy Bob Joe III beat me to it by 6 whole seconds!
Just got my 2021 4Runner TRD Off road Premium. I love it. I bought it for it’s off-road capabilities and proven track record. I plan on having it for 10+ years. The problem is, until the Bronco comes out, the only competitor is the Jeep and I just can’t spend $40k or more on a Fiat... lol
I've been a 4th gen owner for 5 years. It's my first 4R. I will ALWAYS own a 4Runner from here on out.
I have a 20 Trd Pro Tundra and love it!! Trd Pro Runner is a beast!!
I can still get $37k for my 2016 Pro. Opinions mean nothing, follow the money.
We have a 2020 4Runner TRD PRO AG in the garage. Both Todd & Paul are correct! The 4Runner is awesome because it is what it is and doesn’t try to be only thing else. Yes it needs more gears but it does not the awful low torque 3.5 in the Tacoma.
Don’t want the body roll get a TRD OFF Road with KDSS.
We bought ours because we didn’t want a JL Rubicon. Coming up on 11 months of ownership and my wife still giggles every time she starts it up - she’s I her 40’s!
Our daughters are loving learning to drive on the trails around Las Vegas vs their friends which are learning on the boring streets.
Is 50k a lot - Yes! I always swore I wouldn’t buy a Toyota because they have no personality, but not the 4Runner TRD PRO. And I would do it again, but the Bronco is coming out. That will be a full garage with both a 4Runner & Bronco.
Hi, love ❤️ the Toyota 4Runners! I have a 2021 Toyota 4Runner SR5 premium and I love it. Thank you for video.
When driving a Mazda Miata, the drive is described as engaging. When driving a driving a body on frame truck or suv, it's described as outdated and lumbering.
You’re suggesting the Miata and a pickup feel the same to drive…
@@TestDriveVideos Ha! Ha! No. My point is that both have an old school feel. The Mazda feels like driving a car before technology took over. The same with the 4Runner. It feels like you are driving an old school truck but with the reliability. I think some technology steals from the driving experience. I have always enjoyed driving my old cars...when they are running. You guys do a great job with reviews. I was just giving my 2 cents worth.
Todd, I think you're missing the point. Toyota needs to make the 4 runner such that people who should be buying the highlander hate it. That's what they should do. Truck people are closer to sports car people than they are to highlander people. They want the engine to be in their driving experience all the time. They want to feel like the car is constantly vying for their attention rather than fading into the background. I'm delighted that the 4 runner is a worse car than a highlander. That means there's still a reason for it to exist- for the people who would rather drive an annoying car than a boring car.
oof.... that price....
OK. So the problem is the 4 runner is built for the 3rd or 4th owners. The only good reason to buy a new 4 runner is if you expect to be using still when its 30 years old with 250,000 miles.
The 5 speed needs to go. I am standing fast for Magnuson to crack the ECU so I can get the extra power it needs to not search for gears when over 65mph.
It's definitely old. But the whole point is simple, bullet proof, drive forever with minimal work.
The engine is fine, but 100% correct on that transmission. Even a 6-speed with different spacing gears would go a long way to make in that thing even better, and still reliable.
The long haired guy kinda looks like the guy from creep
The 20 year old 4 runner is excellent. What's the problem?
The sliding cargo deck was last found in the Pontiac Aztek. :)
Paul wishes his Jeep Cherokee was more like the 4Runner. Then I get a video ad for the Jeep Cherokee lmao
Lots of women my wife works with love their newish 4Runners. No TY, this informed man says.
I have a '21 coming in a week or two ... regarding the pedal travel (throttle map) ... I think this map is great off-road ... lots of fine control, but I agree that a separate throttle map for on-road would go far in terms of reducing the sense of the truck not having enough power. Think pedal commander ... makes the truck feel totally different from what I've read, simply by changing (cheating) the pedal map. FWIW I am trading a '16 ORP for a '21 TRD Pro and can't be more excited.
Still love it. Yes everything is ancient and that’s what us Toyota 4Runner owners love. Jump in the competitions vehicles (which there Really isn’t any) and the car spend more time in the shop than with you.
Todd just doesn't "get" it. They sell so well BECAUSE they haven't changed in over a decade. Toyota knows exactly what they're doing here and the consumers are lining up.
But as always, it's great to get his opinion on a vehicle. And for the money, the outdated aspect of it simply isn't going to work for the CUV crowd.
spot on comments again guys :)
Have to stop talking over each other!
I've owned over a dozen vehicles since I sold my '98 SR5 4Runner. It's the only one I truly regret selling. I never liked my '18 Tacoma TRD4X4 because of the Miller Cycle 4.0 which got horrible gas mileage and the finicky 6-speed trans that could never find the right gear. It is now gone and I don't regret selling it. I've gotta guess this new 4R has the same issues.
BTW, real off-load vehicles don't have running boards, the have rock rails. Jus sayin.....
4 runner people still go buy 90's 4 runners rather than new ones, so I don't think designing new toyota truck platforms is really in toyota's best interest.
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Meeeehhhhhh.... I can buy a jeep for that money but I also want to be able to drive it and go home at the end of the day.
A 5 speed transmission is something you'd expect from a cheap Mitsubishi.
Off roads this is unstoppable. On roads, it is not really safe to drive. Nose dive under braking is dangerous. Do not buy this vehicle unless you want to off road.
Quite ugly