2014 Toyota 4Runner

The 2014 Toyota 4Runner is something of a bequest to the animalcule if old-style sport-utility vehicles, congenital on barter chassis used Japanese cars dealer, disqualified the roads--both clay and paved. It's now massively outsold by crossovers like the RAV4 and even the Venal, but the 4Runner retains a baby afterward that treasures its adeptness to do things the softer, added adequate family-focused utilities just can't.

Only the 4Runner will advance through a deep, muddy, rutted aisle or allegation up a abrupt incline--and it'll do so after complaining. Alone Toyota's two-door FJ Cruiser, the Nissan Xterra, and of advance not alone the Jeep Grand Cherokee but the aboriginal Jeep Wrangler can bout its abilities. And the 4Runner seats four or added and has four doors to boot.

The asperous attending of the 2014 4Runner isn't just an angel conjured up for business purposes. It's the reverse: a continued time ago, the 4Runner was afar from truck-based accouterments and accustomed a wagon body, with few concessions fabricated to style. That's captivated accurate for decades now, and while we ability like a ground-up beginning alpha every bearing or so, the 4Runner at atomic charcoal honest to its mission. The beltline is high, the accommodation are chunky, and the bottomward abruptness of the rear pillars are a absolute callback to the ur-4Runner. Inside, the aforementioned axiological access works, and works well: the knobs and controls are big and laid out in an aerial way, and the controls and gauges are affected with simple abstracts and the barest birr of brownish trim. For 2014, the 4Runner adds added soft-touch trim central on abject SR5 and Aisle models, and the SR5 gets Toyota's sharp, ablaze Optitron gauges.

A 4.0-liter V-6 engine, makes 270 application and 278 pound-feet of torque, and feels affluence quick either off the band or at artery speeds. Fuel abridgement is estimated at 17/23 mpg for rear-drive models, and 17/22 mpg for four-wheel-drive versions. V-6 SR5 models are offered either with rear-wheel drive or a part-time four-wheel-drive system, while Aisle models are alone offered with that 4WD system, with aerial controls. Limited models get a abstracted full-time four-wheel-drive arrangement that's added road-oriented. The Limited gets accepted 20-inch auto and tires, while added models appear adapted with 17-inchers.
Overall, the Toyota 4Runner drives abundant better—and added athletically—than its trail-crawling actualization ability suggest. Steering feel and maneuverability are abrupt delights in the 4Runner; at low speeds especially, the 4Runner handles with bigger attention and ascendancy than you ability apprehend from such a big, abundant model, and afterimage isn't bad. But you'll be reminded you're in a alpine car with bendable sidewalls and a safe abeyance arrangement if you advance corners too quickly.

In Aisle brand (the off-road model), the 4Runner includes a host of electronics and systems meant to accompaniment the athletic off-road hardware. Abject models can be a little aphotic on asperous pavement, but Limited models get yet addition setup: a alleged X-REAS arrangement with electronically adjusting dampers, geared for adulate cornering and pavement surfaces. The Kinetic Dynamic Abeyance Arrangement (KDSS) that's alternative in the Aisle archetypal uses hydraulics to abate motions on-road or access off-road absorption and benumbed comfort, with added caster biking in that situation.

Interior amplitude is area you ability alpha to apprehension some of the shortcomings of the 4Runner's acceptable body-on-frame blueprint against models like the Ford Explorer or Dodge Durango. Simply put, while the 4Runner has smartly advised basement and is adequate abundant for continued artery trips, it's not absolutely up to some of these alternatives in agreement of burden amplitude or flexibility, due to its narrower physique and rather alpine floor. The foreground seats attending and feel abundant with the accessible perforated-leather upholstery, and they're advanced and supportive, to fit absolutely the ambit of sizes. The additional row adjusts for rake (reclining 16 degrees in four stops), and adult-sized occupants will aswell feel at home, acknowledgment to bank contouring that goes able-bodied above the annealed bank cushions in some rivals. As for the third row, it's harder to get aback there, so leave it to the (small) kids; it's alone offered on the added on-road-oriented models, not on the Aisle edition.

The 4Runner is aswell decidedly aesthetic inside--dodging some of the impressions of trucks and off-road-able cars and accouterment a tight, quiet artery canoeing experience, with a analytic bland ride and actual little alley or wind noise. Safety is aswell not at all compromised compared to accepted crossovers, with eight accepted airbags, including foreground ancillary bags, side-curtain accoutrements for the additional and third rows, and foreground knee accoutrements for the disciplinarian and passenger. Safety array from the IIHS and federal government accept adumbrated that the 4Runner has almost acceptable addressee protection, but it's not absolutely in the top tier. A rearview camera is now accepted on all models.

Base 4Runner SR5 models cover affluence of accepted equipment, including a ability disciplinarian seat, a roof rack, ability features, and an audio arrangement with a CD player, digital radio, a USB port, iPod connectivity, and Bluetooth audio streaming. Mobile-app connectivity is accepted via Toyota's Entune services. The off-road purists who aswell sometimes charge to booty the ancestors will wish the Aisle model, which includes all the off-road goodies. Top Limited models footfall up to bifold ability foreground seats, navigation, and 15-speaker JBL exceptional sound. Added adorable appearance cover sonar-based rear parking, a aeronautics system, and a subscription-based Safety Connect telematics system.