2014 Toyota Sequoia

The 2014 Toyota Sequoia is the Japanese automaker's American-made battling for cars like the Ford Expedition, GMC Yukon, and Chevy Tahoe Japanese cars dealer. It's based on the Toyota Tundra, and the full-sizer has the specs to tow and backpack humans forth with those big-leaguers.

But while the domestic-branded SUVs accept approved to bland out and clarify their truck-based nature, the Sequoia revels in its truckiness--leading to some compromises in versatility, comfort, and amplitude ability adjoin the bigger crossover utilities based on passenger-car underpinnings.

Using the the Tundra pickup's boxy design, towing process, and blowing actualization for a account car gives the Sequoia a testosterone-tinged attending that can arise cartoonishly musclebound to some. If annihilation else, it beats the bearding administration of a lot of minivans--and no crossover can anytime achievement to battling its alpine and truck-based aboveboard stance.

The berth accessories of the Sequoia, predictably, feel like those of a high-end full-size auto in front, with two added rows of abounding wagon grafted on behind. That agency an apparatus console that's anatomic after searching too plain. For seating, you can specify bifold captain's chairs to alter a second-row bench, admitting it reduces the accommodation to seven. Both the second- and third-row seatbacks can be bankrupt advanced to a collapsed burden floor, with the additional row breach in three portions (40/20/40) and the third row in two (60/40). Storage amplitude is abounding already the third-row seats are bankrupt in place, which is fabricated simple acknowledgment to a power-folding option.

But while the Sequoia may allotment underpinnings with the Tundra auto truck, it rides and handles rather better. A four-wheel absolute abeyance helps accumulate the Sequoia abiding through corners for the a lot of part, although asperous patches--whether pavement patches or gravel-road washboards--can agitated its composure. Ride superior is acceptable for a body-on-frame truck, acknowledgment to the absolute rear abeyance system--with the ride even a footfall added composed with the alive capricious air abeyance (AVS) arrangement in the Platinum model. Road and wind babble feel absolutely able-bodied sealed-away, too.

In the past, you could accept from two altered V-8 engines for the Sequoia, but endure year Toyota discontinued the smaller-displacement (4.6-liter) choice. It's absolutely for the better, as a lot of Sequoia shoppers are towing-minded (tow ratings ambit up to 7,400 pounds). With 381 application and 401 pound-feet of torque, the actual V-8 is a powerhouse. But missing from the Sequoia's branch options account is any austere off-road hardware, or a committed off-road model, admitting 4WD is broadly accessible through the archetypal line). It all makes faculty if you see the abundant pricier Toyota Land Cruiser beyond the lot.

From abject and SR5 models, to the mid-level Limited trim, and up to the luxury-packed Platinum, the Sequoia spans added than $20k, active from the mid-$40,000 ambit up to the mid-$60,000 range. That's afore abacus any of the assorted official dealer-installed accessories. At the top of the calendar is the Sequoia Platinum, which adds Dynamic Laser Cruiser Control, a DVD touch-screen aeronautics system, and a new Blu-Ray rear ball arrangement with a 9-inch LCD awning and two sets of wireless headphones. A 12-way adjustable ability driver’s seat, acrimonious second-row seats, and the load-leveling air abeyance with three driver-selectable modes are aswell all included.

Standard on the Platinum brand and accessible on SR5 and Limited is a new Entune multimedia arrangement that provides admission to apps for Bing search, Pandora, and others, accouterment admission to ball or advice through your smartphone's abstracts connection.