2011 Toyota 4Runner Reviews

Overview

When it was aboriginal alien in the 1980s, the Toyota 4Runner was about a bunched auto barter with five-passenger basement and a abiding bed shell. My, how times accept changed. While the 4Runner charcoal a body-on-frame based SUV, it has acquired considerably, and it now competes adjoin a sea of on-road biased, car-based crossovers.

The all-new 2011 Toyota 4Runner is longer, wider, and taller than before, and is powered by either a 2.7-liter four butt engine akin to a four-speed automated (available for rear-drive models only), or Toyota’s 270 horsepower, 4.0-liter V-6 and five-speed automated combination. Instead of accepting softer, the new 4Runner plays on its character and strengths, with Toyota authoritative it even added off-road able than before.

Toyota has added several air-conditioned aisle appearance to the 4Runner, including Crawl Control, a arrangement that controls burke and anchor at low speeds, enabling the disciplinarian to bigger focus on council inputs. The 4Runner aswell has an absorbing 9.6 inches of arena clearance, and its Kinetic Dynamic Suspension Arrangement can abstract the anti-roll confined for added caster delivery and travel. In addition, the 4Runner’s Multi-Terrain Arrangement offers several pre-programmed off-road settings.

The Range

Body styles: SUV

Engines: 2.7L I-4, 4.0L V-6

Transmissions: 4-speed automatic, 6-speed automatic

Models: SR5, Trail, Limited

What’s New

We were acquisitive for the accession of the company’s new 4.6L V-8 as an option, but that hasn’t happened. In fact, there are alone accessory changes for 2011: the sport/utility car receives a new anchor override system. In addition, the sliding burden tray/cargo organizer is a standalone advantage on two-row Limited models; the burden organizer is a abstracted advantage on Aisle models.

Exterior

The new 4Runner is bigger, added rugged-looking, and bolder than before, with a bold, in-your-face appearance that screams off-road. The 4Runner Aisle Edition adds atramentous fender flares, grille, account roof rack, and the awning accustomed a awning scoop. Seventeen-inc

Interior

Five-passenger basement is accepted for the 4Runner, and allowance for seven is optional. All 4Runners appear accepted with an eight-speaker audio system, tailgate affair audio, a slide-out burden tray, and an eight-way adjustable driver’s bench with ability lumbar su

Performance & Handling

While the 4Runner excels off-road – Toyota activated it at acceleration in the Baja 1000 and as a apathetic rock-crawler on the world-famous Rubicon Aisle — it is decidedly able on the alley as well. While its body-on-frame architectonics and reside rear arbor can accomplish for a animated ride, its council is beeline and responsive, and its brakes are acknowledging and simple to modulate. The 4.0-liter V-6 4Runner alcove 60 mph in 7.8 seconds.

Safety

Driver and foreground commuter airbags are standard, as are foreground seat-mounted ancillary airbags, roll-sensing ancillary blind airbags for all rows, and bifold foreground knee airbags. Stability control, absorption control, and ABS with cyberbanking brake-force administration and anchor abetment are aswell standard.

EPA Fuel Economy

SR5: 17-18 mpg city/22-23 mpg highway

Trail: 17 mpg city/22 mpg highway

Limited: 17 mpg city/22-23 mpg highway

You’ll Like

Off-road capability

Sliding burden tray

Air-conditioned styling

Seven-passenger capability

You Won’t Like

No V-8 option

Heavy barrier weight

Animated ride

Cluttered barometer layout