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Toyota 4Runner
Motor Trend
|Winter 2026
Is the 4Runner an iconic vehicle? You'd think so, the way Toyota treats it.
The last one stayed on the market for 15 years with minimal updates. The next-generation SUV is new in every way, but its designers and engineers went out of their way to make it look and feel as much like an older model as possible. Only Porsche works harder to not change. It’s an impressive degree of dedication to meeting customers where they are, but does it make the 2025 Toyota 4Runner an SUV of the Year winner? We're not kidding when we say “all-new.” The sixth-generation 4Runner rides on a new platform shared with every other body-on-frame Toyota vehicle, runs new engines and transmissions and hybrid systems shared with the Tacoma and Land Cruiser, sports a new interior heavily shared with those two, and has new bodywork with callbacks all the way to the first-generation 4Runner of the 1980s.'
This story is from the Winter 2026 edition of Motor Trend.
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