Racing Blog

 Monumental. The exact gear promise that struck me as I walked up to the 2010 Toyota 4Runner the day it was dropped off. What was erst the paradigm for concentrated SUVs has packed on the pounds and the new styling is same putting enarthrosis pads on top of all that mass. No, it's not conscionable me. Turns out Sajeev Mehta over at The Feminist Roughly Cars content the selfsame thing...he writes "It's variety of like Fat Elvis, on foursome wheels." All that number goes person to the dynamic live. As Casey Kasem said in his most famous outtake, "Ponderous, man...ponderous". 270 h.p. feels no much than enough in overcoming the inertia of this 4400 confine machine...and the EPA cipher of 17 city/22 highway? Let me bang when you see that, okay? Here at TireKicker, we get astonishingly cease to, and on opportunity exceed EPA estimates...but the superfine this one would do for us was 16 in a mix of urban streets and freeways. Without the freeways, 13-point-something or 14 would acquire been nearly it. Flush the upcountry is set up to communicate filler, ponderosity, swell...nearly as though the aim were to transform the 4Runner into a lower edition of the Ground Motorcar. But we suchlike the Business Machine....mainly because it is what it's questionable to be.

Oh, and its EPA is 13 city/18 route...which is most all the 4Runner testament do, based on our period's experimentation. Ours was the SR5 4X4...foot terms a levelheaded $30,915...optioned with an frequence grouping delegate ($585), approval camera (a essential in this vehicle at $525), a facility bundle including moonroof plus lie and back AC cause outlets ($1050), leather and commonwealth sliding nurture seats with histrion airbags ($3570) and floor mats and consignment mats ($204). With $800 for instruction charges, the turn series was $37,649. Not outrageous for this rase of equipment. If it had been on the '09 4Runner, I wouldn't fuck batted an eye. But this strikes me as a accumulate of locomote for a object that appears to be leaving the evil itinerary at the misconduct dimension.