In the mountains north of Vancouver, the mountain bike and the Toyota Tacoma are king. On any given Sunday, you can see all sorts of scabby-shinned dudes and dudettes hang twenty grand worth of downhill bikes off the tailgate of a ten-grand truck, and head up to the hills for some shredding action. “Me truck,” it says, “Me go get dirty.”

After being in production for over three decades, the 4Runner has proven itself. Time and again. It has nothing left to prove, to be honest. For those who want an honest, body-on-frame SUV, there really are not a lot of choices left. Its recognizable rugged good looks remain intact although it has also evolved into something a little more funky.

Vehicle Type Mid-size 4x4 SUV History/Description Optional Crawl Control and Multi-Terrain Select systems were on board, allowing drivers to tell the vehicle what sort of terrain they’re about to encounter, and allowing the computer to effectively optimize throttle sensitivity, braking and shifting as appropriate for the situation at hand.

Nothing else in the automotive realm has quite the reputation for indestructible durability as Toyota’s trucks. Don’t mess with success In the most inhospitable places on the planet (geographically or politically), you’ll find Toyota trucks, dutifully going about their business. Whether jungle or dustbowl, disaster relief or war-torn pr

The race belongs not only to the swift, but also to those who can go the distance. For Canada’s Gary Robbins, a race-winning ultra-runner who holds course records from Hawaii to Colorado to BC, there was really only one choice of vehicle. I mean, it even has “Runner” in the actual name. “I heard a guy on the sidewalk yelling to his girlfriend

Toyota has released a pair of new TRD models that they hope will help Canadians take on more terrain and go further off road. The TRD Pro package will be added to the 4Runner SUV and the Tacoma pickup for 2017. The 2017 Tacoma TRD Pro is based on the double-cab short bed Tacoma pickup. Underneath is an impressive list of off-road enhancement

Pricing for the 2019 Toyota 4Runner SUV is now released. Changes for this year to the rugged model include a new Nightshade edition, some added TRD Pro features, and a price hike for the base model of $505 to start at $46,155. The Nightshade trim is new this year and adds to the Limited seven-passenger trim. It adds power running boards along

Toyota's given the off-road-ready 4Runner some updates for 2020. They include Toyota's Safety Sense P, Connected Services by Toyota, push-start, and Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. Plus a new trim level. The new trim is called Venture, and it's intended for those who want to venture off-road. It's based on the TRD Off-Road model, which means it

While most are likely to associate Toyota with hybrids and cars like the Camry , the company is also really good at building vehicles that are capable off-road. In that corner of the lineup is the 2021 Toyota 4Runner , which is definitely an older design – it’s been in this fifth generation since 2010, and yes, that is 11 years ago – but i

As far as SUVs go, it doesn’t get much better than the 2020 Toyota 4Runner TRD Pro . The model year is what matters most here, because this newest version makes the old-school off-roader easier to live with than ever before thanks to a few new convenience features that only enhance the 4Runner experience. Styling: 9/10 No version of

On a weekday morning, there is little traffic outside the historic Japanese Language School building, on Alexander Street in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver. Here, in one of the poorest neighbourhoods in Canada, the nearly century-old structure still stands proudly, providing Japanese language and cultural education to many students, including p

Toyota’s 4Runner has been around in its current form for 10 years now, yet its popularity shows no sign of waning, with sales continuing to increase year after year. There are a couple of good reasons for this: First, when it comes to serious off-road SUVs, there are fewer and fewer choices. Second, and more to the point, the 4Runner remains a wel

Car thieves have stolen more than 100 Toyota and Lexus vehicles in the Ottawa region so far this year using a new tech-savvy method. According to the CBC , thieves are using a radio signal booster to increase the signal of the vehicles' electronic key fobs to start the vehicles while they are parked in the owners' driveways. The vehicles are th

Toyota has launched a trio of new TRD Pro off-road ready trucks. The 4Runner, Tundra, and Tacoma get Fox shocks and other off-road ready new features. But that snorkel-looking intake on Tacoma isn't a snorkel. The starting point for the TRD Pro models are 2.5-inch Fox internal bypass shocks. the new dampers are designed to perform in high-speed

Today at the Chicago Auto Show, Toyota unveiled five new special edition models in its truck and SUV lineup. The Highlander gets a sporty new XSE trim, the Tacoma, Tundra, and Highlander get Trail editions, and the Tacoma adds a black-out Nightshade special edition. To make the Tacoma, Tundra, and 4Runner trail-ready, they get some of the same s