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Join Date: Jan 2021
Location: Idaho
Posts: 610
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Join Date: Jan 2021
Location: Idaho
Posts: 610
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What would you like to see in a 6th gen?
I wished ( I get the business case, it’s about what sells, not what’s ideal but a guy can dream….) they made a genuine off-roader dimensionally similar to a 3rd gen like said above. Package protected for 35” tires and tire chains right out of the box. Protection for rear departure like a commander underneath. Disconnect sway bars like a bronco or rubicon. Lockers front and rear like a bronco. Solid axle would be nice, but won’t happen. Given the wrangler sales though, I think a good case can be made for this rig. Bonus if they model it after a can am and make it like a factory long arm if IFS.
Power in the 320-350hp range. Pump gas premium, Rear swing tire mount like a surf. Keep the lift gate. Fatty gas tank. 10 speed auto, but the first two or three are grannie lows only used in 4 low or off-road modes. Get the crawl ratio somewhere between 80-100:1 and it would be sorta like having a 3 speed T case. World class bilstein suspension and control it with TRX style shocks/electronics, totally solves the jounce stop issue. Weight around 3-3500 lbs would be awesome. I know everyone wants to tow a gajillion lbs, but what’s the point? Keep the tow number to 5k or less. Reality is people use trucks to tow, not suvs. Honestly, I think they should model it more toward the wrangler use case. I think they’ll sell way more. Or keep their 5th gen size as one model, and make a smaller 3rd gen sized special edition and call it the Pro Runner or something.
I’m tired of how bloated modern vehicles are. Good hell they are wide and heavy. Take the rav4 type shell and give it a frame for all I care. I know the mall crawler and Dutch bros coffee crowd want 10 feet of room in the cab just to put an 8 foot wide center console to swallow it up like a ford superduty, but I want a 64”-66” at the cab width rally deluxe machine with 450-500 miles of range off-road.
I’d love to modernize from my 3rd gen, but what I want doesn’t exist. I have a super hard time getting excited about a 5-6k lb vehicle. People will buy fun vehicles. Bronco and Wrangler prove that. Bronco is going to be a grocery getter, it’s roomy and all, but it still has the fun under pinnings. It’s about time that Toyota take the fun vehicle idea to the next level.
Off-roader rally deluxe, 330hp, 3rd gen dimensions, all the suspensions,,,,,,,, profit…..
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99’ Black “Highlander” sport, oak, 5VZ auto, 4.30 axle, e-lock, 265/75 Grabber X3,, Bilstein 6112 (2”) front 5160 rear shocks, OME 2906 springs, Durobumps, 4x Inovations front middle rear skid plates, 4XI square TRD tube sliders, lil skips tank skid, lotus dev RCA skids, overland custom sway bar links, Amp’d hidden winch, warn Vr Evo 10s
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