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Originally Posted by Dieselchessy
It’s not a money thing to me. I always own at least 3 rigs. A diesel tow rig, my wife’s daily, and my daily.
I’ve owned Toyota’s since 2000. Prior to that it was Jeep wranglers.
I shopped over a year to find my current 3rd gen. During that I looked at several fourth gen’s. But just can’t like them.
The third gen is the pinnacle to me. It’s the Intersection of comfort, reliability, utility, maintainability, and size.
2nd gen had a poor 3L motor and too utilitarian. 4th gen is too plush and minivan-ish, and approaching too big.
5th gen is to big, too high tech.
3rd gen 4 runners are like Jeep TJ’s and 03-07 5.9L Dodge diesels. It’s the point just before creature comforts and technology overtook utility.
It’s not an accident my diesel is a 2006 Ram.
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This is a pretty good post.
We bought our 97 new, brought my son home from the hospital in it. We kept it and he ended up learning how to drive in it, later his college rig until I bought him a new car for graduation. Now it's mine again.
Everyone mentions how reliable it is. I guess so, but it's had its share of stuff I'm not thrilled about. But I agree with you, it is a simple machine along with that just has a certain something I cant put my finger on in total.
It's handy, handles well, easy to drive and maneuver on trail and parking lots. It's interior is well designed (except the drink holders lol ) and our seats look as good as when it left the show room. How is that possible?
If I knew my son wanted a different car after graduation I would not have bought a new rubicon JL unlimited. Dont get me wrong the ruby is SWEET and an off road weapon but I would have dumped some money into the four runner and been pretty happy.
Does anyone believe all the electronics on a new rig be it a rubicon or gen 5 arent going to come back to bit you?
TO the OP or someone like him (old thread), if you like the four runner just fix the parts you dont like. If you dont like it, ditch it and find your fun.