Thanks for posting your 2 week review. Anxiously waiting on my 21 TRD Pro to arrive end of Feb or beginning of March. Trading in a 20 Subaru Crosstrek. I thought the Crosstrek would do it or me and it's great around town and on easy dirt roads. One problem is the 1500lb tow capacity and 200lb tongue weight. Sometimes I carry a motorcycle and mc+carrier=350lbs. Was going for a Bronco but delays and extra cost for the Bronco steered me to the 4Runner. Looked into new Jeep 4xe too but decided to let others beta test that model I think the 4Runner will be perfect for my needs. Look forward to a lot of fun times with it!

Nice! The waiting is no fun, but you're going to love it. I put down a deposit on mine in October, and it arrived mid-January after being held up at the port for more than a month.

Nice, like I said in the post above, I had a long wait too, but it was worth it. I thought about a Bronco as well, but I started to get a little lukewarm on the design, and I needed a vehicle before 2022 anyway. And I've had my eye on 4Runners for decades. Couldn't be happier!

100% agree with the OP's perspective. I got my Lunar Rock TRDP 2 weeks ago also, and just crossed the 500 mile mark.

At first fill up, my fuel gauge was misreading but that seems to have been corrected by the dealer with a software reset. Otherwise all is functioning great as to be expected.

We got about a foot of snow last night and this morning, the truck was phenomenal.

Couldn't be happier.

That's a good one. My first car, the car I grew up in and bought from Dad, was a 1967 VW Type III with a whopping 65 bhp. Air cooled, underpowered, 4 speed manual and all the weight in the back. That formula will teach a kid how to actually drive.

Definitely made the right decision! I consider this Bronco to be a first edition model because it has been so many years, and just like headlights, you never get Gen 1. You got something already proven because you know Toyota did the bare minimum these last few years lol. Possibly since the 5gen came out.

That Xterra had a 4.0 V6 too, right? Interesting that it felt more powerful. Was the Xterra a lighter vehicle overall?

Congrats on the Venture — another great model.


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Nissans have great throttle response with its VQ variants, from the 350z/ Altima/ Maxima/ to Infiniti and beyond. As you creep over the 100k mark, the brittle interior and sensors remind you how much of your soul was sold for that peppy response. Don’t ask me how I know. Lol

-Former reformed Nissan-fanboy

Congrats OP! It’s hard to compare a new toyota truck, but the beauty of them comes a few years after ownership, when you fire it up and it still as tight as the day you rolled it off the lot.

This 4Runner is my first Toyota, I have about half a million miles on a Nissan Titan and a Nissan Xterra with no mechanical issues (that werent self-induced, LOL) I agree that the interior in the Nissans doesnt hold up. The seat on my Titan looked like a Doberman chewed it up, at about 200k. I had worn a spot on the door and on the console where my elbows rested. But, I knew whenever I went out and turned the key, it was gonna start and always run strong. I drove my Titan from Colorado to Montana and hunted for a week, miles from nowhere, when it had over 200k miles on it..
I really am impressed with the higher class feeling interior of the Toyota. Overall, the "fit and finish" just feels so much better.

I also still have 200k Nissan with no major mechanical issues. It comes with a permanently installed ODB scanner and no one is allowed to ride in it. I need to keep the interior intact lol.

I like hearing about the Nissans! Back in the 90s, my friend had a first generation Pathfinder that we drove around in the mountains in Wyoming. That or a 4Runner would have been my dream car at the time. It was so disappointing what Nissan eventually did with that line. So glad Toyota preserved the 4Runner until it was time for me to get one.

Actually, at first I wondered whether I was doing the right thing getting a 4Runner with the 6th gens right around the corner. And then, remembering the Pathfinder's ultimate fate, I decided I probably couldn't go wrong getting this 4R while they're still making them.

One of the main decision points for me was that the 4runner has been around so long, relatively unchanged. The hope is it gives them time to work out all the issues, and enough people have them that you are going to easily be able diagnose most any problem with some google searches and youtube vids! For a brief second, the thought of a new Bronco was dancing in my head, but I just could not bring myself to be the guinea pig for a Ford! I put way too many miles on my vehicles, in way out of the way places, to be worried about breakdowns and failures.

Just traded my 2018 sr5p for a 21 trdpro.lunar rock. Love this truck. Everything that was irritating me about the 2018 is fixed now....

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I got excited about the Bronco for a minute last summer but moved on from that pretty quickly too, for several reasons. I drove my mom’s first gen Explorer for a year when it was just a few years old. It was a capable vehicle, and I enjoyed driving it. But it was in the shop three or four times that year for just dumb stuff. Never had a car that bad in that way before or since (all my other cars have been Hondas or Subarus, and now the 4R).

I’ll be excited to see new Broncos on the road. My first favorite truck was an F-150 I got to drive around all summer for work when I was in high school. But every time I think about getting a Ford, I think of that Explorer.


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Nice. I never drove any earlier years, though I've ridden in a few. What were the fixes for you?