2WD vs. 4WD 4Runners, really?
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Here is a thought for all of you to consider. What you drive to get off-road to places no one else would venture to, you most definitely need a 4x4. If however you want to drive an SUV that has an excellent reputation (build-wise and engine-wise) then in MHO, there is nothing wrong with driving a 2WD 4Runner.
When I was in high school, I learned how to drive with a 1970 AMC Hornet. After one year of driving that car around, I wound up with a 1974 Dodge D-200 2WD truck. Both vehicles I owned during the terrible winters of 1978 to 1980 in the Chicago area. 70" of snow. And I mean a lot of snow. Drifts over 8 feet high in some alleys. I never got stuck, and like many others who drove around that area, I hardly ever saw 4x4's driving around.
I did however see many RWD cars, trucks, vans, and especially state troopers who still to this day drive mostly Crown Vics and or Chargers. Now maybe the Chargers have AWD maybe not, but the point I am making is this: If you are just going to drive to work everyday and sometimes use the vehicle to get to the back woods cabin on gravel or dirt roads, a 2WD vehicle should suffice.
Any 2WD vehicle. So owning a 2WD 4Runner to me makes sense. And as others have written, a 2WD 4Runner can still do alot of things that normal lower to the ground vehicles can not. Add in great Toyota reliability and owning one of these makes sense.
What about all of the service vehicles you see driving around? The UPS and FedEx trucks, any service vehicle, like repairmen. What are they driving? 2WD vans and trucks. And yet they can get around just as easy in the snow as anyone with four wheel drive can.
Only if you are driving over the mountain to Telluride or driving up the hills at Moab or any other heavy-duty off-roading do you really need four wheel drive.
:yield:
Here is a thought for all of you to consider. What you drive to get off-road to places no one else would venture to, you most definitely need a 4x4. If however you want to drive an SUV that has an excellent reputation (build-wise and engine-wise) then in MHO, there is nothing wrong with driving a 2WD 4Runner.
When I was in high school, I learned how to drive with a 1970 AMC Hornet. After one year of driving that car around, I wound up with a 1974 Dodge D-200 2WD truck. Both vehicles I owned during the terrible winters of 1978 to 1980 in the Chicago area. 70" of snow. And I mean a lot of snow. Drifts over 8 feet high in some alleys. I never got stuck, and like many others who drove around that area, I hardly ever saw 4x4's driving around.
I did however see many RWD cars, trucks, vans, and especially state troopers who still to this day drive mostly Crown Vics and or Chargers. Now maybe the Chargers have AWD maybe not, but the point I am making is this: If you are just going to drive to work everyday and sometimes use the vehicle to get to the back woods cabin on gravel or dirt roads, a 2WD vehicle should suffice.
Any 2WD vehicle. So owning a 2WD 4Runner to me makes sense. And as others have written, a 2WD 4Runner can still do alot of things that normal lower to the ground vehicles can not. Add in great Toyota reliability and owning one of these makes sense.
What about all of the service vehicles you see driving around? The UPS and FedEx trucks, any service vehicle, like repairmen. What are they driving? 2WD vans and trucks. And yet they can get around just as easy in the snow as anyone with four wheel drive can.
Only if you are driving over the mountain to Telluride or driving up the hills at Moab or any other heavy-duty off-roading do you really need four wheel drive.
