Hello guys, my name is Tiago, I have 32 years old and I'm living in Portugal at the moment.
I'm reading on this forum for quite awhile now (maybe for 4 months), because we are trying to move to Canadá, since I'm a car guy, the first thing that I research was cars.... So here I'm, introducing myself.
The matter that brings me here is the reliability of this 4Runner, and I'm asking this because in Portugal (I would say in Europe) there is no 4Runner model. So I have no clue if this car is any good, and what kind of problems I'm looking for if I buy one, or when I'm looking for one what kind of troubles I need to search for!
I'm thinking on buying a 4th gen from 2005/6 v6 petrol.
Bear in mind that is the first and only car I (when I say I, I mean us, me, my wife and my 2 year old boy) would have in Canada for 2 or 3 months after I arrived, so it will need to be reliable, have a good MPG, be reasonably comfortable, loads of space and a 4x4 jipe. I already discard some possibilities like the Jeep grand cherokee for a few problems well known on this part of the ocean, The Range Rover because it has a low MPG, the Mercedes R class it has a lot of problems on the reliability department and it is not a jipe (my wife want one... so), the VW Touareg it has a few problems of reliability on the electrics.
Feel free to correct my English, I would thank you on advance to do so.
Feel free to argue with any mistake on my ideas, and if you think there is another way to go, please tell me.
Cheers
I'm reading on this forum for quite awhile now (maybe for 4 months), because we are trying to move to Canadá, since I'm a car guy, the first thing that I research was cars.... So here I'm, introducing myself.
The matter that brings me here is the reliability of this 4Runner, and I'm asking this because in Portugal (I would say in Europe) there is no 4Runner model. So I have no clue if this car is any good, and what kind of problems I'm looking for if I buy one, or when I'm looking for one what kind of troubles I need to search for!
I'm thinking on buying a 4th gen from 2005/6 v6 petrol.
Bear in mind that is the first and only car I (when I say I, I mean us, me, my wife and my 2 year old boy) would have in Canada for 2 or 3 months after I arrived, so it will need to be reliable, have a good MPG, be reasonably comfortable, loads of space and a 4x4 jipe. I already discard some possibilities like the Jeep grand cherokee for a few problems well known on this part of the ocean, The Range Rover because it has a low MPG, the Mercedes R class it has a lot of problems on the reliability department and it is not a jipe (my wife want one... so), the VW Touareg it has a few problems of reliability on the electrics.
Feel free to correct my English, I would thank you on advance to do so.
Feel free to argue with any mistake on my ideas, and if you think there is another way to go, please tell me.
Cheers
