Comments like this on the transmission have been mentioned elsewhere in this forum, but I have never had any issues with it. Seems very smooth to me.
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Mine very much is too, except under certain conditions. In bumper to bumper or parking lot speeds it gets searchy like it dose not know what gear to be in. It is a minor annoyance and sport mode it does not do it, if I choose to spend more money on gas to avoiid the annoyance.
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You know, yes. Obtaining the 4Runner I wanted, options, trim, color, was the most frustrating and time wasting experience I've ever experienced purchasing a vehicle. Just give me what I want. The allocation process isn't customer friendly unless you're one to just buy whatever they have and you just want "a" new 4Runner.
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I've only test driven, but I test drove four of them, a Tacoma and a LC 250 and put more than 100 miles among them in every conceivable situation I could imagine and I also didn't notice anything odd. I hope I experience the same with mine.
Interesting. I am in Southern California, so definitely experience bumper to bumper and parking lots a fair amount--but even in those circumstances, in ECO all the time, I have not noticed any issue. Maybe the hybrid system helps?
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ECO mode is probably more likely the difference than the hybrid...but maybe.
Interior lighting would be the primary changes I would make. I dislike the size of the gas tank, but a toyota engineer could convince me it was a necessary compromise. There is no reason that the entire cabin should be lit with three tiny LED lights.
because the hybrid motor was never designed that way in the BoF vehicles. if you want a prius hybrid type go get a unibody vehicle from toyota.
i-force max hybrid (BoF) vs the regular hybrid setups (unibody)
and if you are driving a BoF vehicle you are not really concerned about mpg for the vehicle's intended purpose, if you are then you technically bought the wrong vehicle
and a BEV is not a very smart choice when off roading or overlanding or long stints away from a charger.
- A rear wiper that actually clears a useful amount of water
- AC vent in cargo area (for dogs)
- Blindspot audio warning (my other cars have had this)
- matching full spare (its a 60+k car, you can afford another 20" rim).
- liftgate operation with rear window open
- Fold flat seat. We lost this so that they can sell a few with 3rd row. Keep that in the highlander.
- Sure a 21/22 gallon tank would be a nice to have
- Rain sensing wipers on more trims than just the Platinum. How a Limited doesn't have this is head scratching. In fact, not sure why the Platinum really exists (never even seen one yet). They should have just had a blacked out limited and kept the HUD and rain sensing wipers on the limited. Besides that, they are identical.
That's about it for me after almost a year of owning mine
- AC vent in cargo area (for dogs)
- Blindspot audio warning (my other cars have had this)
- matching full spare (its a 60+k car, you can afford another 20" rim).
- liftgate operation with rear window open
- Fold flat seat. We lost this so that they can sell a few with 3rd row. Keep that in the highlander.
- Sure a 21/22 gallon tank would be a nice to have
- Rain sensing wipers on more trims than just the Platinum. How a Limited doesn't have this is head scratching. In fact, not sure why the Platinum really exists (never even seen one yet). They should have just had a blacked out limited and kept the HUD and rain sensing wipers on the limited. Besides that, they are identical.
That's about it for me after almost a year of owning mine
My sister bought a Prius. I asked why and she said that she didn't care how ugly it was, it was just a mode of transportation.
I asked her if she bought her clothes at Goodwill. She said hell NO. I said why not? They will cover your body and keep you warm just like the expensive ones. Very functional and cheap.
Adding my name to the "flat folding rear seats" crowd. It's absurd that the 4Runner is basically the premier camping and overlanding vehicle but Toyota can't figure this out while Jeep and Honda have.
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My two biggest gripes are:
1) A bigger fuel tank. I was on dead empty with 0 miles of range on the computer... 16.6 gallons. Even if you could use the whole 19 gallons, that's pretty small for a rig intended to roam the great wide open.
2) A button to turn off all the nanny tech for off roading. You can do it by system, but you have to cycle through a bunch on menus on the display. I invariably forget one and end up with it screaming at me.
1) A bigger fuel tank. I was on dead empty with 0 miles of range on the computer... 16.6 gallons. Even if you could use the whole 19 gallons, that's pretty small for a rig intended to roam the great wide open.
2) A button to turn off all the nanny tech for off roading. You can do it by system, but you have to cycle through a bunch on menus on the display. I invariably forget one and end up with it screaming at me.
They DID figure it out. On the 5th gen.
Then they said "nah...nobody likes fold flat seats" and came up with this idiocy for the 6th gen.
It's not the worst though. The 4Runner is bad, but the Sequoia is agressively awful. Like "how can we make this bad for any perceived use? Can we use cheap flimsy material while we're at it? GREAT! SHIP IT!" Then some executive asshole signed off on the idea.
Those people shouldn't be let near design tools ever again. But some of them probably got promotions. Hell, some of them probably got a bonus and some type of internal award before being moved the 4Runner redesign team.
^^That lives rent free in my head and I think of it every time I get a little worried that I'm out of my depth at my job
lol that was my biggest issue with the tree, that storage arrangement makes the 4runner look down right brillant.
and dont get into a pissing contest with a grand highlander in storage space vs a tree. the tree gets chopped down easily.
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