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Has anyone here (real person on this forum) actually taken delivery of a new 6th gen???

Discussion in '6th Gen 4Runners (2025+)' started by cuse93, Jan 23, 2025.

  1. Jan 23, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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    cuse93

    cuse93 [OP] Ice Station Zebra

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    i'd love to hear some real first impressions from new owners versus all the clueless YouTube attention whores
     
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  2. Jan 23, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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    Dillusion

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    I got the bestest idea.

    Test drive it.

    A lot of opinions on here are clueless and biased as well. Just saying.
     
  3. Jan 23, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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    cuse93

    cuse93 [OP] Ice Station Zebra

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    I'm just looking for a new owner's first impressions. Someone who spent their hard earned money on it and has it parked in their driveway. That's a big difference between a journalist's assessment or a youtube/influencer's impression.

    i definitely would like to test drive one. Only because i'm a car guy and i'm curious. There is absolutely zero chance that i'd ever buy one.
     
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  4. Jan 23, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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    I dont think you can fit a 12 point buck in the back anymore? Unless you take the rear seats out?
     
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    What do you own now?
     
  6. Jan 24, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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    my daily driver is a 5th gen ORP
     
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    Schlappesepple

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    12 point? Where I live? I'd tie that bitch across the hood.

    Major concern in buying a new vehicle: what if I bag a monstrous deer, and can't fit it in the back in one piece?

    Nevermind all the blood and shit all over the inside of my new $60k truck.
     
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    I'm curious as well. I have no intention of buying one but I'd like to see a 5th Gen owners honest reaction.
    A 1 to 1 comparison would be interesting to watch. Both on road and off road.
     
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    Id hang with it.....

    (2018 here also)

    But do you....
     
  10. Jan 24, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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    Seems like to me, that will take time. Not just driving it off the lot and parking it.
     
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    I should say,.. from what I've seen. I'm staying CLEAR away from a "new gen" anything from Toyota for now, and will put another 150k miles on my 2018. The new stuff, brings nothing i want or care for. Hard, hard pass here.
     
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    And this is exactly why OP created this thread, to get uninformed opinions from people who couldn't give two shits about the new model. (Except follow it enough to bash it).
     
  13. Jan 24, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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  14. Jan 24, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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    Steely123 What's the new trend? I'll do it!

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    LOL, you 2 know each other?
     
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    (It was sarcasm)
     
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    I asked to be called for a test drive, when the dealership that I go to receives their first unit….but that won’t be until later next month! I’m not holding my breath on what the salesman tells me though, hyperbole!
     
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    add a hitch cargo basket for more meat transport!

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  18. Jan 24, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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    lol, sorry. That went over my head
     
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    I’ve never hunted anything but birds, but I’ve heard that in some places deer hunters can contract with a service that will give them a gps tracker. When the animal is dispatched the tracker is activated and left with it. Then some younger and fitter folks arrive on quads and fetch the carcass back to the butcher, and finally the butchered meat is delivered to the hunter at his lodge, hotel or home, prettily wrapped in butcher paper and packed in dry ice in styrofoam coolers.

    Edit: well maybe not exclusively birds. There were some rabbits that were skinned and eaten on the edge of a dry lake bed at sunset.
     
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    That sounds incredibly lazy, doesn't really sound like "hunting" to me.

    Anyway, my local dealer is showing a '25 SR5 in Underground on the way, I'm looking forward to test driving it.
     
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    So strange that someone who currently owns a make / model of a given vehicle, is totally in love with it but immediately will rule out buying a future generation of the same make and model for no reason. As the current owner of a f-150 with no problems ever I would be foolish to say I would never buy a new gen one in the future. You also don’t see me on the 25 f-150 message boards bashing new models. To each their own I suppose but it’s small pee pee behaviour.
     
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    Local dealer shows an incoming 2025 in Ice Cap, $44K+ price tag exed out.
     
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    It’s not strange at all to rule out a new generation of vehicle. For example take the nissan pathfinder from one year to the next.
    IMG_6047.jpg

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    It’s silly to be married to a brand. If the next generation is a different car, then it’s a different car…to be judged on its own merit.

    Car manufactures will do their best to make you think that you want what they’re selling, and you get to decide if you’re buying it.

    eta: that said, at a certain point, beating a dead horse won’t make it any more dead. Lots is not what we wanted for a 6th gen, but at least the 6th gen is a BoF vehicle and makes some claim to be a stouter vehicle than most. At some point we’re gonna have to let the 6th gen folks get some experience with the vehicle, and give it time for Toyota to tweak the car.

    It can be argued the 5th gen took 20 plus years to get the reliability/durability reputation it has. We will know in 10 or 15 years if the 6th gen is it’s equal.

    I’m betting it won’t be, but I can guarantee that if the 6th gen makes it past a decade of production, there will be sadness and gnashing of teeth when the 7th gen comes.
     
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    Not married to the brand but if I owned a perfectly reliable model of a vehicle I certainly would give that company/model the benefit of the doubt on the next go around. Not just immediate assumptions about power train and vehicle quality. The same people that complain about lack of soft touch materials in new models will back up their lack of tech in their gen by saying it’s reliable and durable. So are hard plastics.

    The new 4Runner is unmistakably a 4Runner though. From the recognizable rear end to the automatic rear window and rear side quarter panel design. After the fact sure, looking at pathfinders in hindsight you can make judgements on power trains etc. But to think that they were just supposed to keep the new gen looking exactly the same is not realistic.
     
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    I get what you're saying since I know there's often a negative knee-jerk reaction to each new generation here and I'm sure the tone will be rosier whenever a 7th gen comes around in 15 years but things change all the time and (increasingly) not necessarily for a better product especially recently.

    If I loved the limited-slip-center 4WD that was in the last couple years of the 3rd gen and the entirety of the 4th gen, I'd have to pay extra for the Limited (and up) trims of the 5th and 6th gens to get that feature again.

    If you buy a 2021+ F-150 with the 5.0, you now have a wet oil pump belt. It hasn't proven "unreliable" so far like the infamous 1.0T has but that's already a few-thousand dollars plus in additional work required at somewhere 100-150k miles (it's buried in there, timing components all have to come off) now required that wasn't there before, for zero customer benefit.

    (also notable are the LM2 diesel where that job is a transmission-out one, the Ford 2.7T, etc.)

    But I get it since you do specify "for no reason", I'm just taking the moment to bitch about how there's always some new sneaky landmine trying to be put past us consumers each time.
     
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    The pathfinder change was significant, it didn’t need hindsight to form a judgment on the model year differences. One year it was a body on frame 4x4, the next year it was a unibody crossover with front wheel drive architecture. It wasn’t changing the looks, they became different types of cars.

    The 4runner, I agree that Toyota is branding it as being the same type of vehicle it was before. It may work out to be ok. But even if it does, there are plenty of changes that can be criticised. Personally, I think they should be criticized, if toyota is interested in making products people will buy.

    I’ll admit though, I have old fashioned ideas about consumer feedback to guide product development. That may be a thing of the past, especially since marketing and media technology makes it so easy to convince people that piles of shit are absolute gold. In that case, Toyota will make what they want and tell us to like it. I’m speaking theoretically…because I don’t have the money to buy at the lofty prices their asking for these things.
     
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    That's because Ford still offers a NA V8 in the F150 like they always had since around 1948.

    If Ford eliminated all V8s that many customers have come to expect, you can bet some long time buyers will have strong opinions about it.

    And there is always that one guy who feels the urge to publicly obsess about other guys' body parts due to his own insecurities. LOL.
     
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    Wrap it up Soprano style in a small tarp. Always worked for me.
     
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    Why? If they take away the parts of the vehicle that made it great and then charge significantly more for it you should be unhappy.
     
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