Adventure & Overlanding
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The TJ's door handles trace back to 1968 AMC passenger cars -- they, along with the AMC straight-six engine, weren't retired until this generation ended in 2006.
The four-door Wrangler Unlimited took over the lineup so completely that by mid-2017, three out of every four new Wranglers for sale had four doors — on a model once defined by its two-door shape.
The very last Defender built — a soft-top 90 — rolled off the Solihull line at 9:22am on Friday, January 29, 2016.
A rare South African-built Defender 2.8i, powered by a BMW straight-six, hit 0-62 mph in 9.3 seconds — the fastest production Defender Land Rover ever built.
The five-speed manual was dropped from this 4Runner for 2000, the last time any 4Runner was offered with a manual.
A 2007 IIHS report found 13 deaths per million registered vehicle years for the 2003-04 4Runner; only the Astro, G35 and BMW 7 Series did better.
The J70 remains in production at Toyota's plants for markets including the Middle East and Africa, having outlived the J80, J100 and J200 wagons it was launched alongside.
For the FJ40's 60th anniversary, Toyota built a one-off Heritage Edition of this Land Cruiser — just 1,200 units, US-only, and stripped to five seats instead of the usual third row.
The 100 Series was the first Land Cruiser ever offered with a V8 — and Toyota built it specifically to chase North American buyers, who got nothing else.
This Sequoia broke with full-size SUV convention by using a rear independent double-wishbone suspension instead of a solid axle, trading some towing toughness for ride comfort.
Toyota's first Sequoia actually out-sized its own flagship — it launched slightly longer than the contemporary Land Cruiser and bigger than a Chevy Tahoe.