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Motor vehicle
Toyota 4Runner
2014 Toyota 4Runner Limited
Overview
Manufacturer
Toyota
Also called
Toyota Hilux Surf (Japan, 1983–2009)
Production
October 1983 – present
Model years
1984–present (US)
Body and chassis
Class
Compact SUV (1984–1995)
Mid-size SUV (1995–present)
Layout
Front-engine, rear-wheel-drive
Front-engine, four-wheel-drive
Chassis
Body-on-frame
Chronology
Successor
Toyota Fortuner/SW4 (Southeast Asia/South America)
Toyota FJ Cruiser (Japan)
The Toyota 4Runner is an SUV manufactured by the Japanese automaker Toyota and marketed globally since 1984, across five generations. In Japan, it was marketed as the Toyota Hilux Surf (Japanese: トヨタ・ハイラックスサーフ, Hepburn: Toyota Hairakkususāfu) and was withdrawn from the market in 2009. The original 4Runner was a compact SUV and little more than a Toyota Hilux pickup truck with a fiberglass shell over the bed, but the model has since undergone significant independent development into a cross between a compact and a mid-size SUV. All 4Runners have been built in Japan at Toyota's plant in Tahara, Aichi, or at the Hino Motors (a Toyota subsidiary) plant in Hamura.
The name "4Runner" was created by copywriter Robert Nathan with the Saatchi & Saatchi advertising company as a play on the term "forerunner". The agency held contests to invent new names for Toyota's forthcoming vehicles. According to Toyota, the "4" described the vehicle's 4-wheel drive system while "Runner" was a reference to its all-terrain capabilities and how it could "run" off-road.[1]
For some markets, the Hilux Surf was replaced in 2005 by the similar Fortuner, which is based on the Hilux platform.
As of 2021[update], the 4Runner is marketed in the Bahamas, Bolivia, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Panama, Peru, the United States and Venezuela. Many markets that did not receive the 4Runner, such as Europe and the Middle East, instead received the similarly designed Land Cruiser Prado, another SUV that shared many of the same components.
The 4Runner came in at number five in a 2019 study by iSeeCars.com ranking the longest-lasting vehicles in the US. The 4Runner had 3.9 percent of vehicles over 200,000 miles (320,000 km), according to the study.[2]
^"Toyota 4Runner History 1984". www.top4runners.com. Retrieved 2023-01-25.
^Blackley, Julie (2019-03-03). "Longest Lasting Cars to Reach 200,000 Miles – 2019 Study Shows Full-Size SUVS Dominate". iSeeCars.com. Retrieved 2019-03-14.
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