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This is hands down the best throwback styled concept vehicle I have seen in a looooooooong time! The first gen 4Runner was always one of my favorites. This concept draws heavily on the styling and looks of the most excellent 1st gen. What do you think the chances are Toyota actually makes this concept a reality? I like what I am reading in that press release but that doesn’t mean much as far as the likelihood of this concept becoming a production vehicle. Link to Toyota press release about this concept.    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The price of liberty and even of common humanity is eternal vigilance | ||
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I saw that yesterday over on one of the 4Runner forums ( link). I'm not sure yet what i think of it. At first pass, it's "holy smokes, that's cool!" Having seen a TrailHunter version of the new Tacoma this morning, my thought turns to, "well, Surf is WAY better looking than that thing!" I'm not optimistic Toyota will make a production version. If they do, I figure it'd be a four-door thing. Frankly, I'd love the old-school removable roof on that beast.  Here's another article, featuring the roof-on picture: https://www.caranddriver.com/n...urf-concept-details/ - - - - Edit: TrailHunter, not TrailRunner.This message has been edited. Last edited by: vthoky, God bless America. | |||
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Where's the hawt half-naked chix? | |||
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On the beach, silly!  God bless America. | |||
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I am waiting for this model.  | |||
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It'll likely be released at minimum as a hybrid (obviously no manual transmission option available) and starting at $60,000. ~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan | |||
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Keep the v6 and 5sp tranny. It would be a winner "Practice like you want to play in the game" | |||
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My first vehicle was almost an 84 4Runner with low miles at an auction in Fort Payne AL in 1998. Unfortunately I was outbid. “Remember to get vaccinated or a vaccinated person might get sick from a virus they got vaccinated against because you’re not vaccinated.” - author unknown | |||
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That crazy TrailHunter I saw this morning was $71k.  God bless America. | |||
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Looks like a cool concept! Pretty sure the Hawt Beach Babes wouldn't be impressed with my 70 year old , hard of hearing, can't see worth a shit , fat ass cruising the beaches though!  | |||
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The way I understand it, a truck can't have a wheelbase shorter than "X", per whatever silly regulations govern that sort of thing. That said, if this otherwise meets criteria of a truck, it may be disqualified from production because of the short wheelbase. I am not sure of this stuff; just repeating things I was told by people who I felt knew more than I. The Jeep Gladiator is an example of the phenomenon. It sure would be nice if they made that thing a little shorter, but they couldn't. | |||
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That's interesting. I wonder if it's related to the rollover issues seen with short wheelbase issues a bunch of years ago. God bless America. | |||
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Yes, give me the "Surf" w/o the rear seats and top, 6' bed, and 6-speed manual please. No car is as much fun to drive, as any motorcycle is to ride. | |||
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Looks like a Chevy Santa Cruz at first glance. | |||
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So, a Tacoma? "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown "The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor | |||
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It's government run amok, Cafe Standards with an insane formula involving a vehicle's shadow or footprint or some such mumbo jumbo. I watched an overly-long vid some time back about it that I wouldn't burden anyone with by trying to dig it up. Bottom line, short wheelbase trucks aren't happening. Set the controls for the heart of the Sun. | |||
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Not sure why, but now the words 'Brat' and 'El Camino' are rattling around my synapses..... | |||
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They did a Land Cruiser, too    The Enemy's gate is down. | |||
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Perhaps this Surf concept is destined to remain only a concept then. That is assuming it would be classified as a truck, and fall victim to the wheelbase requirements of trucks. | |||
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Does Tacoma come as a regular cab with 6' bed and manual transmission? The closest I saw when I looked over a year ago was an Access Cab TRD Sport which is pretty close other than it has street wheels with low profile tires and the fake hood scoop. No car is as much fun to drive, as any motorcycle is to ride. | |||
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