When the Toyota 4Runner hit the scene for the 1984 model year, it combined the rugged utility and underpinnings of Toyota's already established global Hilux pickup truck with the gear-toting and ...

Why it’s regarded as one of the best off-road-ready SUVs Toyota—or any automaker, for that matter—has ever produced. When the Toyota 4Runner hit the scene for the 1984 model year, it combined the ...

From the January 1996 issue of Car and Driver. You can make a sport-utility vehicle out of a truck, but you can't take the truck out of a sport-utility vehicle. That's the rule of thumb for most SUVs ...

Toyota 4Runner generations stretch as far back as 1984, when the first generation was based on the Toyota Hilux platform. It was successful from a sales standpoint - so was the second generation, but ...