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A 600-mile road trip for Thanksgiving was an opportunity to discover the strengths and weaknesses of our long-term 2025 Toyota 4Runner TRD Off-Road Premium test vehicle.
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We've been charged more than $2,000 for charging our 2024 EV9 since we bought it, but thanks to 1,000 kilowatt-hours of free charging, our total bill is closer to $1,700.
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It took us more than a year and nearly 20 charging sessions to use up the 1,000 kilowatt-hours of free charging we received with the purchase of our 2024 Kia EV9.
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We’ve picked up a few minor blemishes in the finish of our long-term Toyota 4Runner, so we polished them out with a ceramic paint-correction product.
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We recently took our long-term 2025 Toyota 4Runner TRD Off-Road Premium out for some higher-speed dirt-road driving as well as low-speed sand crawling.
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One of the neat features of our long-term 2025 Toyota 4Runner TRD Off-Road Premium is its removable JBL Flex portable Bluetooth speaker, but is it any good?
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The 2025 Toyota 4Runner Hybrid has an impressive 22.9 cubic feet of measured cargo space that is among the largest in its class.
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The all-new 2025 4Runner hybrid is EPA-rated at 23 mpg combined, but how has ours performed after our first 5,000 miles of driving?
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The 2025 Toyota 4Runner, takes an off-road-oriented, yet civilized, approach to hauling people and stuff, but how does it stack up for families?
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We’ve owned a 2025 Toyota 4Runner TRD Off-Road Premium for two months, and it’s already had its first service visit for two issues: a leaky moonroof and a broken front air dam.