The 2025 Toyota 4Runner is HERE! First look

welcome to extra throttle house I'm

Thomas and I'm James and this is the

allnew Toyota 4Runner was that a drum

roll uh I didn't time it very well no

you didn't but it's very exciting it is

because we've been we've been submerged

in Toyota Land recently and much

actually we helped the guys from the

main throttle House channel just filmed

an adventure with the new Land Cruiser

that's coming out soon it is very

exciting we can't say how it drives No

but we can say say that this he's very

similar to it in many many ways it's

it's brother it's sibling it's it's

brother in in off-road funny funest well

done James thank you for coming out um

so well this this was a such a confusing

point for me for so long I was so

nervous that they were going to build it

on the platform of the Highlander or

something and like sport Bronco sportify

it yeah the reason the reason that's the

case is because previously the Lexus GX

and the 4Runner were the twins yes and

now the Land Cruisers come along and

it's made it triplets right because we

saw what the Land Cruiser was going to

be which since the Land Cruiser wasn't

like a bigger thing like the Lexus LX

the Land Cruiser was kind of like a Land

Cruiser Proto which is like the smaller

lighter Duty one that's confusing

because the 4Runner kind of used to be

that smaller lighter Duty Land Cruiser

thing it held that space But then they

brought out the Land Cruiser and it was

kind of like a 4Runner then they brought

out the 4Runner and it was kind of like

a 4Runner so they're kind of like the

same so here's the good news they

haven't neutered the 4Runner not at all

apart from in one way oh because now

there's no six-cylinder oh this can be

optioned two different ways there is the

I force which is just a normal gas

powered four cylinder yep and then

there's the I force Max which is what

the TRD Pro and the trail Hunter and the

top trims get yes like the

Tacoma it also in some ways is a more

dedicated off-roader than the Land

Cruiser which feels weird to say yes

yeah it's very confusing how the whole

thing works basically this is like a

Land Cruiser underneath but it's like a

Tacoma in the front end in the interior

yes and the drivetrain which is also

like a Land Cruiser right but the land

the Tacoma is longer than this this is

the same as the Land Cruiser in the GX

as the wheelbase as the wheelbase right

but you get big nobly Ties on this you

get all the funky suspension options

that you get with the Tacoma like the

old man new shocks on the trail Hunter

which is also by the way an entirely new

trim for the 4Runner and it's awesome

we'll talk about that more in a second

but this is the TRD Pro this is TRD Pro

so we got Fox shocks this is the Bara

build yes they kind of split them right

before the TRD Pro kind of had to do all

the Overland and the off-road stuff and

it had to do the Baja stuff they said

screw it let's make two so now we've got

the trail Hunter which is like your

Overland uh there's there's like an air

compressor kind like a Land Cruiser yeah

yeah almost like a Land Cruiser I feel

like we got a bit ahead of ourselves we

did let's just talk about the way it

looks the first time we've seen it yes

you just come stand here and if you if

you just focus on this little bit right

here and you can't see the back of the

cab you'd go it's a Tacoma Tacoma it

looks like a Tacoma and that's not a bad

thing no cuz a Tacoma is a good-looking

truck yeah we got we got the light bar

here we've got these fog lights here

which I think are clear on the TRD Pro

but they can be had in Amber on the

trail Hunter and we saw a trail hunter

in the Everest color which looked Wicked

absolutely and that with Amber fog

lights I feel like is super mean and

looks off the market but it's from

Factory yeah what color is this this is

uh

mudbath what a great name it's just it's

another cement but no no no but it works

on this you get away with it because

like any of the tan or like kind of like

muddy colors on these off-road trucks

look so good I'm obsessed with that have

you noticed I'm talking about it a lot

but it works for this spec cuz this is a

spec that will have inevitably a mud

bath it's already had a little bit of

one yeah so we got these 33in Toyo Tires

y again way more aggressive than what

you can get on the Land Cruiser so we

were trying to categorize what this is

in our in our heads of like who how do

you decide between this or the trail

Hunter of this versus The Land Cruiser

because they both benefit from the I

force Max they both have similar

horsepower and torque numbers well one

way is that the Land Cruiser comes with

full-time four-wheel drive it has that

Center locking differential which can be

not locked so you can drive it all-wheel

drive all the time you can't do that

with this this just has you know the the

four high four low rear locking

differential and the sway bar disconnect

okay so this is more heavy duty but

potenti potentially not as Street

friendly yeah not Street friendly every

day yeah okay yeah exactly and and if

you get the four cylinder this we

haven't got prices yet but if you get

the four cylinder of this it will be

cheaper it starts cheaper than the Land

Cruiser right who knows if the TRD Pro

and the trail Hunter don't have price

yet surpassing the Land Cruiser yeah but

this is this has one of our favorite

things that's now lost on modern

vehicles doesn't it a window that goes

down oh I'm so happy they did not get

rid of this and you can control it from

the back yeah there's a button there I'm

sure you have to have it unlocked or

something but this looks great doesn't

it this actually doesn't look that much

different but it says the TRD Pro window

that goes down this little little wing

here they I just I think it just doesn't

disappoint it doesn't disappoint at all

in any single way it's a 4Runner it's a

4Runner but you know we owned a 4Runner

okay we had a V8 we thought that was

really cool it was I've sold it but we

bought that for

$6,700 yeah it was great when it lasted

yeah so we're four-runner fans and I

think that remains to be the case uh

should we have a look in the in the

inside let's have a look on the inside

yeah

okay okay it's very cool in here it's

very it's but again it's more rugged

like having is definitely more rug we

just got out of the Land Cruiser and

that feels sensible it feels sensible

and simple this feels like really like

styled we've got this big Toyota badge

on the thing here and you know all the

colors are different in the different

Trims and what you get like the trail

Hunter looks very similar to this but

the limited looks different speaking of

limited I do need to caveat one

thing a full-time four-wheel drive is

available in a limited trim right but

not in the TRD or the trail Hunter right

okay yeah some of the premium Street

trims yes get it okay one thing that

this doesn't get I and I know this is

mostly tried to have fun one of the most

exciting things about the new Tacoma

Pro are those isod dnamic seats yes

which are not available in this they

don't come on the 4Runner cuz the

4Runner is made in Japan whereas the

Tacoma is made in America and Americans

have more fun than the Japanese

apparently I don't want to get involved

you guys want to fight out exactly but

yeah um this has got pretty much

everything you'd possibly need I really

like this selector by the way I've been

using it like to select four low four

high two high you like push this in turn

that's pretty neat you can hear it doing

its thing down there right it's got all

the drive modes obviously crawl mode all

that stuff he steering wheel big toy

badge JBL sound system JBL sound

system this is going to cost money this

is going to cost isn't it it's going to

cost money foreigners have always been

expensive and then you look at this one

and how cool and new and fancy it is

like right away you could assume it's

going to be pricey I really like how

they've kind of split the purpose of the

different forerunners even more clearly

now like for example in the trail Hunter

you get an air compressor to you know

lower your tire pressures for

off-roading and rock crawling and that

sort of thing right it's built into the

car but both of these since of the I

force Max get the outlet in the back oh

that's fun okay just like the Land

Cruiser yes which did we use that on our

trip we did we did we had a cooler

plugged into it that's s not a cooler a

fridge we did I don't remember the trip

that we just did yesterday yeah cuz it

was such a blur it was a blur that's

going to be ex exciting yes uh we tried

the back seats of this I fit perfectly

as 510 Harrison 6' 6 doesn't not quite

enough headro no okay I guess this is

sort of that midsize yeah size yeah it's

not full full size is it

yeah I don't know this is this is a

really cool and very excited honestly

yeah I was worried I lost sleep over it

I was concerned that it was going to be

as I saw the Land Cruiser I'm like that

looks like a for Runner but now we have

this and it's like a Land Cruiser I yeah

I think the I but this is I force Max

yeah and we haven't tried ey Force Max

yet yeah apart from we have in the Land

Cruiser and we're about to try it in the

Tacoma right

yes basically well done James we have

tried the a force ma he said it was a

blur remember yeah on extra throttle

house there is about to be a video after

this video of the Tacoma TRD Pro which

is not too different to this you know

same engine same interior yes and that's

the I force Max right so make sure you

watch that on extra throttle house right

and I'm not we're the cool ones I don't

know yeah but I'm not in that I'm not in

that video you're not in that video it's

just you that's right that's why it's

better you see all right so here's my

question for you because when it comes

to to off-road stuff you know we had the

V8 we had the old 4Runner mhm the

technology doesn't change that much like

putting good shocks on an old vehicle

can do a lot can do a lot it can do a

lot so if this comes out the TRD Pro and

it's like 55 60 Grand

mhm what are you getting what are you

what's improved like we got this big

screen which is a lot more Square than

the Land Cruiser yeah we got digital

gauge cluster obviously I guess lighting

technology has come along way there's a

lot of cool lights in the front the rear

tail lights look cool in these are the

stripes also I'm going to guess

efficient is probably a thing untested

to be fair but like I I can tell you

from experience our V8

4Runner it wasn't too good on fuel no no

and you can imagine that a hybrid

four-cylinder will probably be better on

fuel but do you think people are going

to be disappointed about the full

cylinder I don't know maybe maybe a

little bit because like well what did we

just see go oh Tacoma went by us on the

highway and it it had the V6 in it and

it made a great noise he had like an

exhaust on it or something right so so I

mean if you're bar Harring you want

excitement and drama and to be fair I

mean especially in things like the trail

Hunter you're going for longevity long

distances and I don't know unproven

reliability is basically what I'm saying

remains to be seen however Toyota hybrid

engines have been reliable in the past

so one can assume the Toyota thing has

happen nor a turbocharged or

turbocharged hybrid seems scary yes but

but we'll see we'll see yeah if anyone

can do it I think Toyota probably have a

good chance yeah yeah the question now

is GX versus 4Runner verus Cruiser

they're all so

close I honestly don't know the answer

to that question maybe we will answer it

in the Land Cruiser video which I don't

remember what we said because as you

said it was a blur all right so but the

good news is not a Highlander with with

a four-runner badge yes exactly

potentially very serious

off-roader this looks like it's going to

be pretty great

yeah

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