More of the Same for Toyota's Well-Regarded Minivan
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10 months and 20,179 miles - 2008 Toyota Tundra Work truck? Oh, yeah.
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Three Days in the Valley: Hunger, Death, and the Search for the Most Capable, Least Compromised Off-Roader
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8 months and 14,650 miles - Photographer (and avid motorcyclist) Julia LaPalme previously filed a complaint about the Tundra: "I can't fit both my motorcycles in the bed and close the tailgate."
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Entry-level 'utes for the unwavering urbanite -- Art St. Antoine, Ed Loh, Scott Mortara, Julia LaPalme, and I are going to need some seriously distillated java-juice to shake off our lunch-induced stupors and formulate some conclusions about these cars. Cars? Those would be the five compact SUVs we'
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Toyota's RAV4 is perhaps the compact 'ute we'd most eagerly recommend to just about everybody - but ourselves.
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6 Months and 10,842 miles - Senior editor Ron Kiino recently commandeered the largest-in-fleet Tundra for a big-time move.
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4 months and 8471 miles - With the $92.37 5000-mile service in its rearview, our 2008 Truck of the Year continues to soldier on.
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This is a now huge category (one that didn't really exist 10 years ago) with prices all over the map.
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Toyota has a winning formula right now: take every competitor's measurements in the segment and make a vehicle that beats it in each category.
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Admittedly, this segment of the auto industry hasn't been getting much love over the last few years. Prices of full-size pickups have been so competitive, salesmen are slotting buyers into bigger, stronger, more capable vehicles, sometimes for the same money.
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We've arbitrarily designated SUVs with a wheelbase over 106 (actually 106.3) inches as midsize SUVs, which makes this the largest chart we've ever assembled. In fact, there are so many entries, we've chopped this category into three separate winners.
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Snow Mobiles: Which Full-Size Sport/Ute Is the Best of the Bigs? With the price of crude oil hovering around $100 per barrel, certain auto analysts are once again questioning the existence of the large SUV. And why not?
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Like its namesake, Toyota's Sequoia is big. Surprisingly, though, at 205.1 inches long, it's stubbier than some of its competition.
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It's big enough for eight (or five adventurers with gear), stout enough to cross a forest, strong enough to pull a sizeable trailer, and has a new Platinum trim level: It's the all-new, second-generation 2008 Toyota Sequoia.
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Had the chance to get some good miles in this vehicle when shuttling between the Chicago auto show and SEMA spring expo in Indianapolis.
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Meet the world's first turbo-hybrid. Yup, that's what I said -- turbo-hybrid. Borg-Warner Turbo & Emissions Systems takes Toyota's popular first-gen hybrid SUV to the next level of performance only to prove that hybrids do have a place amongst the tuners.
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When the all-new 2008 Land Cruiser creaked up onto our weight scales, it instantly earned itself an ignominious new name: the Land Crusher.
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It's easy to imagine the Highlander as a student who's been cramming for this exam for years, its guidance counselors scrutinizing our Sport/Utility of the Year criteria to find any opportunity for improving their scores. And improve them it did.
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Let this serve as notice that the Detroit Three are not unique in their propensity for bad timing. With the 2008 Sequoia, Toyota fails here, too.
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Many vehicles float in and out of the Truck Trend and Motor Trend long-term fleets, and occasionally, one slips through before we get a chance to fully acknowledge its abilities and strengths.
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For 50 years, the Land Cruiser has been Toyota's icon, the rock-solid off-roader leading its SUV lineup.
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The 2008 Sienna is powered by a 266-horsepower 3.5-liter V6 engine, making it one of the most powerful family vans available, as well.
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Grade-school parking lots all over the country are crying out for something different. Minivans and full-size SUVs litter the landscape: Siennas, Odysseys, Suburbans, Expeditions. But some may want a more stylish, more efficient choice.
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For this final round, the stakes were raised: A 6.0-liter-powered GM with a towing package is the most direct comparison to the Tundra with the 5.7, and we added weight in two forms. Ding, ding! Cue the ring-card girls.
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