New off-road SUV will embrace a hybrid engine

Toyota Motor revealed a brand new 4Runner SUV for the primary time in almost 15 years — finishing a current redesign of the automaker’s present vans and SUVs.

Other than its new seems, that are much like the just lately redesigned Toyota Tacoma pickup, the 2025 4Runner shall be supplied with a hybrid engine for the primary time in addition to new “Platinum” and “Trailhunter” high-end trims.

“This all-new 4Runner has unbelievable versatility and functionality that properly rounds out our truck household,” Dave Christ, Toyota group vp and normal supervisor, mentioned in a launch. “We have offered over 3 million 4Runners over the previous 40 years, and this sixth-generation mannequin provides a cool new look and unbelievable options but retains the rugged type and functionality our prospects love about this journey icon.”

Toyota’s “truck household” is also referred to as the “5 brothers”: the Tacoma and Tundra pickup vans and the 4Runner, Land Cruiser and Sequoia SUVs. The 4Runner is the final to be redesigned and constructed on Toyota’s international truck platform, which debuted with the Land Cruiser and Tundra in 2021.

Toyota mentioned pricing of the 2025 4Runner shall be launched nearer to its on-sale date. Beginning costs for the 2024 mannequin vary from about $41,000 to greater than $55,000.

Whereas Toyota is thought for its fuel-efficient autos such because the Prius, its bigger “brother” SUVs, together with the 4Runner, had a lot worse gasoline scores previous to being up to date — at 17 mpg mixed or much less, in response to federal scores. The present 4Runner has been on sale, with some updates, since 2010.

Toyota mentioned miles per gallon scores for the brand new 4Runner shall be launched nearer to the car arriving in showrooms within the fall. Toyota’s different redesigned vans and SUVs have notably improved gasoline economic system.

Jack Hollis, government vp of Toyota Motor North America, final month advised CNBC that the corporate continues to steadiness out its truck and SUV portfolio, together with potential hybrid, plug-in hybrid and all-electric fashions.

“These brothers, all of them have loads of similarities, they usually have loads of variations,” he mentioned. “How will we curb carbon emissions quickest with everybody, in all places? It is having the correct mix between these 5 merchandise.”

The 4Runner’s obtainable hybrid engine is a turbocharged 2.4-liter engine with a 48-horsepower electrical motor built-in into the eight-speed transmission to supply as much as 326 horsepower and 465 foot-pounds of torque. The car’s commonplace turbocharged 2.4-liter engine produces 278 horsepower and 317 foot-pounds of torque.

The 2025 4Runner shall be supplied in 9 fashions: SR5, TRD Sport, TRD Sport Premium, TRD Off Highway, TRD Off Highway Premium, Restricted, Platinum, TRD Professional, and Trailhunter.

The brand new Trailhunter mannequin options extra off-road styling and gear together with rock rails and excessive energy metal skid plates, whereas the Platinum mannequin is geared towards extra comfort and luxurious options.

Manufacturing of the 2025 4Runner is going down at Toyota’s Tahara plant in Japan.

Correction: The 2025 Toyota 4Runner is the primary new model of the autos in 15 years. A earlier model of the article misstated what number of years it had been.