Actual carmakers aren’t big on weird, customized fleet vehicles.

There was no factory option for heated seats (for the US market, possibly for foreign markets), there were aftermarket solutions though. And the Toyota / Garmin part had such low volume that I’ve never personally seen one. The most appealing part was that it was an actual use for that cubby above the steering wheel,…

We started seeing Lexus GX’s at FJ Summit maybe 4-5 years ago, 470's at first and the 460's more these days. I think there were 50 at the last one before covid. For a while they were the secret of the Toyota 4x4 world, but the secret has been out for a while. Lexus brought the GX-OR concept to Summit in 2019:

If you bought a manual 4x4 FJ early (‘07-08), you were able to get them for about $27-28K. I know a lot of people who did. By the end, ~$32K was about as high as the non-Trail Teams sold for.  Dealers hated the manuals because they were harder to sell, fewer people know how to drive them.

I wrote the buy/sell guide on FJCruiserForums and advise dozens of buyers/sellers each year, including people buying them as investments, for free:

I can’t remember if Kurt was one of the Expedition Overland guys that I met on that run or not. I think that’s Clay from EO at the 10:55 mark, basically their group with the Toyota marketing folks joined up with us on that Imogene run at FJ Summit 2018. I don’t think they needed me for the spotting bit :-) just…

I led a bunch of Toyota marketing folks and bloggers on the 2019 TRD Pro photo shoot on Imogene Pass several years ago, you can see me (green shirt, hat) at 12:05 after spotting a TRD Pro Tundra out onto the rock:

One of the leading reasons that people sell FJ Cruisers (and most often buy 4Runners) is because they get old enough to start having kids, and then go crazy with their kids in kid seats in the back of the FJ. The FJ’s rear door hinges at the back, not the front, which means that in a parking lot the two doors form a…

You must not be in the US.

With the 4Runner likely to grow a bit in next gen it’ll probably end up bigger than the lc300 or possibly end up just being reskin of the lc300.

It’s an article about who’s winning in the car auction space, when writing about the Superbowl you don’t mention the 4th (or worse) place team just because the coach used to be a commentator on your network.

The American car-buying public has been conditioned for generations to think that the process of buying a car is to walk onto a car dealership full of cars, pick the one that most closely matches their wants/needs and then argue with an idiot in a suit for 4 hours over how much they’re going to pay for it.

I wonder if DeMuro will be sad you didn’t mention his site here.

If you have a modern car that rarely pops up on Barrett Jackson / Mecum, you know why BaT is superior:

Brother-in-law reserved his on day 1, picked it up 3 months ago for MSRP.

It’s pointless to compare the Bronco this year to the Wrangler: first year, supply chain issues, etc. This is clickbait nonsense.

Since Thursday, wildfires have been raging in Colorado in an area northwest of Denver, between Boulder and the state’s capital.

Question I was asked:

I wasn’t implying that the truck would roll to a stop on I-70 east of the Red Rocks exit, but that the driver had 3-4 minutes of “not barreling down a steep curvy mountain pass” to do something better with his truck than ram it into stopped traffic. If we’ve already established that the driver doesn’t know how to use…

I’ve read elsewhere that his CDL was provisional for just the state of Texas at the time of the accident.  And I’m sure he’s not the first questionably trained truck driver to get put on the road.