Ranked best in it’s class since it was introduced in 2010 (tied in 2018). And the GX470 before that. KBB and ALG also share JD Power’s opinion.

Before we bought our 2016 4Runner, we looked hard at a few CPO GX460s. At the time, the price points were a bit higher on the GX (high $30's), and our 4Runner Trail (AKA TRD Off Road in 2017+ parlance) ended up costing us just north of $35k after fees.

I’m at 357k miles on mine. Wouldn’t have any issues taking it across the country & back tomorrow. 350k is attainable.

They redesigned what? the infotainment? 

Have you given any thought to a GX460? V8, same platform, nicer interior, better gearbox, reasonable depreciation. Higher price point and awful Toy-lexus corporate “predator” grille in the later versions... but a CPO can be had without it.

Shhhhhhhh. If automakers can convince the car-buying public that hatchbacks are CUV’s, maybe more people will buy hatchbacks...

Yeah what blows my mind are fleet-spec F-150 XL 4x2 V6's are pushing the upper $20k-range. The margins must me gigantic on these things.

That 0% only happened on shorter term loans and you’re right, it made a ton of sense. 2 years ago, iirc the rates were in the 3%-4% range for 84 month loans, which over the life of the loan added up to a significant chunk of change vs. the standard 2% or less loan on a more... reasonable... term.

They tried selling us on it, “your CPO warranty will cover you until you’re done financing...” like... that’s not the point. The point is that the farking interest rate was ~1.5% north of the rate for a 36/48 month finance. Yeah, sure, the price was ~$25/mo less... but I can’t believe people fall for that.

Are 96 month loans a thing? Wife & I bought a CPO vehicle in 2016 and when the finance guy listed out the 84 month term numbers on the sheet, I sincerely thought he was having a laugh. It amazed me that 84 months was a thing.

It wasn’t so much my first time driving, as it was my first time driving a stick on a public road. My dad has been trying to teach me for a few days, and was frustrated (I guess?) because I’d been driving manual transmission farm tractors for a few years but couldn’t seem to master our XJ Cherokee.

Up until we bought our 2016 4Runner, we hadn’t owned a Toyota with under 200k miles in probably a decade. I sold my ‘89 4Runner at 260k miles for more than I bought it 5 years earlier. Same with my 280k mile ‘86 pickup.

You made it approximately 2:20 longer than I did. I instantly close youtube videos whenever I hear “it’s your boy...” 

You could do that? Really? I’d shit my pants long before 184 mph.

All I know about TSS I learned from the above article. Your move. (Ignore me, I’m being a jackass, I know this is a very serious topic).

Pouring one out for Gus Mahon. Somewhere on the intertubes there exist glorious videos of Gus & his vans wiping the floor with some V8 muscle. Here’s a recent video of one of his minivans that someone has kept up with after his passing.

These are the best. I came down to the comments section huffing and puffing about how the youths these days don’t remember the supervan craze of the 70's.

Disclaimer: anecdotes abound, and I’m an RX8 apologist. I put 2 engines in my RX8 (1 rebuild & 1 ‘low mile JDM’ blah blah blah). And by the time I sold it, I’d gotten it down to a 4hr R&R job using only hand tools, in my garage, working alone, with a clutch change & retaining working A/C.

Fair enough. The engines themselves are unreliable after around 80k miles or so. But if you treat the engine (the keg, really) as a wear item, it makes it slightly easier to stomach.

Even if she had full coverage, and that full coverage miraculously covered arson, it would only pay out fair market value for her used car that she lost. Which is typically on the low end of KBB fair/NADA trade in.