With the abridgement 'FJ' and so the give-and-take 'Cruiser' you lot have undoubtedly already created a sectionalisation; on i side fans of the muscular petty SUV and on the other side people who would rather not come across one, let solitary drive one.

It is divisive – although certainly not the but car to split opinions - only it's likewise a auto that has its own big fanbase, a automobile which although surviving only nine years from its inception around 2005 until 2014 has managed to stick around.

Also a capable car, this 4x4 from Toyota was quirky and forward-thinking in its design, and features and came with a squeamish 4-liter vi-cylinder gasoline engine making 250 hp and 280 lb.-ft of torque.

With inspiration coming from the old FJ40 Country Cruiser in more ways than ane, the FJ Cruiser had its life cut short simply luckily a new one that was saturday dormant institute a home concluding twelvemonth.

The FJ Cruiser Sold As Just One New Example In 2021

Toyota FJ Cruiser - side View
Via Mecum Auctions

Talking of quirks and features, the FJ was featured in one of Doug Demuro's YouTube video reviews, and in it, you tin come across that he's a fan.

It's not difficult to see why, with the chunky and divisive styling and plastic cladding, the huge rear B pillar behind the tiny rear suicide-doors, and the iii windshield wipers at the forepart like an plane.

As Doug points out, the styling is a little hit-and-miss just taken in its entirety makes sense to people who want something capable, bold, and, well a trivial unlike to the other drab modest-to-mid-size SUVs out in that location including the RAV4 for case from the same visitor.

As Toyota revealed its sales figures retrospectively for the final year, we can come across that of the 2 million vehicles sold new by the Japanese automaker in 2021, the FJ Cruiser was one lonely unit, a ghost auto which finally rolled out of a dealership somewhere some vii years later it was delivered from the factory.

It'due south worth mentioning that along with the four.0-liter engine came a 5-speed automated or 6-speed manual, you could fifty-fifty become a pitch/ringlet gauge and compass built onto the dashboard and a reversing camera in the rearview mirror.

The FJ Cruiser Was A Skillful Machine In A Flawed Time

Toyota FJ Cruiser Dashboard
Via: Cnet

The market might take taken a little time to warm to the idea of the FJ Cruiser when information technology was starting time new – although the SUV market place was in full swing, the recession would have put a large-size dampener on its hopes from 2008 onwards when purses and wallets were feeling the squeeze.

Every bit the SUV market place continued to have over the automobile world even later the FJ was discontinued in the US, it was still being manufactured in Nippon, and used models held onto their value back in the US, similarly to how State Cruisers e'er come with a hefty price tag even when they've been used and - hopefully not – abused.

Doug's video from 2019 shows a snippet of some used examples asking for circa-38,000 Us dollars for belatedly-model cars with low mileage.

A quick expect now on Edmunds brings upwards a long list of 45,000-dollar cars with effectually 50,000 miles on the odometer, this seems to be the tendency on other sites similar US News and Autotrader.

30,000 dollars gets you lot into a car with fourscore,000-100,000 miles on it and if you are willing to have on an FJ Cruiser with 150,000 miles under its belt – remember it has that bullet-proof Japanese engineering – you might only have to pay effectually 10,000 dollars.

For at present, we have the 4Runner for our muscular SUV cravings, or if you lot want to turn things upwards a piffling – and if you like the FJ Cruiser y'all are probably i of those people – the TRD-Pro series of 4x4 vehicles being offered by the Japanese car-maker.

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