Long-term test cars

We’ve driven our long-term 2025 Toyota 4Runner hybrid nearly 15,000 miles, and we’re averaging 20.2 mpg — well less than the EPA-estimated combined rating.

Our long-term 2025 Toyota 4Runner TRD Off-Road Premium features part-time four-wheel drive and all-terrain tires — neither of which are best for truly snowy, icy on-road conditions.

The multimedia system in our long-term Toyota 4Runner works well enough overall, but user-interface and smartphone-connectivity issues prevent it from being class-leading.

Have the cooler (and sometimes frigid) temperatures since our August update done anything for our long-term 2025 Toyota 4Runner hybrid's efficiency?

A 600-mile road trip for Thanksgiving was an opportunity to discover the strengths and weaknesses of our long-term 2025 Toyota 4Runner TRD Off-Road Premium test vehicle.

We've been charged more than $2,000 for charging our 2024 EV9 since we bought it, but thanks to 1,000 kilowatt-hours of free charging, our total bill is closer to $1,700.

It took us more than a year and nearly 20 charging sessions to use up the 1,000 kilowatt-hours of free charging we received with the purchase of our 2024 Kia EV9.

We’ve picked up a few minor blemishes in the finish of our long-term Toyota 4Runner, so we polished them out with a ceramic paint-correction product.

We recently took our long-term 2025 Toyota 4Runner TRD Off-Road Premium out for some higher-speed dirt-road driving as well as low-speed sand crawling.

One of the neat features of our long-term 2025 Toyota 4Runner TRD Off-Road Premium is its removable JBL Flex portable Bluetooth speaker, but is it any good?