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As far as best-selling workhorses are concerned, the American car market is divided into just two slices, despite playing with three segments as far as pickup trucks are concerned – full-, mid-size, and compacts.
As always, the Ford F-Series is again America's favorite large truck – thanks to the F-150 and the Super Duty series – during the year's first quarter. The sales reports also included Toyota's Tacoma retaining its mid-size truck delivery crown despite a huge drop in anticipation of and throughout the slow market release of the N400 version. Last but not least, the most beloved small truck remains the unibody Ford Maverick compact pickup – and it didn't have much competition from the Hyundai Santa Cruz.
So, the situation is relatively stable in terms of workhorse pickup trucks, and Toyota doesn't have much to fear from its classic rivals because the N400 will surely take flight during the other three quarters. However, it seems that the Japanese automaker is not exactly willing to let things slide in the SUV field – and starting this fall, they will have no less than three off-road models on offer, tiered one above the other in terms of pricing.
In case you didn't catch the N400 Tacoma drift, these TNGA-F body-on-frame siblings are the 2024 Lexus GX 550, the most expensive of the bunch, the returning to America 2024 Toyota Land Cruiser with vintage styling, and a $56k starting price, plus the newly introduced all-new sixth generation 2025 model year 4Runner, presumably the cheapest of the bunch and also the one with an option for seven seats onboard. As such, you're presented with a hard choice if money is no concern, right?
No worries, how about giving up on empiric results and guiding yourself via an arbitrary element like 'Which one looks better with ritzy, humongous aftermarket wheels?' Well, if you had that conundrum, the imaginative realm of digital car content creators helps solve the problem. More precisely, Nikita Chuicko, the virtual artist better known as kelsonik on social media, probably thinks now is the right CGI time to play digitally with Toyota and Lexus' mid-size SUVs.
As such, his unofficial design projects are embedded below, focusing on the 2025 Toyota 4Runner, 2024 Lexus GX 550, and 2024 Toyota Land Cruiser. The 4Runner TRD Pro is solely presented with new concave aftermarket wheels dressed in black and chrome for a posh atmosphere; the 2024 Lexus GX 550 also features a lowered suspension setup plus four new colors along with almost the same styling for the deep aftermarket wheels, and the 2024 Toyota Land Cruiser packs a black roof in addition to the enlarged 'shoes.'
So, which one is your potential all-time favorite off-road SUV from Toyota or Lexus, and why?
So, the situation is relatively stable in terms of workhorse pickup trucks, and Toyota doesn't have much to fear from its classic rivals because the N400 will surely take flight during the other three quarters. However, it seems that the Japanese automaker is not exactly willing to let things slide in the SUV field – and starting this fall, they will have no less than three off-road models on offer, tiered one above the other in terms of pricing.
In case you didn't catch the N400 Tacoma drift, these TNGA-F body-on-frame siblings are the 2024 Lexus GX 550, the most expensive of the bunch, the returning to America 2024 Toyota Land Cruiser with vintage styling, and a $56k starting price, plus the newly introduced all-new sixth generation 2025 model year 4Runner, presumably the cheapest of the bunch and also the one with an option for seven seats onboard. As such, you're presented with a hard choice if money is no concern, right?
No worries, how about giving up on empiric results and guiding yourself via an arbitrary element like 'Which one looks better with ritzy, humongous aftermarket wheels?' Well, if you had that conundrum, the imaginative realm of digital car content creators helps solve the problem. More precisely, Nikita Chuicko, the virtual artist better known as kelsonik on social media, probably thinks now is the right CGI time to play digitally with Toyota and Lexus' mid-size SUVs.
As such, his unofficial design projects are embedded below, focusing on the 2025 Toyota 4Runner, 2024 Lexus GX 550, and 2024 Toyota Land Cruiser. The 4Runner TRD Pro is solely presented with new concave aftermarket wheels dressed in black and chrome for a posh atmosphere; the 2024 Lexus GX 550 also features a lowered suspension setup plus four new colors along with almost the same styling for the deep aftermarket wheels, and the 2024 Toyota Land Cruiser packs a black roof in addition to the enlarged 'shoes.'
So, which one is your potential all-time favorite off-road SUV from Toyota or Lexus, and why?
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