Wave Maker! 2026 Toyota 4Runner TRD Pro

The 2026 4Runner TRD Pro in the fantastic Wave Maker color that is exclusive to TRD Pro Toyota truck trims and I love it! Friend of the site Connie Peters reviews the 2026 Toyota 4Runner TRD Pro. Take a look at the video or transcript below to see what she thinks. 
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Kia wants you to believe the EV3 will become its best-selling electric car in the United States. Young Kim, Kia's senior product planning manager in charge of the car, said at the EV3's press drive that the company expects the little crossover to take the crown. When? He wouldn't say.The EV3 has already pulled off the feat in Europe, where it launched a couple of years ago. Kia says it topped the Hyundai Motor Group's electric sales in the region over the first six months of 2026, moving roughl

An original Batmobile from Tim Burton's 1992 "Batman Returns" is crossing the block in Los Angeles on November 23, and the estimate reads like a hypercar price list with an extra digit bolted on. Julien's Auctions and Turner Classic Movies expect it to fetch between $5 million and $7 million, according to the Robb Report. If it lands at the top of that range, Julien's figures it would be the priciest car ever built for the screen.
The Burton-era Batmobiles started life as Chevy Impalas, then go

The first generation Taurus of 1986 launched in four trim levels and offered a wide array of optional extras. Many examples were equipped with one of Ford’s Preferred Equipment Packages (PEPs), that bundled popular options together at a cost savings and made ordering vehicles easier for dealers and customers.To keep the (very high volume of) customers flowing Ford updated the first-gen model a few times over its six-year run, and added a sporty variant and Lincoln sedan along the way. In i

Geely Auto is coming to Canada. The company recently confirmed it will startup Canadian operations and a dealer and service footprint before any vehicles go on sale in 2027. What it won't tell you is which vehicles those will be.For a company staking out a new market, Geely Auto Canada is keeping an impressive number of cards face down. No models. No pricing. No dealership locations. No word on whether its opening lineup leans electric, hybrid, or old-fashioned gasoline. A Canadian team is repo

Robin Warner explores the 2025 Nissan Frontier Pro-4X, highlighting its refreshed design and mechanical features, including the naturally aspirated 3.8-liter V6 engine and Bilstein shocks.  This walkaround covers the updated front fascia, interior technology, bed functionality, and various package configurations available for this model.
Views on Vehicles focuses on new car reviews and news, presented by Robin Warner, a perennial car nut. The reason for the channel's focus becomes cry

Hyundai built an off-road concept bristling with armored body panels, chunky off-road wheels and tires, a lifted suspension, and a full catalog of rock-crawling accessories. The only problem for anyone itching to drive it: it doesn't exist in physical form. The Crater Concept lives entirely inside a video game.Engineers at the Hyundai America Technical Center in Irvine, California, created the Crater to preview the automaker's evolving XRT off-road design language. It's an EV, naturally. Its ru

The Ford GT90 did not arrive like a normal concept car.  No, it arrived like someone at Ford had taken the idea of restraint, placed it on a workbench, hit it with a spanner, and then asked Special Vehicle Operations to build a midengined supercar before anyone from accounting could find the door. 
This was 1995. The McLaren F1 was already out in the world, being perfect and irritatingly clever. The Ferrari F50 was about to arrive with Formula One theatre and an enormous red ego. And

Honda wants to charge your EV while you drive. Not at a stall, not in your garage overnight, but in motion at highway speeds, via induction coils buried in the pavement. On-road demonstration testing is slated to begin April 1, 2027, on a purpose-built road in Japan's Saitama Prefecture.This idea isn't new, and the graveyard is instructive. Qualcomm pushed a version it called "Halo," demonstrating prototype EVs juicing up as they rolled over an expensive stretch of induction-laced road in Franc

It wasn’t that long ago when SUVs skyrocketed to the top of the market, becoming the biggest selling segment in the industry.  It was impactful enough that Ford and General Motors dumped their sedans to focus on filling any gaps in the SUV market. However, after decades of midsize utes being the lead dogs, in terms of sales, the pendulum appears to be swinging the other way.Chevrolet rolled out its new two new small SUVs today — the 2027 Chevy Trax and 2027 Chevy Trailblazer &m

The Samson Switchblade, a 3-wheel, street-legal vehicle that transforms into an aircraft in under 3 minutes.  Built for aviation enthusiasts, Switchblade blends driving and flying with a hybrid drive system, regenerative braking, and even reverse thrust in flight mode. Specs at a glance: 
Drive mode: up to 100 mph, range 450 miles Flight mode: up to 200 mph, ceiling 13,000 feet  Seats: 2 (side-by-side), payload: 575 pounds Category: Experimental (owner builds 51% w

The seven-year car loan is no longer an edge case. According to Edmunds, loans of 84 months or longer accounted for more than 25 percent of new-vehicle financing in the third quarter of 2026, a new record. That's up from 23.9 percent in the second quarter and 21.8 percent a year earlier, per Edmunds. One in four new-car buyers is now signing up to make payments well into the next presidential term.Several financing metrics hit all-time highs in Q3, according to the Edmunds data. The amount fina

Two years after the Type 00 concept detonated across social media in Miami, Jaguar has brought the production car, predictably badged Type 01, to a reveal in New York. The concept's debut got buried under the outrage over the company tossing aside nearly 90 years of heritage. Now there's an actual car to argue about.Order books stay shut until early 2027, and Jaguar says first deliveries won't arrive until the back half of that year, assuming the schedule doesn't slip again. It already has, by

Charging an EV at home is supposed to be about as thrilling as plugging in a phone. One Rivian R1S owner got the opposite experience, and the photos are brutal.Images posted to the Rivian subreddit show an R1S whose entire front end is cooked, plus substantial fire damage to the garage next to it. The Reddit user who shared the pictures said they came across the aftermath while walking the dog, and a neighbor said the blaze broke out while the Rivian charged through an extension cord.
That is a

Industry design trends have left the world with a deficit of cute cars. The modern bias has been to give vehicles a menacing aura, ideally nodding to the model boasting some kind of off-road performance. Despite being known for fielding playful automobiles, Mini has decided to update the Countryman using that exact recipe with the new Untamed Edition.
The crossover receives a set of all-new Pirelli Scorpion All Terrain Plus tires which will be wrapped around 19-inch light-alloy wheels that will

Way back in the last century, the world was facing a multitude of problems, and in order to inspire confidence in Americans, then-President Franklin Delano Roosevelt — a big car fan! — told the country, “The only thing to fear is fear itself.” Fast forward nearly 100 years, U.S. automakers are facing, well, a multitude of problems. However, no statesman is stepping up to assuage the worries of top executives at car companies with a similar statement. In fact, many are po

In episode 148 of Tales From the Beat, Strategic Global Media founder and CEO Scott Merritt and partner Dwain Schenck tackle divisive issues with host/journalist Ed Garsten that include who is a journalist and what is the toughest and most misunderstood job in PR. They also bat around the effects of AI in story pitching and Ed reveals a boo boo he made when he hopped over to corporate PR from journalism. TTAC Creator Ed Garsten hosts " Tales from the Beat," a podcast about the automotive a

The dream of a general-purpose AI that can do anything your phone's chatbot does, including pilot a two-ton vehicle, just got a reality check. Researchers handed frontier models complete control of a Toyota Corolla and watched most of them fail spectacularly before the first turn. Researchers Aditya Ramabadran, Simon Mahns, and Tobias Gessler built DrivingBench, a test designed to see how well off-the-shelf AI agents like Claude, GPT, and Grok handle actual driving. The hardware was borrowed fro

After years of watching vehicle theft numbers climb at a pace that embarrassed insurers and automakers alike, the trend has finally reversed, and the latest figures suggest it isn't a fluke. The National Insurance Crime Bureau's latest data shows vehicle thefts nationwide dropped 21 percent in the first half of 2026 compared to the same stretch in 2025. A total of 268,415 vehicles were reported stolen to law enforcement during those six months, working out to a theft rate of roughly 77.81 per 10

We hope you’re sitting down because Tesla has updated the Model 3 to include an even bigger screen. This has been done in tandem with other changes you probably won’t care about, like giving the Performance trim more power and improved range. Premium models also see some improved zero-to-60 times.
But we know that Tesla buyers care most about their screens, which serve as the true heart and soul of these vehicles. All future Model 3 sedans will soon have the standard 15.4-inch screen

The little Japanese pickups of the 1970s were good trucks, but tended to be short on power. Here's one that got a period-correct upgrade to an engine well matched to the F O R D letters on its hood.I find quite a few Couriers during my junkyard travels, even though the newest ones are '82 models. This one caught my eye due to the red-white-and-blue harlequinized body parts. A closer look showed that this truck was so rusty that it simply wrapped around U-Pull-&-Pay's two-wheels-welded-togeth

General Motors is handing every 2027 EV a Tesla-style charging port, and the flagship electric Cadillac gets a little more than the rest of the lineup.The 2027 Cadillac Escalade IQ and its stretched Escalade IQL sibling drop the aging CCS1 connector for a native NACS port. The payoff at the plug is simple: no more CCS-to-NACS adapter required at Tesla Superchargers or other charging stalls wired for NACS.
There's a catch, and it's the predictable one. Topping up at a legacy CCS station now requ

Aston Martin will build a pure electric vehicle only when the law leaves it no choice. That's the message from CEO Adrian Hallmark, who told Autocar the company sees no demand-side reason to electrify and plenty of reasons to keep pistons pumping. Aston's EV timeline has become a case study in slippage. The brand once promised to reveal an EV by the close of 2025. That slid to 2027. Now Hallmark is talking about a window near the 2035 legislative deadline.
"We only need BEVs to be compliant for

Last time we explored the four trim levels on offer at the launch of the Ford Taurus in 1986. The L, GL, and LX were the mainstays, while the MT5 was the short-lived way to get a manual transmission and the only four-cylinder engine in a wagon format. As noted, options and packages were shifted throughout the early run as Ford figured out what bundling was best suited for each trim. Beyond the standard features and options by trim, there were a bevy of separate à la carte options and grou

Ford CEO Jim Farley isn't betting the company on the North American trade deal that props up its business. Asked about the fate of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, Farley put the odds of an extension at a "50-50 chance."That's not a vote of confidence from the executive who has spent recent months lobbying publicly to keep the thing alive.
The USMCA is currently under review, and the Trump administration is pushing to sharply raise the required level of U.S. content in vehicles built

For the 1981 model year, Isuzu begin selling cars in the United States through its own dealerships. That's the kind of history I look for in the Ewe Pullets of the land, but the early P'ups and I-Marks are nearly impossible to find nowadays. At long last, here's a second-year I-Mark that currently resides in a car graveyard in northeastern Colorado.Other than some onesy-twosy Bellels and Belletts brought into the country during the 1960s, the first use of the Isuzu name on U.S.-market cars came

Scores of top auto industry executives gathered in Detroit at the Automotive News World Congress this week to discuss the multitude of issues automakers and suppliers are facing right now.  Stellantis CEO Antonio Filosa talked about his company’s efforts to address quality deficits. Ford chief Jim Farley talked about the potential impact that China will have in the U.S. if their auto companies can set up shop inside American borders. Affordability, supply chain issues, materials, tar

Antonio Filosa has added "quality" to a to-do list that already included product and profitability, and the company's numbers in that area explain his urgency.Both Stellantis brands eligible for J.D. Power's 2026 Initial Quality Study finished below the industry average of 175 problems per 100 vehicles, according to J.D. Power. Jeep managed 182, good enough to trail 15 other brands. Ram landed at 222, five spots from the bottom.
Speaking with Automotive News publisher KC Crain at the Automotive

The eighth-generation of the BMW 3 Series has been revealed and showcases the brand’s evolved Neue Klasse design ethos.
Originally used to denote a series of novel vehicles BMW launched in the 1960s to save itself from financial ruin, Neue Klasse models were supposed to be forward thinking. They likewise helped establish much of the styling the brand would use over the proceeding decades. Modern Neue Klasse vehicles are also supposed to be looking toward the future while tapping into some

The pitch for a nationwide charging network has always been dressed up as a public good. The top executive at EV charging startup Ionna would like to remind everyone it's a business that needs to make money, or none of this works.Seth Cutler, who runs the eight-automaker joint venture, told The Drivecast that the venture has no illusions about its mandate. "This is a for-profit business," he said, and that business is EV charging. Cutler put the stakes bluntly: "Infrastructure has to be for-prof