It's a Tonka Toy…ota! We Drive Tonka's Toyota 4Runner - Car and Driver (blog)
With few exceptions, we tend to focus on new cars here at Car and Driver , mostly OEM automobiles. But we’re happily making an exception for this very-not-stock, very-overtly promotional new Tonka Toyota 4Runner. The 4Runner ’s body is wrapped in matte-black-and-yellow Tonka graphics and has gained serious elevation thanks to a 10-inch lift kit. It’s protected on all sides by Bulletproof-designed welded bumpers, roof racks, side steps, and ladders, while perched on the roof is a folding tent. The rolling stock includes a set of Mickey Thompson 38 x 15-inch tires wrapped around 20-inch Ultra Motorsports Type 250 Colossus wheels that are a full foot wide. The space between those fat knobby tires and the wheel arches affords prime viewing of the King 8 x 2. 5-inch and 10 x 2. 5-inch coil-overs and shocks, as well as various beefy Bulletproof suspension pieces. Our short drive took place inside the Big Sky Movie Ranch in Simi Valley, California, where we found that the 4Runner’s largely untouched 3. 5-liter V-6 engine couldn’t exactly press us too hard into the custom reupholstered seats. Then again, when we pushed around our Tonka toys in the sandbox at five years old, we never imagined them going very fast. The giant tires giving us confidence to just steamroll everything we could find, we got the feeling that the 4Runner could simply trounce everything in its way. Source: blog.caranddriver.com
