2012 Toyota 4Runner Review

Toyota redesigned the Toyota 4Runner for 2010. The truck-based mostly SUV acquired beefier off-highway hardware, new styling in and out, and improved gasoline mileage. Rivals embody the Nissan Pathfinder and Jeep Grand Cherokee.

Rear-wheel drive is customary, with two varieties of four-wheel drive optional. The 4Runner affords up to three rows of seats. Trim ranges are the base SR5, off-highway Trail edition and effectively-equipped Limited.

2012 Ford Focus Sedan

Seems like everybody shopping for a small car now virtually expects to see a forty-mpg ranking on the window sticker. For the reason that 2012 Ford Focus is the poster little one for the Ford Motor Firm's "One Ford" globalized product-development strategy, it's no surprise a particular fuel-sipping trim level of the automotive has been developed: the 2012 Ford Focus SE with Super Gas Economy package. (Whew, everyone calls it the SFE for short.)

Just as with the Ford Fiesta subcompact, the Tremendous Fuel Financial system (SFE) bundle uses low-rolling-resistance tires, an optimized twin-clutch automated guide transmission and aerodynamic tweaks to ship the coveted forty-mpg score for freeway gas economy. While the robust-promoting Hyundai Elantra carries a forty-mpg ranking for each trim degree, most of the competitors in this class presents special models just like the SFE to achieve the 40-mpg standard, together with the Chevrolet Cruze, Honda Civic and Mazda 3.