Road Test: FJ Cruiser
Newsweek, September, 2006 by Tara Weingarten
The next time I cruise through Kenya, I know exactly which truck I'll take: Toyota's new retro-style FJ Cruiser. I mean, just look at this thing--if it could speak, its mother tongue would be not Japanese but Swahili. From the outside, it takes the best boxy design cues from the old Land Cruiser.
You know, the one from the '70s that carried macho safari guys. But most of us live in the city, and maybe it's not an ideal choice for our urban jungles. At 71.6 inches high, it's so tall that when I entered a city-owned parking lot in Los Angeles, the roof rack scraped the ceiling and broke. Not good. Well, at least the FJ Cruiser handles well. My six-speed manual tester has good ground clearance for uneven terrain, four-wheel-drive to get out of muddy situations off-road and a...
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