Toyota Sequoia

At a glance, the name makes as much sense as some of the ones created by the computer - for example Vitara - although it has the virtue of being a real word, you can look up in the dictionary. But the tree by the name of a truck?

Yes, a Redwood tree, yes, but a really big tree. Sequoia sempervirens or sequoiadendron if you are talking from the giganteum, these are just the biggest living things on the planet. And as you can see, this new Toyota is also great. True, these sports cars is not great. However, Toyota's largest-ever clones of the Chevy Tahoe and GMC Yukon and Ford and General Motors expedition time with considering the dimensions, it is larger than the best ones. And like its namesake, this Sequoia will live only in North America.

Let's go downstairs and be digital. 5.0 out of 203.9 inches, in inches, 0.7 inches shorter than a Tahoe Sequoia more than a long time. From Ford and Chevy have a shorter wheelbase 2.1 inches in length. A bit more narrow and tall it's not the Yankee enemies. All-wheel-drive versions 2.3 inches tall comparing Tahoe, Expedition, 2.6. This is a critical element that determines the minimum height of lumpy Sequoia surprising considering the limit for which soils. Four-wheel-checks drivers controlled the main land and expedition hanging parts between Tahoe and Sequoia for only 7.5 10.6 8.4 inch for inches.

The Ford and Chevy offerings Sequoia the reduction of weights to put into it. Two-wheel drive SR5 Toyota Sequoia 5100 pounds, 5300 pounds heavy but from both of them at the level of lists. Four-wheel-driver, weighs almost 100 pounds less from expedition.

In here somewhere, "Hey, what will happen to the Land Cruiser? This is a very big, isn't it? What's the deal?"

Cruisers, four-wheel drive is described as a large iron Sequoia from about 150 pounds and it weighs less. However, this is not so great. Wheelbase is 5.9 inches shorter, in general, is nearly a foot shorter, the whole inside is quite small and means more. Toyota is not ready to disclose the final price Sequoia although the basic two-wheel-drive SR5 model approximately 32,000 $ and luxe-limited to $ 36,000, we anticipate that the price will start at. Land Cruiser, $ 1.8602 and in 1999 starts in the North at the level of 51.000 sells. Meanwhile, strategists in the years to about 600,000 units, Toyota's full-size SUV market observes. For this reason, Sequoia is approximately 60,000 per year that can build a new facility in Indiana.

In this application, a 4.7 liter DOHC 32 valve V-8 - 240 horsepower and 315 pound feet of torque, a side - Sequoia, Cruiser with little commonality. This new production at the Indiana plant tundra pickup with the front half of the frame area and share start. GM and Ford Pickup Truck-based models, such as Sequoia in the next part of the chassis, cabin seating for eight people including additional structure to support more robust. Unequal-length control-arm front suspension is identical to the tundra's, but the multi-Sequoia backrest-specific.

Toyota's standard, approaching the brain of the system when it detects a loss of control to balance things out, brake and throttle intervention that uses the vehicle skid-control system. Sequoia of four-wheel drive system compatible with current trends, the push button on the instrument panel, although it requires low input and interaction with a slider transfer December is still a separate enclosure, a full-time basis is available. What front and rear differential locks, but the low-middle range of the differential drive, four-speed automatic in gear when it locks automatically. The system is also A-new track (according to Toyota) four-wheel traction control adds; ongoing kind of slippery