Similar to we noticed with the 2024 Tacoma, Toyota is all in on factory-fitted off-road and overland {hardware} upgrades. Toyota now provides a “turnkey resolution with a manufacturer-developed overland rig straight from the manufacturing unit” within the 2025 4Runner Trailhunter.
Not solely does this new mid-sized SUV look the half, but it surely additionally has high quality elements upgrades and additions that ought to make it impressively able to actual journey. Let’s dive into what we all know up to now concerning the sixth-generation 2025 Toyota 4Runner in Trailhunter guise.
2025 4Runner Trailhunter Specs
- Powertrain: i-FORCE MAX 2.4L Turbocharged 4 cyl. Hybrid (326 hp, 465 lb.-ft.)
- Dimensions: 112.2″ wheelbase, 194.9″ L / 77.8″ W / 70.8″ H
- Floor clearance: (doubtless) 9.2″
- Tires/Wheels: 33″ (265/70R18) Toyo Open Nation A/T tires on 18″ wheels
- Traction: Selectable 4WD, A-TRAC, Auto LSD, digital rear locking diff, stabilizer bar disconnect mechanism, Multi-Terrain Choose, Downhill Help Management, CRAWL Management
- Angles (doubtless): 32-degree strategy & 24-degree departure
- Security: Security Sense 3.0
- Key: Good Key System w/Push-Button Begin, elective Digital Key (with subscription)
- Screens: 12.3″ digital gauge cluster & 14″ infotainment touchscreen
- Included options: OME 2.5″ Cast Shocks w/ Rear Exterior Piggyback Distant Reservoirs, ARB Roof Rack, Raised-Air Consumption, Rock Rails, Metal Skid Plates, Auxiliary Change Panel, Multi-Terrain Monitor, 20″ LED Gentle Bar, RIGID LED Fog Lamps, 2,400W AC Inverter
- Out there: Fall 2024 (U.S. market)
- Gas economic system: TBD
- Pricing: TBD
4Runner Trailhunter Off-Highway {Hardware}
The (nearly) 33-inch (265/70R18) all-terrain tires on the 2025 4Runner Trailhunter — and TRD Professional — are the most important ever on supply from the manufacturing unit on a 4Runner. They’re particularly Toyo Open Nation A/T tires wrapped round distinctive Toyota Trailhunter 18-inch bronze wheels.
Customized Trailhunter suspension contains Previous Man Emu (OME) 2.5-inch solid shocks with rear exterior piggyback distant reservoirs. The suspension and greater tires mix for an extra 2 inches of raise within the entrance and 1.5 inches within the rear, over the non-off-road 4Runner trims.
Additionally a primary for 4Runner is a Stabilizer Bar Disconnect Mechanism. On the contact of a button on the middle console, you may disconnect the entrance sway bar, which permits for elevated suspension articulation. This can be a very helpful function when the path will get tough and discovering traction will get exhausting.
Talking of traction, the Trailhunter comes commonplace with 4WD and an electronically managed two-speed switch case with excessive/low vary. Additionally commonplace are A-TRAC (Energetic Traction Management), an automated limited-slip differential (Auto LSD) within the rear axle, and a selectable digital locking rear differential.
Sure, not solely does the Trailhunter include a sway bar disconnect, but it surely additionally comes with a rear e-locker. That’s some severe off-road {hardware} to return commonplace from the manufacturing unit. Additionally commonplace are tube-style rock rails and metal skid plates.
4Runner Sizing
As with almost all fashionable automobiles, the 4Runner is rising in measurement. It grew by 3.9 inches in size (to 194.9″) and 1.8 inches in width (to 77.8″) whereas being about the identical top (simply over 70″).
It’s doubtless that the TRD Professional model of the 4Runner will supply the most effective strategy and departure angles, because it does for the Tacoma. However, from preliminary photos, the bumpers look to be comparable and tires the identical between the TRD Professional and Trailhunter. That leads me to imagine that Toyota’s assertion that the “4Runner raises the bar in one other space with as much as 32-degree strategy and 24-degree departure angles” additionally applies to the Trailhunter mannequin.
After all, Toyota isn’t speaking about breakover angle, as it’s certain to undergo, because the wheelbase was stretched. The outgoing 4Runner has a 109.8-inch wheelbase, whereas the 2025 mannequin has a 112.2-inch wheelbase. Inside passenger legroom will little question profit, nonetheless.
4Runner Trailhunter Off-Highway Software program
As with all fashionable automobiles, a number of computer systems will play a component in your driving expertise. The 2025 Toyota 4Runner Trailhunter comes with a plethora of off-road driving aids.
Toyota’s Multi-Terrain Choose system enables you to modify the car’s laptop aids for the situations forward, with settings for Mud, Filth, and Sand. The system now additionally works in each 4WD-Excessive and 4WD-Low.
Sluggish-speed off-road cruise management, which Toyota calls CRAWL Management, is now even smoother and quieter — the final era of the system made some severe noises because it labored. Alongside comparable traces, Downhill Help Management is commonplace, and allows you to set your descent pace down steep sections of path.
One of many sizzling new options previously few years is the addition of quite a lot of cameras on off-road automobiles, which may sew collectively spectacular views of what’s occurring instantly round and underneath your car to show on the infotainment display. This technique, known as Multi-Terrain Monitor by Toyota, is sort of helpful when the path will get tough, particularly while you don’t have a superb spotter.
Oh yeah, the Trailhunter additionally comes with a large 14-inch infotainment touchscreen that dominates the sprint. It needs to be nice for the aforementioned Multi-Terrain Monitor system and navigation methods like onX Offroad that may be run by means of Apple CarPlay or Android Auto.
4Runner Trailhunter Overland Options
Whereas Toyota likes to throw across the phrase “overland” lots, the Trailhunter is de facto simply an accessorized off-road model of the 4Runner. Only a few of the mannequin’s options have any relation to something that might be related to overland automobiles particularly — versus a weekend off-road journey rig.
The 2025 4Runner Trailhunter does get a novel 3/4-roof size platform type roof rack that Toyota says it co-designed with ARB. This needs to be nice for carrying giant journey sports activities gear or a rooftop tent.
A really cool-looking “low-profile high-mount air consumption” helps the i-FORCE MAX powertrain ingest cool clear air. Sure, this snorkel is primarily for retaining the mud out of the engine when convoying down dust roads, and no, it doubtless received’t allow you to a lot when you drive your 4Runner right into a deep river.
You might additionally argue that the grille-mounted 20-inch LED gentle bar and color-selectable RIGID LED fog lamps are overland equipment, as they assist with impediment and animal avoidance when touring.
Preserving all of your devices powered up whereas on the overland path can also be necessary. You get three USB-C retailers within the entrance of the 2025 4Runner Trailhunter and two for the second row. You additionally get a 2,400W AC inverter with a number of retailers within the cabin and one within the cargo space.
Apart from all of the equipment already on the Trailhunter, it’s prepared for much more. A pre-wired auxiliary swap panel permits for the straightforward addition of extra lights, a 12V fridge, a winch, and the like.
Within the cargo space are some built-in facet storage bins on the partitions/wheel wells, that are a cool contact.
Trailhunter Badges In all places
You’re unlikely to mistake a Trailhunter mannequin for some other 4Runner. It has quite a lot of badges — as does the brand new TRD Professional. Not solely do you get the conventional badges on the entrance doorways and tailgate, however you get them on the roof rack, within the headlights, and on the higher management arms. And, that’s all we’ve been proven up to now, however I’ll wager to guess that there might be extra.
