2007 Toyota FJ Cruiser

What Edmunds.com says If you never go off-road, you'll like it; if you always go off-road, you'll love it. Pros Superior off-road ability, comfortable and supportive front seats, retro styling that captures the spirit of the original. Cons Limited visibility fore and aft, rear-seat entry hindered in spite of reverse-opening doors. What's New for 2007 An old nameplate makes a comeback. The 2007...

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The FJ concept displayed at the Detroit show in 2003 differed dramatically from other Toyota show cars, according to Toyota chief engineer Akio Nishimura. Normally, he says, Toyota show vehicles are developed with the idea that they could one day become production cars. But the FJ was a design study from Toyota's Calty Design Research facility in California intended purely as a follow-up to Rod...

The 2007 Toyota FJ Cruiser is a nostalgic car, styled after Toyota's FJ-series Land Cruisers from the 1960s. Although the FJ Cruiser makes Toyota's second compact SUV (the RAV4 being the other) this vehicle is aimed at a younger, more aggressive driver who intends to take his car off-road. The 2007 Toyota FJ Cruiser is available in automatic and six-speed manual. The automatic comes in both a...