Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Name That Shifter, No. 143: 2007 Toyota FJ Cruiser

Name That Shifter

2007 Toyota FJ Cruiser

Shifter No. 143

On Monday, we presented this week’s shifter and asked you to identify the make and model of the vehicle whence it came. The presence of Toyota’s fairly standard-issue truck shift knob design tipped several of you off as to this shifter’s origin, but the first commenter to correctly identify it as a 2007 FJ Cruiser’s stick was James T. He will receive a Save the Manuals button and sticker as a reward.

The FJ pictures you see here are from Toyota’s press materials, but we pitted one against its off-road-ready SUV competition in a 2006 comparison test. Essentially a Tacoma underneath, the FJ packaged retro looks with tough, proven four-wheel-drive hardware. It placed third in that comparo, behind the Nissan Xterra and Jeep Grand Cherokee—and ahead of the now-discontinued Hummer H3—but we adored its available six-speed manual and plain steel wheels. 

2007 Toyota FJ Cruiser



Source: CarAndDriver

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