The Toyota 4Runner Turns 40!
September 16 2022, Jeff Keeping
Forty candles. The "big four-0." The Toyota 4Runner will reach the 40-year mark with the 2023 model year. Toyota is offering a distinctive 2023 4Runner 40th Anniversary Special Edition to celebrate.
Appropriately, Toyota will make 400 of these special editions available for the Canadian market. Over the past four decades, the 4Runner has carved out its place as the ready-for-anything SUV at home on city pavement or the woods trail.
The 2023 Toyota 4Runner 40th Anniversary Special Edition is based on the SR5 grade and will be available in three colours: White, Midnight Black Metallic, and Barcelona Red Metallic. It will stand out from the lineup thanks to bronze-coloured 17-inch alloy wheels, a body-colour-matching TOYOTA heritage grille and a bronze-coloured 40th Anniversary exterior tailgate badge.
The biggest eye-catcher is likely to be the heritage graphics package created especially for this anniversary model. The first 4Runner was built on the Toyota pickup platform, which itself founded the heritage of Toyota's outstanding success in off-road racing. As an homage to those early racers, the 4Runner 40th Anniversary Edition will wear some cool, retro-inspired yellow/orange/red body graphics.
The anniversary theme continues inside, where the 4Runner 40th Anniversary Special Edition gets exclusive badging on the centre console and features a bronze-coloured cross-stitch shift knob, bronze-coloured seat stitching, 40th Anniversary floormats and a 40th Anniversary logo on the Black SofTex-trimmed seats. Topping it off is a standard power moonroof.
The 2023 4Runner 40th Anniversary model is genuinely a birthday gift for anyone who purchases one with all of these unique features.
Fun facts: When the first 4Runner arrived, "Star Wars: Return of the Jedi" was the top-grossing movie in America, and "Every Breath You Take" by the Police had ended the year at #1 on the Billboard 100. (Yep, that was when "Jedi" was the third Star Wars movie, not "Episode Six.”)
About Toyota Canada Inc.
Toyota Canada Inc. (TCI) is the exclusive Canadian distributor of Toyota and Lexus vehicles. Toyota has sold over six million vehicles in Canada through a national network of 287 Toyota and Lexus dealerships. Toyota is dedicated to bringing safety, quality, dependability and reliability to the vehicles Canadians drive and the service they receive. TCI's head office is in Toronto, with regional offices in Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal and Halifax, and parts distribution centres in Clarington and Vancouver. Toyota also operates two manufacturing facilities in Canada. Having produced more than nine million vehicles, popular Canadian models built at these facilities include Toyota RAV4, Toyota RAV4 Hybrid, Lexus RX 350 and RX 450h hybrid, and Lexus NX 250, NX 350 and NX 350h hybrid. The company has sold more than 19 million electrified vehicles worldwide and is Canada's number one seller of electrified vehicles.
