Can we please discuss the fact that Toyota is completely and entirely delusional in thinking that they can sell a vehicle that came out in 2007 and has not had a major update since then for half a hundred grand? If you get 4WD on the base SR5 trim, the price shoots up to $57,000!
Keep in mind that gets you an interior that looks like this!
Suppose you want a sensible Limited trim model with 4WD. Before options that is $63,000! And you don’t even get the kinda maybe passable interior of the top of the line trim!
Keep in mind that if you want a Platinum trim, you still have to pay extra for 4WD, letting the price go from $66,000 to $69,000 (nice).
And for all that money, you get this.
And it’s not as though the exterior is much to look at either.
This has got to be one of the most boring ways possible to spend dang near 70k on a blobby bloaty boat.
Just look at the other SUVs and CUVs Toyota sells. If you discount the ludicrously priced Land Cruiser, you’ve got the 4Runner starting at $36,000 and the comparable Highlander starting at $34,000. A RAV4 starts at $26,000 and the hybrid versions of these vehicles aren’t all that much more.
And those get you a vehicle that isn’t a nearly 15 year old relic of a time we’d probably not want to relive just yet.
Even the Tundra that the Sequoia is based off of starts at a shockingly high price.
Why on God’s green earth would you buy a Sequoia? Somehow 10,000 of them were sold last year! Someone please explain this to me. They’re not stylish, they’re not efficient, they’re not luxurious, they’re just surprisingly large utility vehicles that will last as many miles as you need them to while getting terrible mpgs.