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Article: Dwindling Appeal? Toyota's FJ thrills some, riles others.(News)
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- AutoWeek
- Article date:
- January 1, 2007
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Byline: JONATHAN WONG
Throughout its first three months in the AutoWeek fleet, Toyota's FJ Cruiser began to win over staffers who initially opposed the throwback SUV: It proved a comfortable long-distance traveler, capable cargo hauler and crowd-pleasing attention getter. In fact, there is no place you can go in terminally hip Southern California without seeing FJs in droves; have they supplanted the Mini Cooper as the must-have iconic conveyance?
However, these high points were not enough to prevent some sour emotions from emerging during the second quarter of our "ownership.'' Complaints on the Cruiser included blind spots, inconvenient suicide doors ...