Thinking about a Toyota or Lexus SUV? Here's the Full SUV and Truck Lineup Explained
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Toyota's crossover lineup in the U.S. actually starts with the subcompact Corolla Cross, but the compact RAV4 is the brand's bread and butter SUV. The small crossover is a sales behemoth and should continue to be a popular choice as it enters the freshly revealed new generation that arrives for the 2026 model year. This is a road-focused car rather than an off-roader, but it comes with some level of baseline capability that will get most buyers to campsites at the end of tamer off-road trails. Toyota is also offering a Woodland trim level (pictured) with rugged design tweaks.
There's Also a GR-Sport PHEV With 320 HPStarting price: $33,185
The Tacoma is the most affordable of the many SUVs and trucks built on Toyota's popular TNGA-F body-on-frame platform. As a mid-size pickup, it offers both a bed and serious off-road capability in a more reasonably sized package than the full-size Tundra. A huge span of off-road trims, including the range-topping Trailhunter and TRD Pro variants, lets buyers choose exactly what they need based on how they plan to use their truck. A turbocharged 2.4-liter inline-four engine is standard, and a hybrid version of that engine with extra power is optional.
Toyota Tacoma TRD Pro reviewStarting price: $41,315
The Highlander is another crossover, one size up from the smaller RAV4 and equally focused on the road rather than the trail. This is the smaller of two Highlander sizes (the Grand Highlander also on this list is its big sibling), but the pair are technically separate models. It comes standard with three rows of seats and offers the choice of either a turbocharged four-cylinder engine or a hybrid powertrain that delivers better fuel economy.
How the Highlander's Engine Is Different from the Tacoma'sStarting price: $42,185
Toyota's full-size pickup is yet another model built on the TNGA-F platform. The Tundra stands apart from its mid-size brethren with considerable size to match the Ford F-150 and Chevrolet Silverado half-ton pickups. Like its American rivals, Toyota offers both a high-end luxury and a high-end off-road variant of the Tundra to meet different kinds of truck buyers. Nonhybrid and hybrid versions of a twin-turbo 3.4-liter V-6 engine in various output levels are available. The Capstone, the top luxury trim of the Tundra, starts at over $80,000.
The TRD Pro Is a True Bro-DozerStarting price: $42,265
Much like the similar-looking Tacoma, the 4Runner is a mid-size product that has long served as an anchor in Toyota's American off-road lineup. It's also built on the TNGA-F platform. Its place in the brand hierarchy is a little different now that Toyota also offers the Land Cruiser Prado in America, but the 4Runner is considerably less expensive to start, and its wide range of trim levels help it reach a wider range of buyers. It also offers an optional third-row seat, unlike the Land Cruiser. The beloved roll-down rear window stuck around for the newest generation, too.
Toyota 4Runner TRD Off Road reviewedStarting price: $42,355
Yes, this is a different thing from a standard Highlander. Despite some famous insistences made in a 1980s action movie of the same name, there can apparently be two Highlanders. The Grand variant of the Highlander is also a crossover SUV with three rows of seats, but it's a bit larger than its relative, adding some cabin room and cargo space. It also offers a more powerful hybrid powertrain called Hybrid Max that has 362 horsepower.
Toyota Grand Highlander drivenStarting price: $58,195
Although it is called just Land Cruiser in America, the latest generation of the brand's flagship off-roader is actually a smaller SUV known globally as the Land Cruiser Prado. Though Toyota previously sold the full-size Land Cruiser in the U.S. until 2021, that larger model is now offered only in the U.S. as the Lexus LX (found lower on this list). The new Land Cruiser is a two-row, five-passenger SUV, and a third row of seats is not available. Unlike the 4Runner and Tacoma that can be had in cheaper road-focused trim levels, the Land Cruiser is only available as a higher-priced SUV capable of serious off-roading, and it comes only with a hybrid powertrain that uses a four-cylinder gas engine.
Toyota Land Cruiser drivenStarting price: $64,520
The Sequoia is, effectively, the SUV version of the Tundra. That means it packs plenty of capability and comfort, but fewer available trim levels mean that the SUV cannot be had cheap. It also comes only with a hybrid version of the twin-turbo 3.4-liter V-6 engine found in the Tundra. It competes with full-size SUVs such as the Chevrolet Tahoe and Ford Expedition.
Toyota Sequoia reviewedStarting prices: $65,370 (Tacoma), $68,895 (4Runner), $74,605 (Tundra), $82,390 (Sequoia)
The Toyota 4Runner, Sequoia, Tundra, and Tacoma are offered in a special trim level called TRD Pro that includes numerous off-road upgrades. The TRD Pro models are all offered only with hybrid powertrains. These models are pictured here in a special color that's new for 2026 called Wavemaker.
We Compare the Tacoma TRD Pro with the Raptor and ZR2Starting price: $65,685
Lexus, Toyota's luxury division, offers several pleasant luxury crossovers such as the NX and RX that are popular choices. Those are nice, but the really interesting work is being done in the brand's more conventional body-on-frame SUVs. The GX might be the one to have of all the Toyota truck products currently on sale today. It rides on the same TNGA-F platform and shares much with the Land Cruiser. But it offers a potent mix of on-road sophistication, off-road capability, and an all-important V-6 engine not available in the Land Cruiser or 4Runner. It also is available with a third-row seat.
Starting price: $106,950
The LX is the current king of the Toyota truck lineup, a massive and luxurious crown jewel in the brand's slate of TNGA-F–platform products. As the way that U.S. buyers can get the current generation of full-size Toyota Land Cruiser, it is one of the more impressive off-roaders of any sort on the market today. Since this is also a flagship luxury product for Lexus, it is a sophisticated SUV complete with a particularly plush interior. The LX 600 comes with the twin-turbo 3.4-liter V-6, and the LX 700h has the hybrid version of that engine.
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