Interesting 4Runner fact

Year No. of Models Sold
2019 131, 864
2018 139,694
2017 128,296
2016 111,952
2015 97,034
2014 76,096
2013 51,625
2012 48,753
2011 44,316
2010 46,531
2009 19,675
2008 47,878
2007 87,718
2006 103,086
2005 103,829
2004 114,212
2003 109,307
2002 77,026
2001 90,250
2000 111,797
1999 124,496
1998 118,4684
1997 128,496
1996 99,597
1995 75,962
1994 74,109
1993 46,652
1992 39,917
1991 44,879
1990 48,295
1989 36,927
1988 20,880
1987 3,635
1986 5,564
1985 5,495
1984 6,498

This is kinda interesting facts about how many 4R were made!
1987 was the lowest production
year. 3,635 being made.

 

Cool! Wonder what’s up with 2009?

 

Probably the switch between the 4th to the 5th gen

 

Looks like 2020 was 129,052

1998 was a big year ;-D

 

https://www.goodcarbadcar.net/toyota-4runner-sales-figures/

 

Fallout from stock market crash that happened 3 months before. I didn't realize my 1998 4runner was 1 in 1 million, I feel like there should be way more out there still

 

I’m not sure if that is a miss print or what or they didn’t get one quite done for 1998 kinda high compared to the rest of the years I think someone had fat fingers. And the media is also know for false facts! Lol

 

Oil Industry, and Auto Industry (and many others) cratered at this time, gas prices surged crazy high, it was called "The Great Recession". I worked at a brokerage house at the time, it was not a financially happy time.

 

doh, of course. Makes perfect sense

 

"Annual sales of the 4Runner continued in the six-digit region for long. However, the post-2007 oil crisis, which witnessed high fuel prices, saw the demand for 4Runners decline. Annual sales reached a nadir in 2009 when Toyota moved only 19,675 models."

https://motorandwheels.com/11-toyota-4runner-statistics-facts/

 

It's funny, how many, or how few, really, of the 87's were made. Why?
I went over to the store in my tiny little town, 1 stop sign type place. When we pulled up to the 4-way stop, we looked. The other three that pulled up about the same time were...87 4Runners!! All 4 different colors, different mods, different lifts, different tires, but essentially, all the same truck.
You wouldn't think, that few having been made, that 4 of us would even BE in the same tiny little town, and it is SMALL town. Maybe 10,000. MAYBE. At the same stop sign, at the same time. We all sat there a minute, looking at each other's trucks, then away we went, waving farewell to one another, shaking our heads, but all smiling. It's never happened again, but it was an unlikely, unusual, event. Kinda neat, though, and when I saw how few 87's had been made overall, it was an even more unusual event. After 35 years, you wouldn't think there would be even very many left, let alone in the same place at the same instant.

There are an amazing number of older 4Runners, and other Toyotas in general, in K Falls. The nearest "large" city anywhere nearby. About 20 miles from the town I live in. Every fall, they come out of the woodwork, new tires, oil changes, you name it. Everyone getting set for winter. The stealership gets flooded about now. You can see it when you drive past. They're lined up. Many of the mechanic shops around town, too.

Have fun, all!
Pat☺

 

I had something very similar happen to me except it wasn’t a stop sign and 4runnners but I was in an ice cream shop with my girlfriend and the three other guys she was sleeping with were there too. No waving at all!

 

So I guess the question that we all want to know???? Stay with me here I’m going to try to do hard math I might have to break out some algebra and geometry!
So there are 4 guy in this ice cream shop I hope it was (Whitey’s) it’s in the Quad Cities, IA/IL. So 4 guys 1 well traveled Lady just like everyone’s 4Runner! So which one of the 4 guy’s were first on the list????

 

None were first on the list. There was an earliest of the group. He got to order first and get four scoops of cookies and cream in a chocolate covered waffle cone while the rest of use betas had to settle for soft serve in a cup.