Fifth generation 2010 Toyota 4Runner to run in SCORE Baja 1000

This vehicle's looks are a colossal failure and this feeble attempt at billing it as some hairy=chested brute will also fail. This is feeling a bit like The Emperor's Clothes. "If you can't see how cool this is then something must be wrong with you." Bullshit.

you must be talking about the hummer you driving.

The ridgeline races these races too, this means nothing unless they are bone stock!
The way they have modifies this 4-runner you could prep a civic to do the same, this is almost meaningless! I would love to see them all race completely stock with a cage of course, with no added race shocks and factory tires, then I would be impressed.

+1. That would be awesome. There should be all sorts of races that operate as you have describe. Right now the closest thing we have to this would be demo derbies!

What are y'all talking about? The "race car" will be a heavily-modified actual 4Runner (based off the "production vehicle"). The Baja 1000 is a notorious off-road race in California where ONLY trucks and dirt bikes compete. It's the Fuji Speedway of the rally/off-roading world. A regular sedan would not make it around.

The only part of this 4-runner that is the same as the street version is the appearance (grill...)and the frame, that is about it, and if that cage wasn't there it would fall apart during the race, so what does that tell us about how tough this is? Actually the frame in this stock is a fully boxed one and better than most, I like this race version, I would like to see an off road package closer to this, and the trd package isn't even close to being worthy of any praise.

You guys are trying to exert that you know useless information on the subject to appear more wise on the subject. Of course these vehicles "look" nothing like the production cars they are based on, HOWEVER, the chassis (the struts and springs, the very foundation of an automobile, is the same one that the production vehicles ride on. I obviously stated nothing untruthful.

Anthony, it is well known that they would run fox shocks here, the wheel travel is supposed to be the same, this is a completely different vehicle that would cost a few hundred thousand to build, If they are running factory struts this will be the first that I have ever heard about it. how is that for some guys that know nothing,lol

Wrong Wrong Wrong. Anthony is correct about the suspension. I'm an off road racer myself, and when a car is entered into the stock class, it must have a stock engine, drivline, suspension. They can be altered within the guidelines of the race organizers but most not be performance enhancing, and the suspension can be altered out of manufactures specs. And they don't all run fox, i used to run Bilstein and Iron suspension. Secondly, the car would not fall apart wihtout the cage, becuase they have not altered the actual body or its rigidity, that is actually a roll cage for protection. ALL OFF ROAD RACE CARS HAVE THEM!!! This is actually a stock 4Runner with all of the unnecesary weight of the interiour ripped out and replaced by esstienel race gear like the roll cage, accept it, is is one, thats why it is running on stock class, becuase it is not a fiberglass shell on a hogh performance race tuck chassis. Like Robby Gordons Hummer he races, its just a fiberglass shell, not an actaul Hummer, underneath it is hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of high performance shocks, bullet proof driveline, high performance engine etc. to run off road. Thos trucks are custom built and cost mega dollars. Also, no runs off road civics becasue the suspension layout is wrong, the body type is wrong, it would be extremely expensive to convert it to run off road. Not all cars can be race cars, only few that can be easily converted to the role. So thats that, this is a factory, get it through, a FACTORY truck that has no or very little modification to its suspension, drivleine, or enigne. STOCK CARS ARE STOCK IN THE TERMS OF THE BODY AND MECHANICAL DRIVE SYSTEMS AND SHOCKS!! This has only be modified in terms of removing the interior and putting a roll cage FOR SAFETY! Not because it's weak. Also I drive a 1990 4Runner, and it could easily run stock class if it had a roll cage and the interoir removed, becasue that is facotry ride height. All aside, I hope you take this into considration and enjoy motor sport, its fun, and I don't mean to offend, but to merely educate and help with facts.

Forgive my spelling, always hated english

Sorry again, in my reply to truckman it should read can not be altered out of manufactures specs. Sorry, having a bad day.