{"id":6877,"date":"2012-01-05T12:08:35","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T04:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/?p=6877"},"modified":"2012-01-05T12:08:35","modified_gmt":"2012-01-05T04:08:35","slug":"4x4-of-the-year-for-toyota-fj-cruiser-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/2012\/01\/4x4-of-the-year-for-toyota-fj-cruiser-in-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"4&#215;4 of the Year for Toyota FJ Cruiser in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<fb:like \n\t\thref=\"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/2012\/01\/4x4-of-the-year-for-toyota-fj-cruiser-in-australia\/\" \n\t\tlayout=\"button_count\" \n\t\tshow_faces=\"true\" \n\t\twidth=\"450\" \n\t\theight=\"30\"\n\t\taction=\"like\" \n\t\tcolorscheme=\"light\" \n\t\tstyle=\"margin-top:5px;\"\n\t\tclass=\"fb_edge_widget_with_comment fb_iframe_widget\"><\/fb:like><p dir=\"ltr\" align=\"left\">The Toyota\u2019s FJ Cruiser has introduced in Australia for just about a year and now wins its title as 4&#215;4 of the Year from \u20184&#215;4 Australia magazine\u2019. Toyota FJ Cruiser beat the Jeep Grand Cherokee diesel, Range Rover Vogue TDV8 and Mercedes-Benz G 350 BlueTEC to take the top position.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Toyota FJ Cruiser in Australia - 4x4 of the year\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Toyota-FJ-Cruiser-aus-630x440.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"440\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" align=\"left\">4&#215;4 Australia editor Fraser Stronach said FJ Cruiser had finished the competition strongly, winning favour with the six experienced judges. &#8220;Coming into the week-long 4&#215;4 of the Year test, the FJ Cruiser was very much the outsider and a good deal behind,&#8221; Mr Stronach said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" align=\"left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" align=\"left\">Toyota Australia executive vice president David Buttner said the award recognised Toyota&#8217;s concerted effort to bring exciting new products to the market.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" align=\"left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" align=\"left\">&#8220;FJ Cruiser underlines Toyota&#8217;s prowess in four-wheel drive vehicle design backed by popular retro styling,&#8221; Mr Buttner said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" align=\"left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" align=\"left\">&#8220;It is the latest vehicle in the Toyota range to bring renewed energy to our brand alongside the Rukus and the upcoming 86 sports car.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" align=\"left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" align=\"left\">Anyway, 4&#215;4 Australia magazine will publish the 4&#215;4 of the Year feature in its February 2012 edition.<\/p>\n<fb:like \n\t\thref=\"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/2012\/01\/4x4-of-the-year-for-toyota-fj-cruiser-in-australia\/\" \n\t\tlayout=\"button_count\" \n\t\tshow_faces=\"true\" \n\t\twidth=\"450\" \n\t\theight=\"30\"\n\t\taction=\"like\" \n\t\tcolorscheme=\"light\" \n\t\tstyle=\"margin-top:5px;\"\n\t\tclass=\"fb_edge_widget_with_comment fb_iframe_widget\"><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Toyota\u2019s FJ Cruiser has introduced in Australia for just about a year and now wins its title as 4&#215;4 of the Year from \u20184&#215;4 Australia magazine\u2019. Toyota FJ Cruiser beat the Jeep Grand Cherokee diesel, Range Rover Vogue TDV8 and Mercedes-Benz G 350 BlueTEC to take the top position. &nbsp; 4&#215;4 Australia editor Fraser &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[6420,6414,6416,6418,6421,6419,6417,2199,6415,6411,6413,6412,2197,2198],"class_list":["post-6877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-toyota","tag-2011-4x4-of-the-year-in-australia","tag-4x4-australia","tag-4x4-australia-magazine","tag-4x4-of-the-year","tag-4x4-of-the-year-2011-in-australia","tag-4x4-of-the-year-in-australia","tag-david-buttner","tag-fj-cruiser","tag-fraser-stronach","tag-jeep-grand-cherokee-diesel","tag-mercedes-benz-g-350-bluetec","tag-range-rover-vogue-tdv8","tag-toyota-australia","tag-toyota-fj-cruiser"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6877"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6885,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6877\/revisions\/6885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}