I've had a couple RET 4Runners and feel I've been in the minority on liking them. In comparison to the 3.0 the turbo would walk all over them. One time at the 4Runner Jamboree I made an emergency parts run to Bakersfield for a guy, on the way back going up the Grapevine on I-5 he was amazed that I was doing 85 mph w/35's and was just cruzing along. He had a 92 4Runner 3.0 and said he'd never been able to do that without pushing his motor hard on a grade like that. I've always like the turbo and even used to tow an 18' travel trailer with it. It is all in the maintenance, I'd always do a major service on it at 45,000 miles, I had them for over 250,000 miles before I sold them. Never had any issues with turbos or the motors. I'd get another one if I could. About the one and only issue was offroading, the turbo is ineffective until about 2,500 rpm so it was just like having a 22RE with an auto trans..... gutless.
