Grand Cherokee or 4Runner?

Toyota chose to reveal its updated 2014 4Runner at a Country music festival in California this past weekend. Now that Nissan has relegated he Pathfinder to life as family hauler and Hummer has been defunct for 3 years, the 4Runners competition has narrowed. There's really only one other vehicle that prides itself in being as capable off road as it is on road: The Jeep Grand Cherokee. The design concept behind both is obviously very different. While the Grand Cherokee is round and has ditched hard lines from previous models, the 2014 4Runner exhibits about as hard edge of a design as possible. I think the edginess of the 4Runner looks tough and masculine and is somewhat appealing but in terms of overall beauty, I don't think it's even a competition. The Grand Cherokee really is a gorgeous SUV. Despite being a much bigger fan of the Jeep over the Toyota, I'm glad Toyota is sticking too its roots with the 4Runner and not selling out like Nissan did with the Pathfinder.

2014 Toyota 4Runner

2013 Nissan Pathfinder 

2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee

Note: The base MSRP price of the 4Runner and the Grand Cherokee is very comparable. The big difference between the two is that the Grand Cherokee can be configured in model that rings in over $63,000 whereas the 4Runner tapers off around $43,000.