No the suspension is different too. The electronic power steering has an ECU built in that is programmed with the sport settings. I know because I was looking into swapping in the EPS ECU and I don't think that is possible without swapping in a whole rack from the XSE.
Right but how exactly is the suspension different?? Yes, getting the XSE makes sense, but l think that having 2 big fake ducts that harm aerodynamics (and go nowhere) seems really goofy.
This is great. Where did you find this? Also, is there a similar page for woodland suspension differences?
You would think that these car manufacturers would do a better job at advertising such important differences...Don't they know that people are picky? Lol.
lol, if you take those mid row seats out, a 4x8 sheet fits fine without decapitating the driver. its a shame that the mid row seats don't come out, but its understandable because they have airbags in the seats for the rear row passengers. don't want to have an errant static discharge fire a bomb off when someone is trying to put a seat in, and then proceed to launch the seat and the person across their garage, yard, or worse. It was planned, at some point, because if you do remove the mid row seats, the seat belt indicators on the infotainment screen for the mid row seats don't light up, like it knows they aren't there, so its not gonna look for weight in them. im sure the rear row is the same, so you are just left with fooling the airbag system with a simple 2.5ohm resistor.
I think one of the reasons the middle row were not designed to be removed is that I think the original plan was for a fridge to be jutting out from the center console into the middle row, so removing the seats wouldn't have made a difference to the ability to load in an 8x4 anyways... too bad ShopVac when bankrupt when it did. I was really looking forward to the novelty of the built in fridge.
Yes, that is for sure the main reason, but I there were likely a series of reasons that led to Toyota deciding that non-removable seats was the right call, instead of trying to engineer something else.... I only wish that the mid row seats backs would fold forward and flat, so that you could create your own flat floor with the rear row similarly folded.
4x8 plywood DOES FIT!
