These little vans were never very popular with families in Upstate New York during my youth. Everyone it seems drove Caravans or the occasional Aerostar. In rear-wheel drive guise, they must have been somewhat tricky to handle in the snow. The all-wheel drive was probably a different story, but when's the last time you've seen of those? I can't seem to find any record if the AWD version was called All-Trac like the rest of the Toyota lineup, which would probably mean that the mechanical bits were based on an entirely different system.
On the plus side, you could get a five-speed manual in these beasts, most likely even with the panel van model. Now, imagine a AWD panel van with a five-speed. Lethally slow, but rarer than some million dollar E-body muscle cars!
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