Battle of Giants! 2024 Toyota Sequoia vs Land Rover Defender 130 vs GMC Yukon . Drag and Roll Race

I made a mistake. We should have gone when the lights turn off, not when they... Sorry, when the lights turn on. I went too early. I apologize. It's my fault. My name is Sam and this is another drag race. Let's roll! We're back again with another drag race. We have the 2024 Land Rover Defender. Listen to that engine. In the middle, we have the 2024 Toyota Sequoia TRD Pro. Now listen to that engine. And of course, the last one is the 2024 GMC Yukon Denali. Now listen to that V8. Here we are. We've got an inline-six engine. We have a V6 engine and a V8 naturally aspirated. We're going to find out how these three compare in a straight line. Now, before we start talking about these cars, you're probably wondering, wait a second, two are sort of off-road packages. It's true. It would have been better to have the GMC Yukon Denali with the off-road package, but unfortunately, it wasn't available, so we're stuck with these guys. But nonetheless, I think it's still going to be an interesting one. Now, let's talk about the specs. The Land Rover Defender is the 130 outbound edition, which means it doesn't have the third row. It uses a three-liter supercharged turbocharged inline-six plus the permanent magnet system, so it's sort of like a hybrid. And it makes 395 brake horsepower, 10 brake horsepower out of that. It is electric and 406 pound-feet of torque. Uses an eight-speed automatic transmission, and it is four-wheel drive. Curb weights with a three-row at 5,938 pounds. Meanwhile, without the third row, it weighs about 5,800 pounds. It uses Goodyear Wrangler Territory DuraTrac tires. The next one is the 2024 Toyota Sequoia TRD Pro. This one uses 3.5-liter V6 twin-turbocharged engine, and with the hybrid motor, this makes 437 brake horsepower and 583 pound-feet of torque. It is equipped with a 10-speed automatic transmission, and it is four-wheel drive, but it weighs 6,150.9 pounds. It's heavy, but it also makes a lot of horsepower. And the last one is the 2024 Yukon Denali, which under the hood uses a 6.2-liter pushrod V8 naturally aspirated. It makes 420 brake horsepower and 460 pound-feet of torque. It uses a 10-speed automatic transmission. It is four-wheel drive. It has a curb weight of 6,000 pounds. This one is heavy too. Of course, we did do our usual test for the fuel efficiency, and here's what we got. The Yukon Denali got 12 liters, 400 kilometers. This was a total of 112 kilometers that we did from Toronto to here. It's a good test. It was about 56 kilometers of that with city highway drive, and the rest was country drive with like 60 to 80 kilometers an hour on average. The next one is the Toyota Sequoia with the same essentially drive. We drove right behind each other. This one was able to achieve 14.9 liters per 100 kilometers. The reason I think that the Defender got slightly the better one is because less weight in it, and also the didn't have the original tires. It should have made the fuel efficiency worse, but clearly it didn't, but I think it had to do more with the weight. It's also a smaller engine and smaller displacement. Meanwhile, the Toyota is bigger. It also has that roof rack on top, which doesn't help with wind resistance, and I think that's why it didn't get the better fuel efficiency for being hybrid. Meanwhile, the V8 did pretty well, not far off from the Defender. 12 liters per 100 kilometers. It's actually not bad. The beautiful thing with the Yukon Denali is it turns off three pistons, I believe, or four pistons on the highway, so it disengages some pistons so that it burns less fuel, which is great technology. The 2024 Toyota Sequoia, it has the TRD Pro package in this. We got different tires, different exterior, different color. You got the Sequoia, the TRD Pro bar, the light bar in the front. It has a TRD Pro interior, which is quite nice, and the Defender, it's the Outbound, which is essentially an off-road 130, but without the third row. That's the idea, and it also uses off-road tires, and what we're going to do today first is the two off-road vehicles, which would be the Defender and the Sequoia, and then whichever wins goes up against the GMC Yukon Denali. That's the plan. If you're new to the channel, here's how we do the drag race and the road race. The road race, we started behind the racing lights, continuing with the speed, depends on the road race, all the way to the racing lights. At the racing lights, we basically go pedal to the metal all the way to the quarter mile racing flag finish line. That's what we do. You have a racing flag at the end. That's exactly a quarter mile from the racing tree all the way down here, exactly a quarter mile. The first one we're going to do is a roll race and then drag race, and then we'll do switching drivers. Whichever one wins in the first round goes in against the Yukon Denali. We're also going to do a driver switch for the second race, but for now, let's roll. Three, two, one, go. Let's see. Try to get about 50 to 60 kilometers an hour. Come on, Defender. Whoa, okay. Sequoia took off. Come on. What? I got close to him towards the end, like I was catching up towards the end. That wasn't bad at all. Mind you, it is a little bit wet today, but wow, that Sequoia went. Now, we're going to do it at a higher speed because the transmission does a better job with the Defender in higher speed. Three, two, one, go. It's like, come on. I even hit the gas before. I'm catching up. I'm catching up. Defender, a lot better this time, but damn, that Toyota, it's just, I think I'm catching up. I'm catching up. I'm catching up. I'm catching up. I am catching up, and he won by like less than half a car. Less than half a car. That's at the same time. And we're going to do a low speed, keeping an automatic mode. Mine in a sport mode in here. I think it is sport mode. Yeah, it is a sport mode. I'm assuming yours is four-wheel high like mine and sport mode. You're right. High and sport mode. Okay, I am ready on three, two, one, go. We go. Three, two, one, go. Go. Okay. Wow. Sequoia. Driving a house. He's not far off. In comparison to the Defender, he's not far off. That was nice. We got to go a little bit higher speed this time. Make sure you stay right beside me all the way to the cones. Okay. Three, two, one, go. A little spin there. Come on, Toyota. Oh, at higher speed. At higher speed. Look at that. Come on. I'm catching up. Come on. Come on. I'm catching up. That is crazy. You had it in two-wheel, right? You don't have it in four-wheel. Wheels. It was much faster than four-wheel. Definitely. The top speed that I was able to reach with two wheels was higher than the previous run. Yeah, but we also did the road race at 70 kilometers an hour versus 50 on the first one. So that did help a little bit, but clearly you had the advantage because I hit the gas and this thing wasn't moving at all. At higher speed, I'm assuming your transmission did better. Anyways, let's do a drag race next. Let's go to the racing lights or as these people call it, the Christmas tree. Move. Go, go, go, go. I spun a little bit. Wow. Damn. That was fantastic. Amazing race. I really appreciate it. Now that you're driven all three, which one would you pick? Which one would you take home? I love all three and I have reviewed all three extensively and I've done drag races with them too. And I love the Defender. No question. I'm a sucker for this, but I appreciate the ruggedness of the Toyota with that TRD Pro package. And that V6 is superb in a thousand ways. That is what I love about the Sequoia. It's like the rugged feeling and it's comfortable. I love that. And that power, it's very addicting. As you saw, you put your foot down, it's pretty quick as you test it. The Defender, it's got that ruggedness and it's got that luxury at the same time. And it's nice. And this thing is a supercharged and turbocharged engine. And I love the interior of the Defender. I adore the Denali for being luxurious and that soft ride and that V8 is superb as well. All three are great three-row SUVs. You can't deny that they're great, all three. It's very hard to pick one or the other, but I have to say, I would go with the Defender as well with the 130. If money wasn't to question, right? Because it is a little bit pricier. Just want to say thank you so much. And if Dave, you're listening, thank you for joining today and thank you for helping guys. This was awesome. We're probably going to do this again with different cars, but I appreciate your help on this one. 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