Picking Up My Brand New 2023 Toyota Tacoma TRD Off-Road Today! My First New Vehicle in Almost 40 Years.

Self ^ | 12/17/2022 | USConservative

[vpintheak]

Toyotas are great! Enjoy!

[vpintheak]

I’ve got a 2010 Tacoma, manual transmission. It’s awesome.

[vpintheak]

Nissan has the Frontier, and Titan. Both are also solid trucks.

[rb22982]

Nice - If I was more handy with vehicles and/or had the time I'd hold my cars longer but I usually rotate through every 3-4 years now as things start to have the possibility of breaking. Puts my depreciation at around $2-2.5K/yr on average for a nice sedan (or once a Maserati S Q4), nearly always still under warranty and with most modern vehicle features.

Good of you to give your 2003 away!

[BubbaBasher]

TuRD

[JoeRender]

Toyota trucks are better than the American brands that’s for sure.

[usconservative]

Toyota trucks are better than the American brands that’s for sure.

BY FAR!! The F-150 I owned until a few months ago spent more time in the shop than it did on the road.

I also have to wonder how many of these mid-size trucks with Turbo 4-Cylinders are going to be on the road. The Ford Ranger is a beautiful looking truck, HATED the Turbo howl. Same for the Chevy Colorado (though I'll never buy another GM ever again, drove it for the heck of it. It also had a horrible turbo howl.) Dodge doesn't have anything in this class, and the RAM HEMI was another $20k+ outside my price point.

The Honda Ridgeline is ugly AF and with a transverse-mounted engine and all the complexity of making it a 4WD there's no way it'll last very long towing anything.

Toyota's legendary reliability and the fact that the Tacoma's a very nice looking truck and an interior that's flat out luxurious IMO made it a winner. And I liked the way it drove, handled bumps, potholes, obstacles, etc..

One last thing: I was NOT going to pay for a UAW built truck that would've come pretty stripped down and funded a Union I despise, vs. a very well appointed truck with far better reliability for slightly less than the stripped down American truck. Nuh uh.