This is what they should be selling here.
This is what they should be selling here.
Exactly. It looks like a diesel 5 speed manual SUV version of that could be had for $44k USD in Australia.
Toyota has really lost their way.
Toyota used to make a small, cheap, reliable truck, that was stripped down to the basics of comfort yet more than capable of doing everything you needed it to do. A truck that for pennies on the dollar could more hang with its bigger cousins either off road or on the jobsite. (And with decent gas mileage.) I think the first gen tacomas were the end of this era.
RIP HILUX
Toyota used to make a small, cheap, reliable truck, that was stripped down to the basics of comfort yet more than capable of doing everything you needed it to do. A truck that for pennies on the dollar could more hang with its bigger cousins either off road or on the jobsite. (And with decent gas mileage.) I think the first gen tacomas were the end of this era.
RIP HILUX
Hate to say this, but P/U's and Pony cars are more than likely the last bastion of performance and appearance customization. Cars and SUV's have become an appliance, while the manual transmission an anti theft device. Fewer and fewer want to modify their car or even care to. We have become shadows of our former selves. We take cars to jiffy lube to change the oil. No tune ups needed with spark plugs that last 100 K miles. Forget about swapping out an engine when you throw a rod, whole car goes to Pull-A-Part so that someone may replace a broken window, torn seat, windshield washer pump or body panel. There are more wires than bolts holding your engine in the car, assuming you can even get to it. Enjoy it while it lasts.
You’re in the 50’s easy with 4wd
Morons will pay 60k+ when the 4runner comes out.
Back in the 80's all the ranchers in Colorado where we hunted drove Toyota 4x4s with the 22r and stick shift and they loved them. They were tough and lasted. Lock out hubs, no power anything and no a/c.
I was told once that Toyota had 1600 models world wide. What you see here is what won’t annihilate the domestic Big 3. One PH I hunted with in SA had a Toyota I would do horrible things behind a paywall for. It’s the dang policritters strike again.
Well, the Tacos are for well-to-do teens who get their first car or the early 20 somethings that are still single. I don't don't see them as a grown up man's truck. Not that they are bad in any way. In fact I think they are great for a "1/4 ton" truck but where I grew up it is what the vast majority of teenagers drove if they got a truck.
I still enjoy my 06 Tundra 4x4 Double Cab with Bilstein Suspension, Lockers. I think bar a wreck it should last me out.
