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New to this forum but have been lurking and reading a lot of great information here. So I placed a deposit on a order for a new Tacoma Sport with 6 foot box.
I presently have a 22 Sport that I purchased new and really settled for the truck I have with a 5 foot box. It's been a decent truck so far for a gen3. Main dislikes is the automatic transmission, the seats are not comfortable and the engine has no low end torque. Fuel economy isn't the best especially for the low power engine.
So I go to the local dealership and they have a 25 Tacoma Sport with a 6 foot bed wrong color for me and I am not settling again. Salesperson says have you driven one yet, nope I replied and he goes and gets a plate and key fob.
What I exactly told him during my drive was wow this is the Tacoma that Toyota should have built last gen. I couldn't believe the difference in trucks. The truck I drove was a Sport without any package upgrades. So manual seats etc. This truck is so improved that it's hard to believe it's from the same manufacturer. Has plenty of low end torque to get the truck moving and maintain speed. Those manual seats are perfect. The steering is spot on for a truck and no more gear hunting from that 6sp transmission.
Now that being said with this new truck seems like Toyota is only doing package upgrades for what was once normal. I ordered the middle Sport upgrade package for the power seats and the rear slider window. At almost 5000.00 they should almost be ashamed. Yes it comes with heated seats and steering wheel and jbl speakers but dam $5000 and I really don't care about heated seats or steering wheel. Go to the next package and it's almost 10000.00 dam. I keep you all guessing on the color I ordered.
They did go into allocations when I was there and seen 4 trucks not yet built but my color and options.
I presently have a 22 Sport that I purchased new and really settled for the truck I have with a 5 foot box. It's been a decent truck so far for a gen3. Main dislikes is the automatic transmission, the seats are not comfortable and the engine has no low end torque. Fuel economy isn't the best especially for the low power engine.
So I go to the local dealership and they have a 25 Tacoma Sport with a 6 foot bed wrong color for me and I am not settling again. Salesperson says have you driven one yet, nope I replied and he goes and gets a plate and key fob.
What I exactly told him during my drive was wow this is the Tacoma that Toyota should have built last gen. I couldn't believe the difference in trucks. The truck I drove was a Sport without any package upgrades. So manual seats etc. This truck is so improved that it's hard to believe it's from the same manufacturer. Has plenty of low end torque to get the truck moving and maintain speed. Those manual seats are perfect. The steering is spot on for a truck and no more gear hunting from that 6sp transmission.
Now that being said with this new truck seems like Toyota is only doing package upgrades for what was once normal. I ordered the middle Sport upgrade package for the power seats and the rear slider window. At almost 5000.00 they should almost be ashamed. Yes it comes with heated seats and steering wheel and jbl speakers but dam $5000 and I really don't care about heated seats or steering wheel. Go to the next package and it's almost 10000.00 dam. I keep you all guessing on the color I ordered.
They did go into allocations when I was there and seen 4 trucks not yet built but my color and options.
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