How fun would you deem the Tacoma?

We actually own a WRX and a Jeep Wrangler along with the '11 AC. It is a PITA to keep the wheels balanced and with the six speed manual is terrible in traffic, but does just fine on the back and dirt roads...

Not the most fun vehicle to drive, but very practical.

Howard

 

Taken me everywhere I have wanted to go and more

 

Fun driving mine, always driven a truck, it's not hard to work on and modify, gives me sumthin to weld on and play with, it kinda sucks as an on road vehicle nowadays, off road it's A LOT of fun

 

I just got my Tacoma about a month ago and have really enjoyed it. In the past I have owned a WRX & most recently a X-Terra Pro-4x. Obviously the most comparable is the X-terra, but so far like the Tacoma better.

It's not an exotic car by any means, but I love it!

 

for a semi-urban redneck, I have always said the taco is the best 4-wheeled thing you could buy to have fun in. especially with manual trans.

with swaybar on it is a blast on the street, just enough power to over-steer. take the bar off for a more challenging ride!

my favorite thing is when im loaded with camping gear, pass all the power-strokes, cummins, and dirty-maxs' towing their razors and whathaveyou, and then watching as they go by my camp with sad faces a couple hours later cause I beat them to it, had the windows up and a/c on to boot!

its a great machine to have if you can only have one.

and to be completely honest, most guys that tow their rigs do far more difficult trails than I can, or will, im just saying that the road-treck for me was a lot more fun than it was for them, and I have gotten this near-stock truck in some places that made them question their spending

 

Mmmhmm. I don't know about that man. My truck is pretty quick for a naturally aspirated Tacoma, being much lighter than stock and well tuned. My wife's duramax will blow my fucking doors off. I know because I've tried to outrun her. I can barely keep ahead in tight corners, but as soon as there is a straight stretch I'm done. What really pisses me off is her truck gets much better mileage than mine, despite weighing a metric shit ton more. Offroad is a different story, but onroad those diesels are very difficult to compete with.

 

agreed, i remember my first time driving a duramax, and both my bro's cummins will kill my truck, and even my old power-stroke keeps pace despite an over-built bed filled with heavy tools and a 1500lbs welder on it, buuutttt

they are stuck at 55mph with a trailer, and i get to go 70! not meaning that my truck will smoke a diesel, but that i get to have more fun and make better time on a trip to go camping.

 

In California they only get to go 55mph.. How ever every other state (maybe a few I don't know of) they get to go as fast as any car. Just semi's have to go 10mph slower on interstates

 

My buddy has a bone stock first gen cummins that is about even with the taco until 75 or so, then I squeek by because he runs out of gears. It's a 1991 with a quarter million miles on it. Yeah, in the dirt we win hands down, but mostly because we are lighter. Any good liter UTV will smoke a taco offroad...because it's lighter...just something to think about.

 

I love driving mine. I just drove back to Calgary, AB from Yellowstone today and I smiled all 10hrs I was behind the wheel.

 

ok, ok, ok, so, in the case of excess funding, in a different state, having a big-truck, and a designated off-road-only could lead to good times. fair enough.

for me, i'll leave this thing



at home, throw some gear into the taco, hold the speed-limit at top-gear up grade, and still wheel it just fine to get to where i want to. . . .

is the taco fun. . . yes

and, i see it more worthy to just lt or strait-axle the taco rather than buy a toy, buy a trailer, buy another big-truck, and deal with keeping the three together, just to go out and have a good weekend.

maybe im the crazy one, cause im stuck in:

the car does wife things

the ugly ford does maybe someday i could be my own boss things

the company (not mine) gmc does the paying kind of work things (see what i did there)

and my taco does FUN things. whether a trip to the pharmacy, or a trip to the mountains, i would rather drive NOTHING ELSE! unless you want to get into maybe i could have a Ferrari fxx for the pharmacy trips

 

I love my truck for it's resale value, practical use, good power (for me), the way it looks, I can look over most vehicles, and last it hasn't left me stranded yet

 

Anyone else wanna provide their input on the entertainment value of the Tacom?

 

I'll pipe in, after having 3 Tundra's the past 6.5 years this Tacoma is wicked off road and maybe because it's new but I seem to be putting on the K's. Now don't get me wrong if the driver hadn't ran the light I'd be driving a Tundra but I'm pretty frikin happy I finally have my Taco!

... and the new 3rd gen is coming out next year..the wife works for Toyota Canada and that is all their talking about. I hope she's right and there isn't any delays.

 

What are the better options? Isn't the Frontier basically the only other mid-size truck right now? At least until the Colorado comes out? And then you'd be taking a chance on a GMC...

 

FTW

 

I love driving mine. It is so much more powerful and comfortable than my old 2wd 4 cylinder Ford Ranger. It handles on-and-off-road like a dream and it's built like a brick shit-house compared to that shaky, noisy, gutless old thing.

I was going to keep my crappy old Ranger for daily use and get a 3/4-ton diesel pickup for fun, but after test-driving a bunch of them I began to really dislike them. The diesel pickups have awesome power but they suck balls off-road, everything about them is more expensive than a gas pickup, the handling is ponderous and I have never needed to tow anything in my entire life. My friends and co-workers who have diesel pickups deal with $350.00 oil and filter changes, multi-thousand dollar repair bills, and truck payments that rival or exceed my house payment. I have never once regretted getting my Tacoma instead of a diesel pickup.

Once I drove a 6 speed/4.0L Tacoma, I instantly felt a zen-like wave of complete joy and inner harmony wash over me and I knew it was the truck for me. No vehicle is perfect but there is nothing else out there with the Tacoma's combination of reliability, daily usefulness and off-road awesomeness.

 

I absolutely love driving my Tacoma, it's almost like there's an aura of reliability and awesomeness that just surrounds it that i've never felt with any other vehicle.

Offroad..its lots of fun to drive. Onroad...its not the greatest thing since sliced bread but it works. I would deem my WRX a "fun" vehicle to drive. My Tacoma is a "good" vehicle to drive.

 

I love my Tacoma and I love driving it. I put something like 1,500 miles on it in August when I was at home on leave from Korea because I wanted to drive it everywhere.

I do miss my WRX because that car was a blast to own, but I prefer my Tacoma. It's a jack of all trades and gets the job it's built to do done very well. That said, when I pay her off in a year or two I'll be buying an STi and use the Taco as a DD and the STi for once and a while fun.

 

Yeah...what he said.