Diesel Tacoma?

Hey when is Toyota going to start selling a diesel Tacoma in North America?

 

They probably won't. It's been around here for awhile, talking about the EPA requirements for imported diesels.

 

Three weeks from never...

If you haven't noticed, Americans have a illogical aversion to diesel, they're too expensive to make and run here, and besides Toyota has a "green = Hybrid" image to maintain. If the Taco gets anything, I'd imagine it'd be more of a 5lug hybrid.

 

Diesels are more "green" by far then currant hybrid technology. The VW clean TDi took the highest honors for green technology NOT a Toyota Prius. Think 60mpg and still enough power to haul ass!! Not only that but you can recycle most parts of a diesel engine, hybrid drives have weird high-tech parts and expensive non recyclable batteries.

I would think we would be more likely to see a diesel Toyota in Canada before the US, for a couple reasons first there has always been more of a market in Canada for diesel vehicles, and second would be scale of sales. Much smaller number of pickups to make the first couple years with a diesel. Toyota has the technology, and the engines, just a matter of time IMO.