Consumer Reports - 2016 Tacoma - Telling it Like It Is

Basically says what most people already know - it's a second gen with a few half baked improvements.

But of course GM paid for them to say that, or Toyota didn't spend enough on advertising in CR.....

Yup Toyota "The teacher wasn't fooled"

Update: written article now posted

http://www.consumerreports.org/cars/redesigned-2016-toyota-tacoma-doesnt-feel-all-new?EXTKEY=I72RSC0

 

Consumer reports suck. If you want a cartruck, they can recommend you one. They're clueless.

 

You didn't even watch the video.

 

Don't like CR, never have.

 

Um...
...Consumer Reports does not accept any outside advertising dollars. That's what makes them unbiased.

 

I guess you didn't get my sarcasm...

 

I am still just completely puzzled at this repeated mantra that changing the engine, transmission, interior, and front end of exterior isn't enough to qualify as "new". Just fascinates me to see the logic used to justify that opinion...

 

Wonder if reviewing a TRD or a Limited with more tech woudlve changed anything. I mean just about any car reviewer compares the top-trims to show what each model has to offer. The SR5 is a great Tacoma, great truck, and has everything you need with a great 4x4 system. But it keeps things simple, whereas the TRDs pump up a bit more tech to stay a little more modern. Maybe I'm being a fanboy but I feel like they reviewed the SR5 just to make it easy to nit-pick.

 

I come in here and crack on Consumer Reports, and then little banty Roster shows up.

 

Spoiler alert

Why is CR so surprised that the Tacoma rides like a truck? Am I missing something or are there that many people who want a 2016 elcamino?

 

Arizona surly can't be all full of ass holes.

 

I did not. Good day sir!

Sorry...

 

Who says you can't?

 

There is no such thing as a Tacoma upside down on its payments unless you really got screwed up by the dealer!

 

Banty Roosterboy Smitty, but he has a '16, so he's a genius.

 

I can almost guarantee Smitty99 did....

 

I whole heartedly believe consumer reports. The tacoma has never ranked high, but has all red dots everywhere. So while they don't recomed it, it does score very high in reliability. That's the most attractive feature to me.

They mention the GM twins. In their review of the twins the first line says, "we really wanted to like the new twins, we just couldn't. "

 

Consumer Reports is junk, has been for a loooong time. Here's a little info on their "auto rankings"

http://www.allpar.com/cr.html

Oh, and I don't really care about how they or any other site "ranks" the Tacoma.. that's like measuring the size of your girlfriends dick. It doesn't make any sense, unless it does.. then.. measure away.

 

Ummmm, dude. There seems to be some issues with the article and your post:

1. The Tacoma video at the beginning of this thread is a driving impressions review
   
2. The article (and presumably you, since you posted to it) criticizes CR's reliability ratings
   
3. The CR Tacoma video at the beginning of this thread mentions the Tacoma's legendary reliability
   
4. CR consistently rates the Tacoma as very high reliability in their publications

So are you saying that CR's Tacoma ratings for reliability are full of crap?

 

Not to mention a frame about three times stronger.