What are you paying for 2020 Tacomas?

I bought my 2020 Tacoma TRD Offroad with a manual transmission in April for a total of $35,752

2020 Tacoma $34,350
Desert Package 898
Tire Disposal Fee 5
Doc Fee 499
Total $35,752

I left off the sales tax for obvious reasons.

And because I felt like I was getting the run-around I had the dealer throw in a set of Ditch lights(w/brackets), all-weather mats, and a blackout kit. I sold the blackout kit.

 

Paid $39k for my Trd premium sport 4x4 dcsb w/ technology package last week. Sticker price was over $44k. Don’t think I did too bad considering it was literally the only new Tacoma i could find in a 100 mile radius.

 

How is this offer:

2020 Tacoma LIMITED 4x2 with cover, bed light, step tubes, tailgate lock, and exhaust tip - MSRP 42,146 - they are offering it for $38,126 (after rebate BEFORE TT&L)- that includes some dealer crap (tint, nitrogen, etc) charges they wont remove. That would be almost 10% off MSRP. Vehicle is in Texas. Thoughts?

Thanks!

 

I didn't even know you could get a Limited with 4x2! Thought they were fully loaded like the Pros with everything, just with chrome and no extra lift. I ran the Limited through the builder and the most I could get a 4x2 up to was just under $40K (without tonneau), which included the $1175 delivery fee. How are they getting $42K MSRP on that? A bunch of dealer add-ons? [edit: I just re-read and see that does include some crappy add-ons. Yay for reading!]

Overall if the MSRP is $42K, and you are OK with whatever that includes, then $38K puts you close to 10% off. It would be nice to be there BEFORE rebate, but in this economic climate and shortage, I think that is pretty good.

 

If you really need a truck now, than you should go for it. If it's not a necessity then wait. I wouldn't pay for a truck with the bed lights, step tubes or tonneau cover already installed. The dealers upcharge the prices on those 50% or more to have them at the time of purchase. You can easily buy those afterwards from a dealership and install them in less than an hour. There are great deals for tonneaus through TW forum vendors for half the cost of the OEM.
I definitely wouldn't pay for nitrogen filled tires and tint. If they refuse to remove those charges I would walk, just out of principle.
Also if you only need a 4x2, you could look at the SR5. Save a lot of money to do the mods you want.

 

If they like and want the OEM tonneau, they pretty much have to buy it out of the gate when the truck is new. If they don't mind or even prefer an after market one, then sure they can do it themselves pretty easily. I agree on bed lights and step bars though, they are very simple to do yourself.

If they are looking at Limiteds, I don't think the concern is 4x2 vs. 4x4. I'd imagine it is all the extra features that it offers. Recommending an SR5 is very odd as a replacement for a Limited. It would be very difficult and expensive to "mod" dual zone climate control, sunroof, and other features like that that the Limited gets you...

 

It's not that odd, a lot of people overlook the SR5 and just look at fully loaded trims.

 

I bought my 2018 Sport 4X4 through Costco. I would highly recommend you all check it out. They pre negotiated $4k off sticker price, then discounted all extra parts down 20%. All around solid program.

 

I mean I guess there are people out there like that, but if they can't be arsed enough to do a quick Google search or spend a couple minutes on the Toyota build tool to figure out the differences in trims and pricing on a ~$40K purchase, then I'm not going to bother. I assume if they are motivated enough to be on TW making a post, they'll at least have done that basic research.

 

Have you looked at some of the questions on the TW forum, there are a lot of people like that

 

The Costco program is great for those that don't want to hassle with haggling and the "dealer experience", but unfortunately the issue right now is more with the pandemic shutdowns and stock levels being almost completely depleted, making it very hard to find a dealer willing to move much off MSRP, even for Costco.

 

Touche.

 

I don't think this logic applies to all dealerships as my local dealer in Austin, TX has 52 tacos in stock.

 

By doing your research especially on this site. No dealer if not few are giving the "Costco" pricing right now. We are in a different season right now - especially with Tacomas.

 

2020 DCLB OR + tech + mats/liners = $37.8 including rebate excluding tax

 

I walked away from 3 different dealers at MSRP.

 

Apparently you haven't noticed that if someone inquires about anything other than an OR....the response is always get an OR. Throwing out options to a potential Tacoma buyer, especially one looking at a 4x2, who may not familiar with the trim levels isn't odd. This is the "What are you paying for 2020 Tacomas thread", not the "I already know what I want thread".

 

Actually, I do the opposite. I had a 2005 SR5. I wanted a 2020 SR5 but just couldn't fine one, unfortunately. This was pre-pandemic. The one dealer I was working with had an SR% but was such a bummer that I walked. I ended up getting a 2020 TRD OR for not much more but admit it has a lot of features that I don't really need. For all of the stuff I want to do with the truck (mostly on the road, off road on some pretty rocky / muddy trails) the SR5 would have more than met my needs. There were some good folks on this forum -- with a lot of experience who agreed. Don't get me wrong -- happy with the TRD OR but would have been just fine in the SR5.

In my opinion (granted, I am no expert) the SR5 is the sweet spot between cost and capability in the Tacoma line up. But that's just me. So I would advise people looking at the TRD OR to seriously go the opposite direction and consider the SR5. Of course, if you are going PRO that is a bigger step backwards so that may not be as good a comparison.

Just my thoughts ...

 

there is plenty of tacomas out there... on cars.com it has over 5000k in the whole country... the manual is like 250 thou...

 

I bought an SR5 about a month ago. I totally love the truck. I haven't been off road in it yet but I'm sure it will be fine for me and what I do. It had all the things I had to have and then a few more. There are a few things I would have liked but decided I could live life without, like heated seats because I didn't want to pay for the much higher trim and option package to get it along with many more things I didn't want.
AverageJp was definitely in on some discussion about my purchase experience. Him and several told me to get it. I was also told to get a basic OR if I could get one by others too. Both are good options.