4th Gen Tacoma (2024+)

What do they call them over seas? That isn't even a North American sold vehicle it's an import lol

 

It was from a blonde car reviewer on Youtube. I did not state it as fact so I'd not get to twisted up, just a short blurb.

I find it funny in a world long deep into button pushing performance modes, that Toyota would not include an ECO option on a hybrid vehicle. Detuned for highway driving with a focus on battery, and regen braking.
Equally funny is how many rush to beat Toyota down on a Toyota Tacoma site.
Personally, I prefer to look at the potiental through rose colored glasses. Rather than staying transfixed on tye past, discounting innovation, head in the hay with my blinders on.

But that's just me.

 

Matt Walsh should get on this “what is a truck” question.

 

It’s really called a Kei class truck

 

That sir is a Micro Truck.

This is a Mini Truck…

 

I had no idea that the BMW i3 was a truck! It makes sense, since it has access cab style doors.

 

Another little known fact, the 4Runner and Sequoia are also a trucks!

 

Actually…the 4Runner started life as a truck, were converted by the coach company Winnebago. Were called Trekkers.


https://parts.olathetoyota.com/blog/forgotten-toyota-trekker




Had an ‘85 with the removable top, have hauled firewood in it with the top off. Shame that soccer moms took over the 4Runner, it was a true sport utility, with more emphasis on the utility part.

 

yes they are. just not "pick-up trucks"

 

Then what’s an SUV I’m sooo confused!!!?

 

A tonneau cover

 

Correction: that is a sexy beast.

 

K5 blazer. Unibody on frame.

 

What did they call SUVs before the term SUV was created?

 

Minivans! and before that station wagon!

 

Supposedly Jeep first coined the term in 1974 with full-sized 1974 Jeep Cherokee SJ.

MPVs (Multi-Purpose-Vehicles) before that I am told.

Jeep has an interesting history of how the name came about.

https://www.motortrend.com/features/1604-trail-head-how-the-jeep-got-its-name/

 

Wagon. It’s literally in the name “WAGONeer”.

 

We had a late 70s Wagoneer when I was young, cool looking, but huge POS. Remember it leaving us stranded a few times.

Panel van or panel truck too.

With passenger seats and windows, some manufacturers called them Carryalls. (Not just International)

 

Exactly! We took countless family vacations as a kid in my parent's Ford Country Squire station wagon. That thing was giant. We'd fold the back seats down, lay out our blankets and sleeping bags, and have a blast. To my sister and me, it was like a "mobile home".

 

Those Kei Trucks have a better payload than my Tacoma, 1300 lbs vs. my 1100 lbs…so does that make it more of a truck by 200 lbs?