How important is the V6?

If you go back far enough, people complained about the 2nd gen 4.0 and 5-speed constantly "hunting for gears" when it came out, too.

It's a vicious cycle.

 

Lol someone literally said that in this thread, in multiple posts.

 

Toyotas always had underpowered engines, they finally fixed that, and people are going to bitch. I am fine with the V6, that SOB will cruise at 80 no problem! Where my old 22Rs would struggle with 65.

The turbo 4 power numbers looks great, now only if I could get that and the chassis with a retro body styled like the early 80s trucks.

 

I actually have a turbo 4cyl in a 80s truck ! Lol

 

The cycle will end soon, no one will complain about the Tacoma hunting for gears when it goes all electric.

 

I never noticed that myself, if anything, it doesn't want to shift down to a lower gear unless you really step on the gas pedal.

 

the engine is pretty important. there have been issues with burnt exhaust valves, loose spark plugs, timing cover gasket leaks, and oil starvation on steep inclines.

 

A vocal minority has spent 8 years (cheered on by many others who just hate Toyotas in general) spilling endless complaints here towards a Gen3 that in fact has a pretty good V6. The reasoning went that the 3.5 isn’t worthy of their personal idea of a Toyota truck motor, at least in part b/c it was shared with the Highlander family SUV.

Well, Toyota has heard your endless crying, and delivers to you….a wheezy 4 banger, complete with turbo bolted on, pulled straight from, you guessed it, a Highlander. Poetic justice for 8 years of trolling I guess.

If the 3.5 still hurts your feelings, then your local dealer is ready to accept your Gen4 deposits now, and that truck will probably be pretty good too. And so you can officially cease lecturing us on why the 3.5 sucks (as if you’re still stuck in the year 2016..), and instead focus on things more constructive, like informing us on the many virtues of the modern turbo 4.

 

Lol! nice!

earlier 80s….

 

not all, OP hasn't logged on since she lit this pile of poo

 

wow, what a troll

 

I use cruise control all the time and it’s a sweet ride, smooth, in hilly country.
Someone’s on drugs if they think the 4.0 is constantly gear hunting

 

Your old Yota SwollenGoat?

Just received my decals about an hour ago to twin yours.. floundering between either the SR5 chrome steelies or painted DLX steelies to bring it back to the 80's

 

Same here with my 2012. I think it was just a big difference coming from the old 4 speed, and that the trans upshifts pretty quickly.

At the end of the day, it was a nice, but not perfect truck, as I'm sure all generations are.

 

To answer the original question, for those who own the 3.5 it's pretty important. The rest of the world doesn't give a shit.

For what it's worth the gear hunting in my second gen was far more obnoxious than my '19 is. Probably because of the greater jump in ratios between gears in the 5 speed. The 6 speed is smooth. When the 2nd gen would drop from 5th to 3rd on hills with cruise engaged it was pretty annoying.

Of course it wasn't nearly as annoying as the howling from the windshield when there was a strong crosswind and I would try to go faster than 70mph.

Edit: And I wasn't drugged and hallucinating the gear hunting either.

 

It's what people said; I'm not saying it's true.

It was probably crazy in 2005 to have a truck upshifting at like 1700 rpm. I remember even having 5 gears in an auto was groundbreaking (was used to 3+ overdrive).

 

Absolutely love the early 8os front grill , my 85 turbo is cool but those earlier grills are awesome

 

The fact that the truck is built in Mexico and line workers want to go home at the end of their shift is hardly thinly veild xenophobia. Where do people come up with this stuff? If the trucks being built have fit and finish quality control issues, on par with US built vehicles from other manufacturers including US built Tundras. That's not saying anything negative against Mexican workers. Comparing all North American built Toyota products to Japanese built Toyota products is a fair comparison. There's no need to go off center and assign lables to people for expressing facts.

 

Not mine, one I was looking at to buy a few years ago.

Steelies with hub caps gets my vote. Funny when I was young would have picked those aluminum ones you have on there now. Steelies are cool now…

 

79-83 is my absolute favorite. Works with either round or square head lights.