Good job Toyota - 192,813 of the 2024 models sold.

I don't know about affording two trucks and still having free time to mountain bike. It's not 2020 anymore.

 

Yes. When I purchased a new 2024 4Runner, I thought I no longer needed a truck and sold my 3rd gen 2021 Tacoma. That was a mistake. I should never have sold it. It was perfectly fine for my needs.

 

If the 3G didn't have the ugly front end underbite and the sabotaging, 6th gear added to auto trans, would it still be a turd gen relative to 2G?

 

Just looking at the cars site there are currently more Tacomas than Tundras listed. I speculate many of the Tacomas are allocations.

 

Some 3G owners come to the 4G threads just to learn about it, nothing else. My only issue is that it's too expensive; but I also realize that's not fact, just my personal opinion.

#perfectgrammar

 

Unfortunately Bob, they're all expensive.

 

True, but the butt ugly Nissan is cheaper. And I'm nothing if not cheap.

 

A decent Toyota truck combined with discounts will always sell. Could Toyota move 20k+ trucks last month on sticker price? I say yikes….but we’ll never know.

It’s great when you get discounts, but life sucks when you go to trade later. A dealer tried to sell me on an OR Premium that stickered well over $50k. Very tempting ride I might say, but when I ran the KBB trade-in on the same truck with 500 miles, it said 40 grand.

With all the discounts and general enthusiasm over the truck itself, are you guys keeping an eye on your residuals?

 

Love my 24. With the interest rates I think it hurt. They sold about 235000 in 2023. But most manufacturing businesses are going to be reporting less as compared to 23 due to pent-up business from to CV 19.

 

There’s literally nothing I miss about the 3rd gens I’ve owned. Every aspect of the 4th gen is better, overall a better built truck in every way. Plus I got 4k off sticker price back in June, probably one of the best deals around back in the summer.

 

No. It's too late now. I own it.

I bought a 2011 in January 2011 and gave it away in October of this year.

If I drive the 2024 as long as I drove the 2011 it won't matter.

Even if I don't, it won't matter.

I don't view it as one of life's important decisions.

 

Prior to Covid, third gens were discounted. I paid 32.6k out the door for my brand new 2019 long bed off road 4x4 with tech package. Didn’t seem to affect it’s resale.

 

You're enjoying the benefit of acquiring a tangible asset prior to a period of high inflation.

 

Of course you need two trucks, your justification sounds solid to me.

I'm sorry I sold every one of my old Toyotas (1 pickup, 2 Tacoma, 2 4Runners, Corollas), can’t say that about too many of my cars. If I had space to still own em…

 

Comparison of 2024 sales between the Frontier, Colorado, Ranger and Tacoma.



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Video has a correction in the notes that the Colorado sold 98k units. I'm guessing the revised number includes the GMC Canyon?

 

So rough math say the Tacoma sold as much as all the others combined. What a failure on toyotas part.

 

You are missing the point. It was discounted over 15% off msrp.

 

I think you're missing the point. You got a discount prior to covid, in a competitive market with low interest rates. Covid dried up supply, and all car values increased. No discounts on new cars (because they weren't being produced at volume), also increasing value of used cars. Then high inflation occurred. Values are correcting, but they're still higher than they should be.

But, the point of ace_10 is about tangible assets and high inflation. The value of my house increased from $200k to $300k in that time, because it's a tangible asset acquired prior to a period of high inflation. It didn't increase in value. The value of a dollar decreased, so now my house is worth 300k of them instead of 200k.

 

15% is rare.