don't look now! but 24's are showing up in the search tool

Dealer doing a $2500 markup?

 

500 miles only 6 so far.

 

yeah OUCH

oh wait

 

Wtf spray on bed liner? It’s got a composite bed!

 

Ha, zero matches within 500 miles of Colorado Springs...

 

Clearly that regional distributor thinks every Tacoma needs a roof rack and predator steps....

 

53 grand for a freakin SR5, absolutely ridiculous.

 

It will be sold before it hits the lot i bet.....stupid distributors!

 

Every time I search my area within 500 miles Toyota's website crashes. Then I try Dallas and Chicago and same same.

 

yeah I was blaming that freeze/crash on my cellular internet and my browser having the patience of a 3 year old before giving up. I went to 100 then 250 and then 500... 250 took awhile, but faster than 500. definitely helped to have only the 2024 selected at 20 miles though to start increasing.

they have a lot of work to do, though. if you add 4x4 or double cab you can't find any 24's.... so it's definitely a work in progress.

 

It won't let me even see 2024 (assume because there are none).

 

getting them as well... bloated with garbage

 

just got off the phone with the sales manager again... his system is showing the wrong engines, won't show him the packages nor break down the prices of those packages for him or contents yet... He said Monday afternoon everything should be ready to go for him and to wait until then. he was shocked at the SR5 pricing as well, and when I told him what the upgrade plus heat/cold weather package was he said he hadn't even seen that information come out yet... so I think we have a better perspective on actuals than some of the dealers right now.

which brings us back to TUESDAY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7p2ogicS1U

 

Will wait for the v6 engine option

 

You will unfortunately be waiting a long time or buying a Ranger or Frontier.

 

You've seen the videos. They made the standard bed smooth and slippery, so you'll need a spray-on bed liner to get some texture on it.

 

May be, but some reviewers after the embargo lifted have said that the interior at least will not be smooth plastic. Hopefully the same applies to the bed. Will say as insulting as add ons are, spraying the composite bed is vandalism to me and I’d probably pass on a Tacoma if it had it.

 

^The spray-in bedliner is likely a port option, so the dealer may not have a choice. Not even that profitable for the dealer:



As early as 2005 when the 2nd gen composite bed first made its debut, some people were spraying bedliner on it to make it less slippery. I personally don't think it's necessary but wouldn't reject a truck if it had it.