Cruise Control Shifting Problems

I bought my 2016 Tacoma in January, it is a 2.7 access cab, 4x4 model and I'm disappointed with a few things. First, it has to have the hardest to accelerate pedal I have ever experienced. While driving down the highway and wanting to accelerate, I would gradually apply pressure to the gas pedal and the truck goes nowhere. I press harder and the pedal is actually resisting me. I then had to arch my back and apply everything humanly possible to make the pedal move. Of course it now does a crazy downshift. Which brings me to my second gripe, when in cruise control, the slightest uphill grade makes the truck downshift and sit at 3900 rpm's just drinking gas like an alcoholic released from a detox center. When I reach the top of the hill it stays in the lower gear and not until I am in a downhill descent will it give up that lower gear. I have two major hills that I encounter every day to and from work and if I take them manually with out cc help then I don't experience the downshift. I know I have the 2.7 and not the v6 but I haven't owned anything other than Toyota's and never experienced this phenomenon. Is the 2.7 just not enough for this truck?

 

The cruise control does that on all Tacoma trucks regardless of engine.

I don't know why you have a hard time with the gas pedal. Our trucks weigh about the same, and I'm pushing more air than you and I get around just fine.

 

I sold Toyota's for 5 years and drove every single model and never experienced this constant downshifting in any model across the board. I have owned Camry's Solara, Corolla, Prius, Celica and a 93 Toyota Pick up with the 22RE engine.

 

If you haven't had this fixed yet...

There may be an issue with your accelerator pedal, there is no throttle cable and should have no restriction as it is a drive by wire system. Traction and stability control may prevent you from accelerating as quickly as you would like.
Also I think I may have seen an ECU recalibration for the new trucks, ask your dealer to look up a TSB for ECU recalibration.