Hello Tacoma World!

Hello Tacoma World! I'm pretty excited to be here finally.

I started with a BMW 330i (E90), I went on a Jeep tour in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado, the feeling of being in the mountains changed my life and my perspective. I immediately came back and bought a brand new 2014 2 door Jeep Wrangler Rubicon as I wanted to get out to remote places and travel more.

After spending way too much money on it building the Jeep as your typical rock crawler, I came to the realization that I'm not a rock crawler, at all. That was my bad. Plus, the Jeep was a TERRIBLE highway vehicle for me. To get to the trails you first have to put some miles on the highway.

Shortly after, I started looking at Toyota as an overloading platform, so I traded the 2014 Wrangler and bought a 2015 Toyota 4Runner Trail. It was hands down a much better platform for my girl and I. However, when I bought it I had already had my eyes on the 3rd Gen Tacoma, but didn't have the discipline and patience to wait on the new Taco. After a year of ownership and 20K road trip miles to Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas we thought it was time for a truck bed for paddle boards, canoes, a dog, extra fuel, and a roof top tent.

By chance, our local Toyota dealership had a brand new 4x4 TRD Off Road. They gave me more money for the 4Runner than what I originally bought it for new and I had positive equity already in it. They cashed out my extended warranty I had with the 4Runner and used that towards the final price of the new Taco. So, with the positive equity and cashing out of my extended warranty, I drove off the lot with my new Tacoma and a monthly savings of $150/month over the 4Runner. I was pretty happy.


Check it out!

 

Welcone to TW. Hopefully you'll stick with this one.

 

Nice truck, congrats!

 

Sick truck! Welcome to the gang!

 

Cheers for the positive equity maneuver. Welcome to the site.

 

Congrats on your new Tacoma and welcome!

 

Nice rig, welcome to TW