how to buy the exact '21 I want?

boogie3478 · Jan 10, 2021

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Hey everyone,

First post here ... I've been browsing Tacomas lately and I'm just about at the point where I'd like to bite the bullet and get my first.

Every new car I've purchased in the past has just been me settling for whatever happened to be in stock that day. How does one go about buying the exact model they want?

I haven't bothered talking to the local dealership yet, as I rightfully trust car salesmen exactly as far as I can throw their product.

Can you just order the model & spec you want? If so, how do you do it while getting a reasonable price (without signaling to the sales staff that they've got you hook line & sinker)?

My wants:
- army green
- 4wd
- manual
- 6' bed
- one of the cool 360-degree video systems (they seem to go by two different names depending on whether it's a TRD?)
- rear sonar
- misc other bells, whistles

This site's a fantastic resource, I'd really appreciate input on any highlights of stuff listed in the Toyota build UI that are best gotten from Toyota as opposed to later/after market.

Quick takes toyota stock stuff that's inferior to aftermarket or just generally extremely overpriced would be appreciated, too.

After browsing a few posts, I see it's helpful to know what the intended use is when asking for advice... This'll be a daily driver and hopefully get its own four wheel camper someday. It won't primarily be offroading, but that's increasingly the goal.

Any input would be greatly appreciated
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Bryukhanov · May 4, 2021

Be sure you actually see army green in person before buying, when I saw the pictures online I thought wow this is amazing but now I've seen army green's a lot just driving around. And, well it just looks different than I thought. Just trying to help out because new tacoma orders are wayy behind from what I've heard and I love my silver it turned out so awesome with adding a black softtopper and blacking out the wheels. I didn't even want silver at first, I just got it because of the access cab and 6' bed.

If you want to make a 6' bed camper definitely look into getting a black softtopper, lots of threads on here about em, they are just so sexy and weigh less than 30 pounds

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