Possibly same cab as 2nd Gen?

Yeah, the cab is the same. Only the outside and inside has been changed.

 

The more I read TW, the more I think most posters have an incurable case of the retards.

 

You and me both, when I first joined in 08 it was informative, helpful, interesting, now...

 

Toyota kept most of the same components from the 2nd gen so that they can keep costs down and transfer the savings on to you. Oh wait.....

 

All that new tech like blind spot monitoring and sunroof must explain the $3k increase...

 

A base or SR5 without all that not needed junk already costs considerably more. Most people already have blind spot monitoring anyway, it's called their eyes.

 

Oh couldnt agree, toyota is gonna capitalize on even more profits for stuff most of us dont need. I dont even use my rearview camera, still turn my head.

 

Camera is nice when you are hooking up a trailer by yourself.

 

Meh, the majority of Tacoma buyers are looking at the Colorado too. Adding all the extra little features will appease 90% of Tacoma buyers that don't need a bare bones truck.

I can understand peoples frustration with the lack of a bare bones model of most vehicles but it's pretty easy to understand the economics of not having crank windows, manual locks, etc etc. The more commonality the better the profitability when costs between each option is small.

BTW the 2015 F150 used roughly the same cabin shape/shell as the 2014 and yet feels completely new. I expect much the same out of the 2016 Tacoma.

 

My 04 Sentra was the only base model on the lot. We bought it for 10,000 dollars plus fees and taxes. It's got the hand crank windows, manual door locks, black door handles and mirrors on a white car, but it does have EFI! It's easy to fix things when they break. The only thing I haven't done myself is replacing the Crank Position Sensor, which is dying on all the forums.

 

These g'loids expect there to be the same difference between gen2 and gen3 that there was between gen1 and gen2. That was when the toyota discontinued their compact truck and created a midsize truck. The only way Toyota could have managed that type of change would be if they discontinued their midsize truck and created a second full size or a new compact truck. What these people are asking for, in terms of "all new", is just not reconcilable with reality. The fact that the cab has the same dimensions has sent them into some kind of angry spastication I just can't understand.

 

Just dump some roids in the gas tank and it will quickly become as large as a full size truck.

it'll get swole

 

What? There was no Super Duty in 1997 lol, it came out in 1999, and it has changed 3 times since then cab and body wise with varying transmissions and engines as well. I have a 1997 Ford Powerstroke and it's the old square body style, the last year before the 99 SD came out in late 1998. Ford stays on top of keeping with the times, being the #1 selling truck in the US they want to keep it modern.

 

I think he meant frame wise. The superduty bones haven't changed in a long time. That being said everything else has changed, so it's not really the same truck anymore. Just like a 2016 Tacoma.

 

That has already been done in a Fiat commercial and it was Viagra.

 

Cab is the same. They have just updated engines, front-end styling etc. over the years.

 

Thats because this forum was banishment from TTORA when you got banned from TTORA you came here.
So early days of this forum was a lot of fun, thats where you see majority of writeup for pretty much everything on 2Gen Tacoma.
Than Honda ditched Ridgeline and all the minivan folks started showing up... That's where we went from informative forum for truck enthusiast to PTO meeting with bunch of soccer moms telling us that safety, and number of cup holders are the most important thing in a truck, because guess this "in their world trucks are no longer used as trucks, they are lifted minivans with bed so MPG is the most important thing on the planet"

Once all those soccer moms take over,,,,,, every forum dies.

 

TBH BlueT I'd much prefer it if Tacomaworld was actually filled with Soccermoms who like minivans over listening to your rants. I can't believe someone would complain about being in the same place as a bunch of soccer moms.



BTW the drop off in information probably has to do with the age of the 2nd gen. I've found tons of DIY tips and good information that has saved me from having to do an install twice on here. Most of that sort of information comes out in the first 5 or so years after a new truck is released. Once all the good and easy mods are figured out the flow of new information slows down because there isn't much else to write up.

Wait until the third gen comes. Then the information will come fast and furious again.

Why you figure any of the bitching and complaining that you went through there belongs on a thread about the 3rd gen cab, we will never know. You probably needed to collect another paycheck from GM and had to show you were still doing enough trolling on Tacomaworld .

 

Agreed there is more than a few write ups for anything you could want to do to a 2nd gen as well as mods, ideas, etc. I do think though that some of the posts are a bit pointless and silly, posts about gaps on prototypes or taxes and license fees in california, or which model you are gonna get, etc. In an ideal world the forum would be informative and educational rather than random pointless threads about colors and what not. But there's always the search tool.

 

Or if that sort of stuff is bugging you just don't go in the third gen forums for a while.

I was looking into a 2015 Ford F150 back last year and the same sort of speculation dominated F150 forums until Ford started to release more information. Personally I don't mind when people notice small things about the limited amount of information on the Tacoma and start a discussion about it. If I think it's truly silly, like the gap between the cab and the box, I usually don't post. If it's speculation on the engine based on something well thought out and logical, which happens every one or two weeks, then I'm interested. This isn't a forum dedicated strictly to technical data, schematics, etc etc. If it was and those types of posts started to dominate I could see why you are frustrated. TBH though Tacomaworld is a pretty diverse forum of Tacoma owners, Tacoma fans, and people who want to own the Tacoma. It's not hard to see why it is like it is.

As an aside, technical forums with over zealous mods bug me. I've been a member of a few club pages where the mods deleted anything that didn't fit there version of there rules immediately and muzzled people pretty quick. Those forums usually end up being circle jerks for one set of opinions, like BlueT's feelings on an engine he knows nothing about, which end up losing members slowly until they die off because no one wants to hear one guys view on how to do everything. It's counterproductive to building a good forum with good information from all viewpoints when you set up the rules like that.

Anyways, I've seen this discussion come up a few times, that Tacomaworld isn't information based anymore. TBH when you have 150,000 members, and quite a few of that number active, other topics are going to come up. As long as there is an appropriate place for them it's all good IMHO. If you don't like the thread, don't participate.