TFL Truck Reports Tacoma Sales Down September 2019

It’s a purebred Fiat.

 

All they're doing is getting people to watch their shows. The more sensational predictions they put out, the more the fan base foams at the mouth.


Toyota should take it as a compliment.

 

^^^ Truth!

 

I sure hope they do a better job than what it looks like in that picture.

 

Yeah who knows for sure. Apparently this is the FIAT that it will be based on:

 

Wow, that looks absolutely horrid...

 

This squinty led drl up top with regular halogens below trend needs to die.

 

Here’s another render someone has done. Clearly no one knows what it will look like.

 

Looking at new cars makes me feel like a crochety old man. I don't like the direction any of them are going.

Maybe I'll just get a warehouse and fill it full of tacos. Then as one rusts away I can unwrap a fresh one.

 

Yeah. The scary thing is that truck isn’t a concept. You can buy one in Europe. It’s a Fiat Toro. Ram will hang a different body on it an call it done I’m sure. They’ll probably offer it in a Jeep brand as well as they’ve done with other Fiat models they brought over.

 

Wait a minute......with a lift and 33” mud terrains the Fiat is not bad. New Dakota might be a Tacoma Killer!

 

Are the headlights down next to the grille or up high under the lip of the hood?

 

I think the actual headlights are the low mounted ones, with the tops LED DRLs like the Jeep Trailhawks (also Fiats). You can see the same styling cues.

 

Good point. I noticed low inventory at the dealership in my town.

 

….another 'Renegade'

 

What do you get when a Ranger, a Ridgeline and a Port-O-Let have a three-way?

 

I believe consumer spending was down across the board. Could be lack of confidence in our economy at the moment. That and I’m sure people are waiting for 2020s to hit the lot.

I wish people would quit buying so many 3rd gens. I see them all over the place and tons for sale around here in the Midwest that lowers resale.

 

It's obviously not a truck guy's truck. It's a truck catering to the "OMG its so CUTE!!" crowd...

 

[But it meant buyers were suddenly spending $35,000 or more on normal family cars, shoving hefty payments into their monthly budgets and getting stuck in loans that lasted into perpetuity. Delinquincies and repossessions are on the rise as well]

https://jalopnik.com/americas-auto-loan-debt-is-truly-out-of-control-1838713860