What other vehicles did you look at before buying your 3rd gen?

I test drove all over the place: All the midsizes, a Sierra, a new F150, a Wrangler, Grand Cherokee etc. I loved the Taco by far the most, if I didn’t care what other people thought and the Taco didn’t exist like others have said I probably would’ve picked a Pro 4x Frontier.

 

2nd Gen's
V8 Runner's
LC 80/100 & Lexus GX/LX

Picked a third for the MT and the fact that it had zero rust on it.

 

im coming from a 13 gli and i agree, totally different. i was thinking about getting the arteon but im way more happy with my taco.

 

I was able to test drive a Colorado ZR2 and although it looked nice and aggressive, the deal breaker was the build quality of it and the rear seats not folding like the tacoma.

 

Nice! Ended up trading in the Tundra or still kept it?

 

Nissan Frontier

 

None really. Replaced 2 FJ’s with a Tacoma and a 4Runner.
Wife started to look at Highlander but heard me call it a minivan..

 

I have a co-worker that has a Colorado Z71 and I'll say I'm glad I didn't end up with one. ZR2 or not. The interior feels a step below the Tacoma IMO. After an hour in both the front and back seats, I'll say there is room for improvement there. The Tacoma seating is far from perfect, but for me, its the best of the mid-size trucks.

 

2nd Gen Taco

 

Traded it in. It was starting to have a lot of expensive issues and I need a reliable vehicle for daily commute.

 

When I was looking for a new vehicle I test drove
-F150: didn’t like how it had more button and electronics than a space ship since I plan to keep my vehicle forever I don’t want something with that much to go wrong.
-Tundra: HUGE truck beautiful but didn’t need that size and didn’t want the fuel bill.
-4Runner: actually what I wanted when shopping but I have 300lbs worth of drooling stinky dogs and didn’t want to throw them inside my truck and stink it up lol!
-FJ cruiser: god I love these things but wanted to have something a little more comfortable for a daily and want to get a MT FJ down the road for pure fun.
-Colorado ZR2: never drove it as I looked inside at the rental car interior and just laughed and walked off the lot.
-Jeep rubicon(buddys): took one for a burn around the block, didn’t hate it but HATE Fiat and refuse to give them any $$ would consider a earlier year one day also as a fun weekend basher.
-Silverado1500 6.2 (buddys): this thing was fast to fast and with B.C. Canada’s new speeding laws and my lead foot I knew it would spend a lot of time on the back of a tow truck on the way to a impound lot same as the F150 too fast!

Finally 2018 off-road Short bed Tacoma. LOVED the looks, LOVED the interior! Loved how the A/T drove. Loved how it big enough and small enough at the same time. Loved looking at fuel economy and seeing the gauge not dive. Went online and watched some guys take stock tacos everywhere off-road. And then my uncle who is also my service mechanic gave me a sweet deal and I knew it the search was over! I strongly recommend you drive everything you can get your hands on so days, weeks, months later you are not sitting in traffic and see another vehicle go by and kick yourself for not buying that instead. Over a year later and still smile when I walk up to my truck and smile the whole time I drive it! I am now a Toyota Fan boy and plan to add ALOT more Toyota’s to the family!

 

300lbs of dogs! Great danes by any chance or 300 chihuahuas? lol

 

VW GTI (my TDI jetta got sent to the grave at 60K mi so that died out)
Ram EcoDiesel (glad I didnt get one after seeing the recalls rn)
Ford F150 FX4 (just looked into it, probably wouldnt buy another ford f150 after my dads 2010 lariat which sucked)
Tundra (Knew for sure it wasnt gonna happen because of MPGs)
Silverado (They change the exterior too often, and MPGs)

 

They both think they are chihuahuas lol!!
100ish pound Rotty Lab
220ish English Bull mastiff

 

Nissan Frontier, Ford F150, & Chevy Colorado.

 

Beautiful dogs!

 

Chevy Colorado but the crawl control sold me on the taco.

 

Thanks! They are two amazing breeds and I’m very lucky to have them!

 

looked at a used tacoma aswell made more sense to put another $5-10k to get something new with everything i wanted

 

None, as my '96 Tacoma has 413,000 trouble-free on it and still going strong, why would I even consider anything other than another Tacoma.