Why does this truck look weird/ugly??

While doing my daily Tacoma search on Craigslist I find this monster and can’t really figure out what’s going on with it! It almost looks like a 4Runner but also kind of a Lexus. Is it from Canada or something?? Someone please enlighten me!


Here is the ad for it :

https://portland.craigslist.org/mlt/cto/d/20004-toyota-tacoma-double/6353090023.html

 

"reconstructed Title"...kinda looks like a 4runner front end?

 

$19k???

 

Yep limited 4runner front end.

 

Dude couldn't decide if he wanted a 4runner or Tacoma, so he got both....kinda. Lol. Trash price on a rebuilt title clunker though.

 

Very ugly indeed. Reconstructed title do most likely they did the 4Runner front end conversion after it was involved in an accident.

I've seen it done the other way around where the 4Runner got the 01-04 Tacoma front conversion and it looks bad ass.

 

I've seen T4R's with Taco front ends that are pleasant to look at. It would appear the reverse is not so pleasant...

 

Is this a truck from the future???

a "20004" Tacoma?

It's those big ass fender flairs that kill it for me, aside from the rest of the 4Runner front end... Looks goofy. Never really liked it with the plastic stuff on the doors to match the flairs, but this makes it stick out even farther. Too much fake wood, too (any fake, or even real wood, for me is too much, lol)

Almost $20k for a franken truck is a bit much. I bet his wife told him to "try and sell it".

 

I think with a different front bumper it would look a lot better.

 

I noticed that the inside looks just like a 4runner. the AC and heater knobs as well as the center e brake lever. Don't Tacoma have different knobs and the e brake is under the steering wheel?

 

WTF!!!

 

Looks like the engine was swapped as well, 2004 shouldn't have all the evap stuff under the hood and the throttle body looks like a cable controlled unit instead of drive by wire.

 

Ok... so I'll be odd. Though I like stock trucks for most part, I like this. Most likely only one like it. As I sit at any intersection I see Tacomas. All look the same. Many screw them up with their own additions but most still look like the rest. Even now seems everyone thinks they are personalizing with blacked wheels, plastic dip stuff and the same bumpers. Still look all the same. At least all will know this truck from others. Price is way out though.

 

It's a 4Runnacoma, the bastard child of a Tacoma and a 4Runner

Strange looking, indeed....

 

Never liked the "fat lip" 4runner's to begin with.

 

Looks so much better the other way around

 

some one spent a lot of money doing that. it has a 4runner dash and everything. WAAAY overpriced for a rebuilt title though.. Likely built from 2 totaled trucks. a Tacoma and a 4runner.

 

I've always wanted the 4Runner dash due to clock placement. however it took some serious mods to change the e-brake and I can't say i would trust it. also 19k is way overpriced even for an '04 Tacoma with 90k+ that is "rebuilt"

and as @drr pointed out, the '04 should be ETCS, not cable driven TB. they probably swapped in the 4Runner ECM or an earlier Tacoma ECM to manage

 

I'd hit it.