The smaller, midsize truck segment as it is now called is red hot again with a trio of new entries about to shake things up. But no matter what the competition throws at it the Tacoma is the mainstay best-seller. In full disclosure, I own a Tacoma; a 2001 Prerunner that’s been in my family ever since I reviewed it for the show 18 years ago and then bought it …
Toyota Racing Development, or TRD for short, is Toyota's in-house speed shop if you will, providing performance parts and variants of the brand's trucks, like this Tacoma TRD Sport. My first test-drive of this new generation Tacoma came last year in one of the other TRD choices – the Off-Road. I came away largely disappointed with most of my criticism directed at the anemic automatic transmission. The 2017 Tacoma is …
So, I get asked the question a lot “Do you own your own vehicle and if so, what is it?” Well, I do and it’s a 15-year old Toyota Tacoma Prerunner V6 Double Cab. And other than the fact that I wish it had 4-wheel drive, I love it. Which is why I’ve been anticipating this test-week for so long; this is the next-generation, 2016 Toyota Tacoma. If it ain’t …