Toyota Tacoma

The Toyota Tacoma Truck is such a fun truck. My husband and I both agree this is the best car we have ever owned. We bought out used and we love it! It rarely breaks down, it gets good gas mileage for a larger vehicle, it has enough power to tow but not so over powered you are burning extra fuel for no reason. It is easy to get in and out and is great with kids. We get a lot of snow where we live and it handles amazing. I recommend getting a lift and larger tires put on it. We are at 180,000 miles and going strong!

The Toyota Tacoma is an excellent, reliable pickup truck.

2001 Toyota Tacoma extended cab 4x4 V6, I added a cold air intake, throttle body spacer, duel exhaust. The truck has noticeably more power with better gas mileage (if you can keep you foot out of it). In the winter I get 2-3 more mpg with the added accessories, summer 1-2 mpg (remember cold air intake). I go off roading a lot and have out performed lots of other 4x4 vehicles. I bought it from the original owner with 28,000 miles on it. As of 11-2006 I got about 45,000 now. I recently added a Leer bed cap, truck looks nice with it and it's great for camping.

Toyota Tacoma 2.4L. SR-5 Extra Cab Truck Review

I purchased the 4 cylinder model after a test drive proved it to be more than capable for what I needed. The 142 HP 2.4L. DOHC Engine was enough to carry that 2,800 lb truck with enough spunk to satisfy. Most of the power was found mid-band but the lower rpm's didn't suffer nor was it afraid to rev. Front disc / rear drum brakes did well to stop the near-17 foot long truck safely.

It was an auto-shift SR-5 extra cab with A/C and a factory cassette unit that was quick to come out and replaced with a righteous Kenwood CD player.

It had dual airbags but the passenger side could be disabled with the ignition key via a keyhole located in the dash.

I purchased the truck for a haggled-for discounted price of $15K. I owned the truck for approximately 2 years. I sold it for $12K which means I paid only @$125 per month ($3K cost for 2 years) in the end to drive that new vehicle. A little more if you want to get specific and count the taxes and finance costs. *This is one of the things that make Toyota special!*

During that 2 years I put over 70K miles on it. Needless to say I drive an extaordinary amount of miles because of my work and lifestyle.

In the period of time I owned the truck I had experienced absolutely no problems whatsoever. Which you would expect from a Toyota with only 2 years and 70K miles under it's belt. Only the normal maintenance of oil changes, tires and brakes. However, there at the end of my possession of the truck I noticed that between "extended" periods of time between oil changes there were small amounts of oil loss due to oil burning which, with my experience with Toyota, is normal. I've owned several used and new Toyotas. It seems that, especially around the 100K mile area, Toyotas will burn oil. However they will continue to run virtually forever...so long as you keep a watch on that oil level and/or change it more frequently. I generally wait 5K-8K miles (!) between changes (I know - BAAAD)

How happy do you think I am in our modern society that technological advancements has brought us synthetic oils that can go up to 10K miles between those pesty intervals.

Before anyone makes a move to spank me, just know that I do keep maintenance pretty much on schedule as often as possible.

I know, I know...damn American's.

But there's still hope for us yet. As soon as we stop calling Football *Soccer* and switch (finally) to the metric system.

...yeah, it'll be OK. I promise.

:'D

WOW!!!!!! The truck is awesome for burnouts with the supercharged Tacoma.

I have a 2001 Toyota Tacoma Ext,Cab. I recently had the TRD Blower installed and boy: "WHAT A FEELING".

My truck only had 15k mileage at the time of installation and by letting my local dealer (MALL OF GEORGIA TOYOTA) do the installation it became a covered part under my 6/60 powertrain warranty.

Overall the Toyota Tacoma truck kicks ass!!! I've got the supercharged version by TRD.