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Monday Mileage Champion: Tom Tuttle’s Tacoma
My grandma was a bit of a card shark. You name the game, she played it. You would think that she would show a teeny bit of mercy to a six year old kid like me back in the day. Nope. Not a chance....
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A Return To Compact Pickups? Don’t Count On It
The Wall Street Journal‘s recent article on compact pickup trucks and rising gas prices has raised the tantalizing prospect of a return to the glory days of the compact pickups. But from what we hear,...
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GM Will Introduce Two Mid-Size Pickups For 2015
GM will have two new mid-size pickups out in 2015, just in time to steal the spotlight from the all-new Ford F-150. And according to TTAC Commenter and GM exec Mark Reuss, the two trucks should have...
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GM Teases Next-Generation Colorado, Canyon
TTAC readers looking to debate the “mid-size vs. full-size” truck matter have more fodder now that GM has unveiled a teaser photo of their new mid-size trucks. The Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon...
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Editorial: Mid-Size Trucks Don’t Matter
Among the pet segments that enthusiasts hold dear, none has been on a roll the way the mid-size truck market has been. News of the Chevrolet Colorado’s return, along with diesel and manual...
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Toyota Considers Increasing Capacity at San Antonio Truck Plant as Tundra...
Toyota is examining the feasibility of increasing capacity at its San Antonio factory that assembles fullsize Tundra and compact Tacoma pickup trucks. Toyota division general manager Bill Fay said,...
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Chicago 2014: Toyota TRD Pro Ups The Off-Road Ante
With Toyota serving as the market leader in body-on-frame trucks (the Tacoma, Tundra, 4Runner and now departed FJ Cruiser), taking aim at the off-road segment seems like a logical next step for their...
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Toyota Boosting Capacity To Crank Out More Tacomas
Toyota’s lone Mexican assembly plant will boost output by as much as 40 percent to increase production of the Tacoma mid-size pickup truck starting in April, 2015. Automotive News is reporting that...
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Toyota Will Introduce Redesigned Tacoma At Detroit Auto Show
After over a decade without any substantial changes, Toyota is finally redesigning the mid-size Tacoma pickup for 2016. Set to debut at this year’s Detroit Auto Show, the Tacoma’s updates are...
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2016 Toyota Tacoma Revealed
No details have been released, but hit the jump for a full gallery of photos. The post 2016 Toyota Tacoma Revealed appeared first on The Truth About Cars.
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Editorial: Someone Is Making Money In Mid-Size Trucks
Hats off to Toyota. With the release of the revised 2016 Tacoma, they sit ready to be both the reigning king of the mid-size truck market, and the auto maker that is best positioned to profit off this...
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DIY Recall: Fix Your Fire-prone Chevy Colorado and GMC Canyon with Toyota Parts
Left: Updated Tacoma Resistor, Right: Colorado Resistor The fire-risk blower motor resistor harness has been recalled in the Hummer H3 and owners will start receiving repairs once parts become...
View ArticlePiston Slap: My Pick Up’s Failing Clutch Pick Up?
TTAC Commentator halftruth writes: My 2012 Tacoma has a temperamental clutch. Sometimes it catches high, sometimes low. This is most annoying on a grade when the pedal comes up and very little happens,...
View ArticleA Selective History Of Minitrucks, Part Two: The Empire Strikes Back, Then...
In Part One of this minitruckin’ history, we covered how the Big 3 provided their dealers with “captive import” minitrucks from Mazda, Isuzu, and Mitsubishi during the Seventies. By 1975 or...
View Article2016 Toyota Tacoma Limited Review – Off-road Taco Truck [Video]
Toyota’s small trucks have long been associated with bulletproof reliability (and occasionally militant militias). Despite the Tacoma splitting from the legendary Toyota Hilux bloodline in 1995, the...
View ArticleToyota’s Online Configurator Doesn’t Work How You Think It Works
We try to fact-check as much as possible during our article editing process. Such was the case this morning with Alex Dykes’ review of the newest Toyota Tacoma, and specifically the portion where he...
View ArticleWant Your Vehicle to Retain its Value? Make Sure it’s Big, or Bigger
If you’re looking to get the most money back when you drop your car onto the used market in five years, better get into something large and utilitarian. Large and midsize trucks and SUVs grab the top...
View ArticleMidsize Pickup Trucks Jump 29% In July 2016 As Full-Size Pickup Sales Level Off
Midsize pickup truck sales shot up 29 percent in the United States in July 2016, enough to drive the sub-sector’s share of the overall pickup category up three points to 17 percent. Indeed, without the...
View ArticleToyota Tacoma Production Is Maxed Out As The Midsize Pickup Truck Category...
America’s midsize pickup truck segment grew 19 percent in the first seven months of 2016. But as demand for midsize pickups expands throughout the remainder of 2016, it’s increasingly unlikely that the...
View ArticleToyota to Boost Tacoma Production as Midsize Sales Lead Slips
The Toyota Tacoma entered the year in an enviable position. Soaking up nearly half of all sales in the growing midsize pickup segment, the venerable nameplate’s spot on top of podium seemed unshakable....
View ArticleRusty Frames Leave Toyota on the Hook for Billions
Rust, as Neil Young once said, never sleeps, and neither will Toyota — at least, not until it has fulfilled its 12-year promise to inspect and replace (if necessary) hundreds of thousands of corroded...
View Article2017 Toyota Tacoma TRD Off-Road Review – Toy in Waiting
If you want a new midsize truck, you have four-and-a-half options. The geriatric but delightfully trucky Nissan Frontier, the recently reintroduced unibody Ridgeline, the insipid GM Colorado/Canyon...
View Article2016 Was The Year Midsize Pickup Trucks Fought Back
Five members strong, America’s midsize pickup truck sector reported nearly 450,000 sales in 2016. After claiming only 11 percent of the overall pickup truck market’s volume in 2013 and 2014 and 14...
View ArticleAmerica’s Midsize Pickup Truck Sales Growth Is Suddenly Slowing – Oh, Ranger,...
Nearly two and a half years since General Motors increased the number of offerings in the midsize pickup truck sector by two-thirds, and nine months since Honda revitalized its unique Ridgeline...
View ArticleToyota Recalls 228,000 Tacomas in U.S. Over Potential Rear-wheel Lockup
Toyota of North America is recalling 228,000 Tacoma midsize pickups from the 2016 and 2017 model years. The affected vehicles may be leaking oil from their rear differentials. If left unchecked, the...
View ArticleQOTD: Get Hi or Have a Taco?
I just had a chance to see the newest version of the Toyota Hilux out on the road. For those of you who don’t waste your time watching Top Gear, the “Hilux” is the newest variant of The Toyota Truck...
View ArticleBy 2020, Toyota Wants to Sell Tacoma Pickup Trucks to All Y’all
There are a number of major consequences springboarding off the early August 2017 announcement that Toyota and Mazda would come together to build an assembly plant in Somewhere, United States. First,...
View ArticleIn an Off-road Battle, Which Midsize Pickup Wins – Chevrolet Colorado ZR2 or...
If you have dreams of racing in Baja, but lack a race team’s budget, it’s a good time to be in the market for a pickup truck. That is thanks to the Chevrolet Colorado ZR2 and Toyota Tacoma TRD Pro, two...
View ArticleToyota Pares Down Mexican Plant Plans, but 100,000 Extra Tacomas Are Still on...
The only thing better than two plants producing North America’s hottest-selling midsize pickup is three plants churning them out. That’s a big part of Toyota’s plan to stay ahead of General Motors and...
View ArticleTruck Buyers Made a Choice in October (and Chose the Bigger One)
So diverse are the trim levels available in a modern pickup truck, it wouldn’t be shocking to see automakers begin offering a “Scotsman” edition, complete with three-on-the-tree shifter, for buyers...
View ArticleToyota’s Truck Production Plans Largely Dependent on NAFTA Existing
Despite President Trump giving Toyota significant praise for its continued investment in the United States last week, the success of the automaker’s production plans hinge on the continuation of NAFTA...
View ArticleU.S. Midsize Pickup Truck Market Share Going Nowhere Fast
As global markets greet new players such as the Mercedes-Benz X-Class and as the North American market prepares to welcome back (later rather than sooner) the Ford Ranger, midsize pickup trucks are no...
View ArticleNovember 2017 Pickup Sales Winners and Losers
Barring a blockbuster December, 2017’s light duty vehicle sales stand to dip below 2016’s record 17.55 million units. The National Automobile Dealers Association forecasts 17.1 million sales in the...
View ArticleMighty Like a (TRD) Pro: Toyota’s 2019 Off-roaders Hit the Gym
It’s leg day at the Toyota Athletic Center. As the Chicago Auto Show kicks off, Toyota has changes in store for its off-road TRD Pro lineup that should help drivers of the brawniest Tacomas, Tundras,...
View ArticleToyota Gaining Ground in Quest for More Light Truck Sales
January was a boffo sales month for Toyota in the United States, with the automaker posting a 16.8 percent year-over-year increase across both the Toyota and Lexus brands. Toyota brand sales rose 17...
View ArticleFebruary 2018 Truck Sales: Healthy Volume Doesn’t always Make for a Happy...
As we told you earlier this afternoon, two of the Detroit Three automakers posted significant year-over-year U.S. sales decreases last month. Ford Motor Company and General Motors both saw American...
View ArticleMarch 2018 U.S. Truck Sales: Springtime for Hauler
With an extra selling day compared to the March that came before it, last month saw U.S. new vehicle buyers continue doing what they’ve done for years. By that, we mean snap up trucks and SUVs like...
View ArticleCross-border Agreement: Midsize Truck Buyers on Both Sides of the 49th...
One country waves the stars and stripes; the other, a big, red maple leaf. One calls those rain catchment thingies gutters, the other (or at least parts of it) insists on calling them eavestroughs. The...
View Article2018 Toyota Tacoma 4×4 TRD Sport Review – Man About Town
Spend a little time in the gentrified corners of your fair city, and in between all the Audi Q5s and Subaru Outbacks jockeying for spots outside the artisan cupcake shoppe, you’ll spy a right-sized...
View ArticleAdventures in Advertising: I Love What You Do for Me, Chuck – Let’s Go Places
If it wasn’t for celebrity ad appearances, I wouldn’t know that Jim Rockford James Garner thinks the Mazda 626 is a great buy, or that Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling chooses the Ford LTD over all...
View ArticleU.S. Midsize Pickup Truck Market Share Is at a Nine-Year High, Just In Time...
Just ahead of the launch of a new Ford Ranger, production of which began earlier this month, midsize trucks’ share of the overall U.S. pickup truck market is up to a respectable nine-year high. Thanks...
View ArticleQOTD: Two Trucks, Once Choice
Advice time. My friend wants (though she might say “needs”) a truck, and the choice is narrowed down to two prospects, each competing for midsize pickup supremacy. Can you help her make a decision?...
View ArticleThe Toyota Tacoma Is Now Much More Than the Top-Selling Midsize Truck – It’s...
One year ago, the Nissan Altima, Jeep Grand Cherokee, Nissan Sentra, Toyota Highlander, and Ford Fusion were all significantly more popular than the Toyota Tacoma. The Altima, for example, sold...
View ArticleOff-Road All the Things: Sequoia TRD Pro, Mildly Refreshed Tacoma Appear in...
Thanks to Toyota’s glacier-like design cycle, the full-sized Sequoia SUV looks largely the same as it did when it rolled off the ark in 2008. With seating for seven, the big body-on-frame rig harkens...
View Article2019 Chicago Auto Show Recap – The Windy City Stirs
Chicago has proven a sleepy show for news for quite some time now. This year, however, there was a hint of something stirring. While there still wasn’t a wealth of product news, there was more than...
View ArticleReport: Toyota Tundra, Tacoma to Share a Platform
What is it with all of this pickup news today? Where are all the new sedans? Oh right. Anyway, in a burst of efficiency-minded thinking, Toyota is reportedly developing a single truck platform to...
View ArticleToyota Sets Aside $391 Million for Texas-made Pickups
Toyota Motor Manufacturing Texas is slated to receive a $391 million investment earmarked for streamlined pickup production. The manufacturer wants to merge the Tacoma and Tundra models onto a common...
View Article2019 Toyota Tacoma TRD Pro Double Cab Review – Not a One-Trick Truck
If trucks are tools, some are meant for just one job, while others are capable of performing multiple tasks. Count the 2019 Toyota Tacoma among the latter. Even the off-road-oriented TRD Pro truck I...
View ArticleToyota Tacoma to Hitch a Ride From the Lone Star State
The perennially popular Toyota Tacoma will move all of its assembly south of the Rio Grande under a recently announced production switch-up. When the ancient Sequoia full-size SUV enters a new...
View ArticleLeaked: Toyota Product Timeline, Other Juicy Tidbits
Here’s a change of pace: something to look forward to! In this instance, it’s a bevy of Toyota products poised to spring forth after this virus thing shuffles beneath the banner of “bad memory.” The...
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