TOYOTA TACOMA - Everything You Need to Know | Up to Speed
**The Evolution of the Toyota Tacoma**
When they unveiled the second-gen Toyota Tacoma at the Chicago Auto Show, this new Taco was bigger and more powerful. With between transmission engines, cabs, and bed options, you could get it in a mind-boggling 18 different configurations. The Tacoma's 4-liter one GRE EFI V6 took the place of the original V6, now putting out 236 horsepower and 266 pounds of torque. It also meant the truck had a tow rating of 6,500 lbs and a payload capacity of 1,650 lbs.
Toyota also introduced an EX Runner trim, which replaced the slow-selling SR Runner. The EX Runner was lowered to 8 inches from the factory and featured the new V6 paired with a 6-speed manual. It had 18-inch alloy wheels and an X-brace suspension package.
The TRD Tacoma, in addition to its customary suspension upgrades, got downhill and hill-start assist control. Oh, and that pesky Ranger that edged out the Tacoma in 2004? In 2005, Toyota took the crown, selling more small trucks than Ford by 48,000 units.
More safety features were added in 2009, making the TRD one of the only small pickups that was an IIHS Top Safety Pick. In 2012, Toyota gave the Tundra a thorough refresh, including a refined exterior and completely redesigned interior. The hood, grille, headlights, and front bumper were updated, while the cab enjoyed a new center instrument panel and a gauge cluster that was both modern and primal.
The third-gen Tacoma was officially unveiled at the Detroit Auto Show in January 2015. The truck was bigger yet again, with an exterior profile inspired by the 2014 4Runner and Tundra. They added more high-strength steel to the frame for rigidness and decreased weight. The suspension, rear diff, and rear axle were all tweaked to improve the trucks' on-road manners while still keeping it off-road capable.
To make the interior more luxurious, they added a noise-dampening windshield, better-insulated doors, and more weather stripping to reduce road and wind noises. Now your Taco wasn't crunchy; it was soft – because it's quiet, and because not all off-road surfaces are created equal.
The tech-heavy TRD Off-Road featured Terrain Select mode, which allowed the driver to steer through rough terrain while the truck managed braking and acceleration by itself. All this stuff was happening with the Tacoma, but there was one little thing that had been plaguing Toyota's little dude: rust.
More specifically, frame rust. So much rust that in November of 2016, Toyota Motor Corp agreed to a settlement of up to $3.4 billion for a federal class-action suit brought by US owners of pickup trucks and SUVs whose frames could rust through. That's not a part you want left in through – okay, that's like your skeleton; it's a taco taco egg that tacos tacos tacos.
The proposed settlement covered about 1.5 million Tacoma compact pickups. Toyota admitted no liability but said, "We want our customers to have a great ownership experience, so we are pleased to resolve this litigation in a way that benefits them and demonstrates that we stand behind the quality and reliability of our vehicles."
They agreed to inspect vehicles for 12 years from the day they were first sold. If they found the frames needed to be replaced, Toyota would pay for it. They also agreed to reimburse owners who previously paid for the frame replacement.
I'm glad we got that all behind us, perhaps to distract from their little oxidation snafu, Toyota chose late 2016 to introduce the very distracting TRD Pro Tacoma for the 2017 model year. This baby's more loaded than a buff horse – let's make it a thing, guys! That horse has so much mass and he's so cut; let's do this.
They sold about 200,000 of these bad boys in the first year. It's got TRD Pro catback exhaust, a TRD Pro skid plate, LED fog lights, a heritage-inspired Toyota grille, and hi-tech Fox shocks. The third-gen 2017 Tacoma set a new sales record for the model, meeting more people than ever are gonna be charging trails in the baddest truck out there – it's badass Chuck, then change the world!
This Taco's for you, Toyota! Little soggy ASMR bite
WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: ennaw dude can't cover your shift going down to sauna this weekend gonna pick up my buddy Blake at Pendleton on the way down first time out since I put the 33 s on it rooster tail all day dude definitely gonna go to waters eatin talkers in my taco oh alright you off-road junkies this is everything you need to know to get up to speed on the toyota tacoma toyota sold their first car in america in 1958 and immediately began winning hearts and minds with affordable fun reliable automobiles in 1970 they brought over a few of their little Hilux trucks rear wheel drive mighty Mouse's that got the job done unnamed in America their Toyota truck started showing up on us roads and farms alike it evolved over the years mostly influenced by sales in Japan and Australian markets the American truck market was so much of an afterthought for Toyota that for 20 years they didn't even bother to give the truck a name over here in 1984 a little experiment for American buyers better known as the failure runner started making a new name for Toyota the 4runner was built on the sr5 Hilux chassis and as it became more robust so did Toyota's pickup thanks to the 4runner success in America both it and the Toyota pickup got an overhaul in 1989 shout-out to Taylor Swift and Toyota got motor trends Truck of the Year this was when Kevin hunter a young hotshot designer asked to take the reins crafting an uncompromising lee new bold vision for Toyota's off-road pickup guys let me take the reins crafting an uncompromising lee new bold vision for Toyota's off-road pickup and Toyota was like cool you can do that with the green light from the higher ups his team rolled up their little sleeve ease and got to work Rita's finding the look of Toyotas truck and by 1993 a whole two years before my boy post Malone was born they got patents in both America and Japan the new truck didn't look like a big old box popped on top of a chassis it had sleek flushed curved headlights and a more integrated grille and bumpers it looked like an angry muscular sexy horse I'm sorry that's redundant all horses are sexy hashtag buff horses I want you guys to love buff horses so much that we have to make a shirt that says buff horses on it speaking of shirts we have a ton of new merch in the donut store it says lightning lightning lightning lightning you ever heard of it go to donut Mediacom and get you some anyway back to the story the new Toyota truck would have a wider wheel base and better handling better comfort that our safety better payload basically everything that makes a truck a good truck they got more of Toyota looked at their new pick up and decided for the first time in America they had a truck so good that they had to give it a name I can relate I didn't get a name until I was 12 years old my parents just referred to me as that one it wasn't until a amazing teacher miss Jan said you know what kid you deserve a name I was like cool and she was like how about James I'm like okay it's kind of silly and she's like yeah but so are you thanks miss Jan I'm named James but what were they gonna call their truck you already know what it is it's the name of the episode you clicked on it Toyota Tacoma the arrival of the I don't know what a Tacoma is I assume it's some sort of outdoorsy mountain it's named after a city in Washington just as postman was taking his first breaths the first Toyota Tacomas rolled off the assembly line for the 1995 model year and they were offered with three different power plants ranging from four cylinders each making a ballpark of 150 Hurst prayers and 170 ish pounds of torque to a 3.4 liter v6 pack in a cool 190 hers purrs and 220 pound feet of sweet hauling torts in 1998 Toyota released the Tacoma prerunner a sporty two-wheel driver with the bigger engines for those who wanted the power and the bigger higher body but didn't care about getting up in over rocks and bumps and mud and such oh my technically the word prerunner refers to a vehicle that preen runs an off-road race course it's not the race truck but it can give you some practice and you learn the course without digging up your precious doping to the dings let people know your truck oh there's dings all over this thing this guy trucks this is why I cheat on you Jarrod oh this dude definitely trucks oh here's a little Easter Egg for you truck pervs you can tell those two-wheel-drive cute little four cylinders from the heavy haul and four-wheel drive and prerunner tacoma's by the number of lug nuts the little guys got five and the big dogs got six impress your friends and no one else also in 98 the supercharged TRD Tacoma up the output of that beast 6 to 254 perseveres that taco is giving me a supercharged TRD right now Toyota's racing division will also bequeath under the Tacoma a locking rear differential and Hardy or suspension for those off-roaders with more ambition the TRD Tacoma was available as both extended cab and crew cab the Tacoma got a facelift grille headlights and all that jazz and they announced the S runner package which came with 16-inch alloy wheels a five-speed manual transmission god save the manuals and tokiko gas shocks each successive Tacoma sold better than the one before and by 2003 the Tacoma had gained over 16% sales since its release by the start of 2004 it was almost the leader in its class ahead of the Nissan Frontier in the Dodge Dakota but still just 2.2 percent behind the Ford Ranger sounds like it's time for an unveiling you see from 2000 to 2004 while its competitors were worried about the current tacoma's Toyota was developing the second gen Tacoma under chief engineer takua Kubota designer moon er you guys you just can't put him that close together designers Shakya hitori and hadeel car coma 1 an internal design competition in the winner of the internal design competition Segarra tory and hadoo oh my god dude I told you we'd win oh man I think deep down I knew it too I was just scared to get so excited tacos on us tacos on us at the after-party that decision brought the design headquarters back to Hino Japan in the Land of the Rising Sun Toyota tests of mules prototypes and a final production version until February 2004 when they unveiled the second gen Toyota Tacoma at the Chicago Auto Show this new taco was bigger and more powerful and between transmissions engines cabs and bed options you could get it in a mind-boggling 18 different configurations the Tacomas 4 liter one GRE EFI v6 took the place of the original v6 now the Tacoma could put out 236 her Spurs and 266 pounds of torque it also meant the truck had a tow rating of 6500 Libs and a payload capacity of 1,650 libs Toyota also introduced an ex runner trim x1 above the ex runner trim took the place of the slow selling S runner the ex runner was lowered to inches from the factory and featured the new v6 paired to a 6-speed manual it had 18-inch alloy wheels and an X brace suspension package the TRD Tacoma in addition to its customary suspension upgrades got down hill and hill start assist control oh and that pesky Ranger that edged out the Tacoma in 2004 in 2005 Toyota took the crown so in 48,000 more small trucks than Ford suck it Henry more safety features were added in 2009 making the de coma one of the only small pickups that was an IIHS Top Safety Pick in 2012 Toyota gave the tundra a thorough refresh including a refined exterior and completely redesigned interior the hood grille headlights and front bumper were updated in the cab drivers enjoyed a new center instrument panel and a gauge cluster that was both modern and primal like paleo the third gen Tacoma was officially unveiled at the Detroit Auto Show in January 2015 the truck was bigger yet again with an exterior profile inspired by the 2014 4 runner in tundra they added more high-strength steel to the frame for rigidness and decreased weight the suspension rear diff and rear axle were all tweaked to improve the trucks on-road manners while still keeping it off-road capable to make the interior more luxurious they added a noise dampening windshield better insulated doors and more weather stripping to reduce road and wind noises now your taco wasn't crunchy it was soft because it's quiet and because not all off-road surfaces are created equal the tech-heavy TRD off-road featured terrain select mode this baby also got crawl mode that let the drivers steer through rough terrain while the truck manages braking and acceleration by itself all this stuff was happening with the Tacoma there was one little thing that had been plaguing Toyota's little dude all pickups between 2005 and 2010 rust more specifically frame rust so much rust that in November of 2016 Toyota Motor Corp agreed to a settlement of up to 3.4 billion dollars for a federal class-action suit brought by us owners of pickup trucks and SUVs whose frames could rust through that's not a part you want left in through ok that's like your skeleton it's a it's a taco taco egg that tacos tacos the proposed settlement covered about 1.5 million Tacoma compact pickups Toyota admitted no liability but said we want our customers to have a great ownership experience so we are pleased to resolve this litigation in a way that benefits them and demonstrates that we stand behind the quality and reliability of our vehicles they agreed to inspect vehicles for 12 years from the day they were first sold if they found the frames needed to be replaced Toyota would pay for it and they agreed to reimburse owners who previously paid for the frame replacement I'm glad we got that all behind perhaps to distract from their little oxidation snafu Toyota chose late 2016 to introduce the very distracting TRD pro Tacoma for the 2017 model year this babies more loaded than a buff horse let's make it a thing guys that horse has so much mass and he's so cut let's do this they sold about 200,000 of these bad boys in the first year it's got TRD pro catback exhaust a TRD pro skid plate LED fog lights a heritage inspired Toyota grille and hi-tech Fox they have the best in the biz brand internal bypass shocks the third gen 2017 Tacoma set a new sales record for the model meeting more people than ever are gonna be charging trails in the baddest truck out there it's badass Chuck then change the world this tacos for you Toyota little soggy ASMR bitenaw dude can't cover your shift going down to sauna this weekend gonna pick up my buddy Blake at Pendleton on the way down first time out since I put the 33 s on it rooster tail all day dude definitely gonna go to waters eatin talkers in my taco oh alright you off-road junkies this is everything you need to know to get up to speed on the toyota tacoma toyota sold their first car in america in 1958 and immediately began winning hearts and minds with affordable fun reliable automobiles in 1970 they brought over a few of their little Hilux trucks rear wheel drive mighty Mouse's that got the job done unnamed in America their Toyota truck started showing up on us roads and farms alike it evolved over the years mostly influenced by sales in Japan and Australian markets the American truck market was so much of an afterthought for Toyota that for 20 years they didn't even bother to give the truck a name over here in 1984 a little experiment for American buyers better known as the failure runner started making a new name for Toyota the 4runner was built on the sr5 Hilux chassis and as it became more robust so did Toyota's pickup thanks to the 4runner success in America both it and the Toyota pickup got an overhaul in 1989 shout-out to Taylor Swift and Toyota got motor trends Truck of the Year this was when Kevin hunter a young hotshot designer asked to take the reins crafting an uncompromising lee new bold vision for Toyota's off-road pickup guys let me take the reins crafting an uncompromising lee new bold vision for Toyota's off-road pickup and Toyota was like cool you can do that with the green light from the higher ups his team rolled up their little sleeve ease and got to work Rita's finding the look of Toyotas truck and by 1993 a whole two years before my boy post Malone was born they got patents in both America and Japan the new truck didn't look like a big old box popped on top of a chassis it had sleek flushed curved headlights and a more integrated grille and bumpers it looked like an angry muscular sexy horse I'm sorry that's redundant all horses are sexy hashtag buff horses I want you guys to love buff horses so much that we have to make a shirt that says buff horses on it speaking of shirts we have a ton of new merch in the donut store it says lightning lightning lightning lightning you ever heard of it go to donut Mediacom and get you some anyway back to the story the new Toyota truck would have a wider wheel base and better handling better comfort that our safety better payload basically everything that makes a truck a good truck they got more of Toyota looked at their new pick up and decided for the first time in America they had a truck so good that they had to give it a name I can relate I didn't get a name until I was 12 years old my parents just referred to me as that one it wasn't until a amazing teacher miss Jan said you know what kid you deserve a name I was like cool and she was like how about James I'm like okay it's kind of silly and she's like yeah but so are you thanks miss Jan I'm named James but what were they gonna call their truck you already know what it is it's the name of the episode you clicked on it Toyota Tacoma the arrival of the I don't know what a Tacoma is I assume it's some sort of outdoorsy mountain it's named after a city in Washington just as postman was taking his first breaths the first Toyota Tacomas rolled off the assembly line for the 1995 model year and they were offered with three different power plants ranging from four cylinders each making a ballpark of 150 Hurst prayers and 170 ish pounds of torque to a 3.4 liter v6 pack in a cool 190 hers purrs and 220 pound feet of sweet hauling torts in 1998 Toyota released the Tacoma prerunner a sporty two-wheel driver with the bigger engines for those who wanted the power and the bigger higher body but didn't care about getting up in over rocks and bumps and mud and such oh my technically the word prerunner refers to a vehicle that preen runs an off-road race course it's not the race truck but it can give you some practice and you learn the course without digging up your precious doping to the dings let people know your truck oh there's dings all over this thing this guy trucks this is why I cheat on you Jarrod oh this dude definitely trucks oh here's a little Easter Egg for you truck pervs you can tell those two-wheel-drive cute little four cylinders from the heavy haul and four-wheel drive and prerunner tacoma's by the number of lug nuts the little guys got five and the big dogs got six impress your friends and no one else also in 98 the supercharged TRD Tacoma up the output of that beast 6 to 254 perseveres that taco is giving me a supercharged TRD right now Toyota's racing division will also bequeath under the Tacoma a locking rear differential and Hardy or suspension for those off-roaders with more ambition the TRD Tacoma was available as both extended cab and crew cab the Tacoma got a facelift grille headlights and all that jazz and they announced the S runner package which came with 16-inch alloy wheels a five-speed manual transmission god save the manuals and tokiko gas shocks each successive Tacoma sold better than the one before and by 2003 the Tacoma had gained over 16% sales since its release by the start of 2004 it was almost the leader in its class ahead of the Nissan Frontier in the Dodge Dakota but still just 2.2 percent behind the Ford Ranger sounds like it's time for an unveiling you see from 2000 to 2004 while its competitors were worried about the current tacoma's Toyota was developing the second gen Tacoma under chief engineer takua Kubota designer moon er you guys you just can't put him that close together designers Shakya hitori and hadeel car coma 1 an internal design competition in the winner of the internal design competition Segarra tory and hadoo oh my god dude I told you we'd win oh man I think deep down I knew it too I was just scared to get so excited tacos on us tacos on us at the after-party that decision brought the design headquarters back to Hino Japan in the Land of the Rising Sun Toyota tests of mules prototypes and a final production version until February 2004 when they unveiled the second gen Toyota Tacoma at the Chicago Auto Show this new taco was bigger and more powerful and between transmissions engines cabs and bed options you could get it in a mind-boggling 18 different configurations the Tacomas 4 liter one GRE EFI v6 took the place of the original v6 now the Tacoma could put out 236 her Spurs and 266 pounds of torque it also meant the truck had a tow rating of 6500 Libs and a payload capacity of 1,650 libs Toyota also introduced an ex runner trim x1 above the ex runner trim took the place of the slow selling S runner the ex runner was lowered to inches from the factory and featured the new v6 paired to a 6-speed manual it had 18-inch alloy wheels and an X brace suspension package the TRD Tacoma in addition to its customary suspension upgrades got down hill and hill start assist control oh and that pesky Ranger that edged out the Tacoma in 2004 in 2005 Toyota took the crown so in 48,000 more small trucks than Ford suck it Henry more safety features were added in 2009 making the de coma one of the only small pickups that was an IIHS Top Safety Pick in 2012 Toyota gave the tundra a thorough refresh including a refined exterior and completely redesigned interior the hood grille headlights and front bumper were updated in the cab drivers enjoyed a new center instrument panel and a gauge cluster that was both modern and primal like paleo the third gen Tacoma was officially unveiled at the Detroit Auto Show in January 2015 the truck was bigger yet again with an exterior profile inspired by the 2014 4 runner in tundra they added more high-strength steel to the frame for rigidness and decreased weight the suspension rear diff and rear axle were all tweaked to improve the trucks on-road manners while still keeping it off-road capable to make the interior more luxurious they added a noise dampening windshield better insulated doors and more weather stripping to reduce road and wind noises now your taco wasn't crunchy it was soft because it's quiet and because not all off-road surfaces are created equal the tech-heavy TRD off-road featured terrain select mode this baby also got crawl mode that let the drivers steer through rough terrain while the truck manages braking and acceleration by itself all this stuff was happening with the Tacoma there was one little thing that had been plaguing Toyota's little dude all pickups between 2005 and 2010 rust more specifically frame rust so much rust that in November of 2016 Toyota Motor Corp agreed to a settlement of up to 3.4 billion dollars for a federal class-action suit brought by us owners of pickup trucks and SUVs whose frames could rust through that's not a part you want left in through ok that's like your skeleton it's a it's a taco taco egg that tacos tacos the proposed settlement covered about 1.5 million Tacoma compact pickups Toyota admitted no liability but said we want our customers to have a great ownership experience so we are pleased to resolve this litigation in a way that benefits them and demonstrates that we stand behind the quality and reliability of our vehicles they agreed to inspect vehicles for 12 years from the day they were first sold if they found the frames needed to be replaced Toyota would pay for it and they agreed to reimburse owners who previously paid for the frame replacement I'm glad we got that all behind perhaps to distract from their little oxidation snafu Toyota chose late 2016 to introduce the very distracting TRD pro Tacoma for the 2017 model year this babies more loaded than a buff horse let's make it a thing guys that horse has so much mass and he's so cut let's do this they sold about 200,000 of these bad boys in the first year it's got TRD pro catback exhaust a TRD pro skid plate LED fog lights a heritage inspired Toyota grille and hi-tech Fox they have the best in the biz brand internal bypass shocks the third gen 2017 Tacoma set a new sales record for the model meeting more people than ever are gonna be charging trails in the baddest truck out there it's badass Chuck then change the world this tacos for you Toyota little soggy ASMR bite