looking at buying foreign truck.Toyota pre-runner 6 cylinder sport series ,no 4x4.Please give feedback on truck if you own one 2007 or newer.PS i worked at car dealerships in the past,don't give me your buy american bullshit, quality control at foreign factories is much better hands down
pro: change the oil & trans fluid and it'll run at least 350k on the same engine & trans, at least my 4-runner has
con: you won't have a nice brand new car to impress the girls with
jane fonda wrote:
PS i worked at car dealerships in the past,don't give me your buy american bullshit, quality control at foreign factories is much better hands down
Writing this reflects really poorly upon you, not someone suggesting to "buy American", because the Tacoma is an American vehicle. (assembled in Fremont, California)
Every Japanese brand has at least one assembly location in the US (the "most American", and 5 of the top ten "most American" cars in 2010 are Honda and Toyotas)
Further, "buy American" has little to do with it. Frankly, it's about once a week that Toyota announces a NHTSA mandated recall, and the brand just topped the most complaints index.
The past is the past, you may have understood the car environment then, but clearly you need some help now, so disregarding the idea of "buying American" simply because you know about factory quality standards shows you don't know about factory quality standards. Foreign brands have routinely shown more problems, statistically, than domestic. Assembly location literally means nothing, unless you're buying a supercar.
Shop the Ranger, test drive it and the Tacoma on a rainy day, and buy the one you feel best about. The Colorado is a POS, don't bother, and there isn't another comparable truck on the market.
GM went bankrupt and closed NUMMI in Fremont. NUMMI never made Tacomas. Toyota has local assembly plants and licensed assembly plants in hundreds of locations across the earth. The cars are designed and engineered in Japan. Statistically, Toyota is still tops in quality and reliability. Politics aside, it's no wonder that Toyota Trucks are the 1st choice of Al Quaeda, Taliban, Hamas, Hezbollah, and every safari in Amazon, Africa, Himalayas, Sibera, canadian Tundra, ...
Closed wrote:
GM went bankrupt and closed NUMMI in Fremont. NUMMI never made Tacomas. Toyota has local assembly plants and licensed assembly plants in hundreds of locations across the earth. The cars are designed and engineered in Japan. Statistically, Toyota is still tops in quality and reliability. Politics aside, it's no wonder that Toyota Trucks are the 1st choice of Al Quaeda, Taliban, Hamas, Hezbollah, and every safari in Amazon, Africa, Himalayas, Sibera, canadian Tundra, ...
RRRRRR... you're a bigger idiot than the original poster.
Check your facts bro:
Toyota topping NHTSA Complaints in 2010...
http://www.autoblog.com/2010/12/30/report-toyota-recalls-fuel-massive-spike-in-complaints-to-nhtsa/Tacoma Assembly (GM pulled out of NUMMI when they went bankrupt, but Toyota only RECENTLY pulled out, and DID assemble the Tacoma there until the end, when they announced it would move to San Antonio to join the Tundra)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_TacomaOr, the NUMMI page, declaring the fact that the NUMMI plant has had a Toyota Tacoma production line since 1995, until you edit it to say it didn't.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NUMMIBTW, Tesla is producing at the NUMMI plant that you declared closed by GM.
Only sub-assemblies of Tacomas were assembled at Nummi. The trucks were finished in Southern Indiana.
Tesla picked up a small corner after GM went bankrupt and Toyota chose it's own all electric in Japan.
Toyota is the most reliable car in the world today and will remain so. Toyota and dozens of licensed world partners have made Toyota Cars and Trucks the top quality car on the planet.
Toyota invested in Tesla for PR purposes and to seal the battery contract for it's Zaibatsu brother with Tesla.
Toyota has three separate 100% zero-emissions car and truck vehicle projects in Japan and does not want to buy Tesla.
Palo Alto based Tesla bought a small section of the massive GM/Toyota plant that shutdown after Obama took over GM.
Closed wrote:
Only sub-assemblies of Tacomas were assembled at Nummi. The trucks were finished in Southern Indiana.
Tesla picked up a small corner after GM went bankrupt and Toyota chose it's own all electric in Japan.
Toyota is the most reliable car in the world today and will remain so. Toyota and dozens of licensed world partners have made Toyota Cars and Trucks the top quality car on the planet.
Dude, admit it, you are ABSOLUTELY WRONG.
Final assembly DID HAPPEN at Fremont for YEARS and YEARS...
http://www.trucktrend.com/roadtests/pickup/163_0412_2005_toyota_tacoma/specs_overview.htmlGet over it, and regarding reliability, pull your head out of the sand. The brand was slipping in Japan for years, and this is the final blow. It's going to take until 2020 to rebuild the reputation.
They only built Corollas at NUMMI.
Toyota is Number 1 in the world. Honda is #2, Subaru is #3.
If it's your daughter driving in the snow, which car will you buy ?
In hard times go with the best, TOYOTA !
The Feds own GM & NHTSA. NHTSA is a marketing are of GM now. The stats are biased against the competition and should be taken with a grain of salt.
Do you mean to tell me that since Obama bought GM and is pushing GM crap that I should believe that ass and not buy Toyota ? That's the same Obama guy who wants to steal my house in Toledo and give it to a Jew for free because they claim to be the Chosen People, right ?
Buy an American car or lose a degree of credability when complaining about the econonmy
"Pros & Cons of 6-Cylinder Toyota Tacoma?"
always buy a toyota given it has the top reliability and it is the best car that will get you to work and to school which will improve the productivity of the us economy. there's nothing worse than having a lemon that loses money not only for you but reduces the US GDP.
I have an 06 V6 manual trans tacoma. If I had it to do over again, I would not have bought it. I am not that mechanically astute; although I grew up working on my own cars that was a long time ago, pre-computers/fuel injection, etc.
A few things I have noticed: the stock radio is really crappy compared to my previous vehicle, which was a Chrysler product. The clock is inaccurate; I have to adjust it every couple months. The paint has not held up as well as I expected. 3) the clutch failed at 35,000 miles, a $1000 repair.
I do like driving it--plenty of power for passing on the highway, and 20 mpg hwy--reasonable for such a huge truck. No repair issues other than the clutch. Still like I say, I wouldn't buy it again if I could go back. I suggest looking on Edmunds forums.
I wanted to look at one of the Mahindra diesel pickups. They were supposed to have arrived in the US by now. According to my engineer buddy, they have been blocked by some sort of Bush conspiracy. Even though Bush has been out of power for 2 years now.
Work the numbers and Toyota pops out as the only choice.
I owned a 2005 Toyota Tacoma for years and beat the living crap out of the truck driving on obscure dirt roads through Southern Arizona. I never had any problem and the truck held up great. I sold it to a friend who is still driving it without problems.
Most of the reliability issues with Toyota are media hype. The guy who was driving the Prius that would not slow down in California made the whole thing up.
http://jalopnik.com/5491101/did-bankrupt-runaway-prius-driver-fake-unintended-acceleration
Toyota's only real problem was the indifference they showed for the whole situation and now preemptively recall everything early.
Anyways to answer the OPs original question the the Tacoma is a bomber truck and the bad PR for Toyota can only work in your favor. I just bought a Prius with 0% financing at MSRP. You could get a Tacoma for a steal right now.