With the new frame come some 4Runner baubles, including optional electronic stability control, panic brake assist, and hill-descent control. Meanwhile, the manually telescoping steering wheel (it tilts, too) is rare in this breed of vehicle. More-vivid green-on-black displays would solve this. Its real flaw: The radio's LCD vanishes in a daytime sunshower, as does the digital temperature and compass display in the ceiling. It's not boring, or even ugly, but it may seem dated when the industry finally tires of plastic painted like naked aluminum. Vogue flourishes include the ringed tubes housing the LED-illuminated gauges and a metalized plastic façade that makes the center console look like the love interest from I, Robot.
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Wrapped in a dimpled skin of matte-finish molded plastic, the dash looks too fancy for four-wheelin'. Cubbies behind and under the seats are perfect for storing Canadian-government-issue medicinal hashish as you zigzag across the Alaska/Canada border. Headrests pruned and bottom cushions tilted forward, the back bench splits 60/40 and folds into a flat cargo shelf.
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The Tacoma's 23-degree rear-seatback rake will have you pawing for a TV remote. Accessed through large doors, the back seat feels comfier than in some compact sedans, an achievement in this class of cramped quarters (the new, larger Chevy Colorado and GMC Canyon are exceptions). Front and rear seating room in the Double Cab increases. However, the five-foot box pictured here is shorter than its predecessor by 1.2 inches and narrower at the rim by about an inch. This Double Cab Tacoma is substantially larger than its predecessor, by 4.3 inches in width, 1.4 in height, and 5.2 in length. Parents are picking up pickups nowadays, and Toyota followed the industry in parsing growth inches to the cabin rather than the cargo area. Except for some gearbox rattle in first (possibly a fault of our preproduction unit) and the thrum of the stocky V-6, it drives like a Camry with a lift kit. Generous sound insulation hushes the cabin against wind noise and pebble spray from the wheels. The result is a ride expunged of creaks and body shivers, even when clobbered by the mini-McKinley frost heaves between Fairbanks and Buckshot Betty's diner in Beaver Creek, Yukon Territory. A thick box-section front member, seven cross members, and a center section of reinforced steel C-channel contribute to increased frame stiffness (and weight, about 350 pounds across the line), Toyota says. The Tacoma pickup and the 4Runner sport-ute now share the frame of the mid-size Toyota Prado, a sort of low-carb Land Cruiser sold in overseas markets. Hino won Toyota's internal design competition by turning up the Tacoma's testosterone with square shoulders, fender arches, and a Kenworth-compatible grille. Styling and development duties went to Hino, Toyota's heavy-truck subsidiary in Japan, even though the Tacoma sells exclusively in North America. But max towing capacity rises 1500 pounds to 6500 with a V-6 and the towing package. Payload capacities drop about 100 pounds, probably because the front-disc, rear-drum brakes already must cope with higher curb weights. Dealer add-ons include bicycle clips, cargo dividers, and a tailgate fence that extends the bed floor. Four tie-down cleats rated for 220 pounds each slide on rails, and D-rings bolted through the box will take 440 pounds each. The former is available only on the Double Cab. The two pickup boxes, with their inner walls and floor now formed from nonrusting, nondenting sheet-molded composite plastic-no need for a bed liner-are 60.3 inches and 73.5 inches long.
There are three cabins: the two-door regular cab the larger Access Cab with two rear-hinged half-doors and the big billy-bob limo, the four-door Double Cab. LOWS: Some powertrain noise, disappearing radio display. HIGHS: It's a Toyota, more generous back seat, a bigger V-6, interior trimmings fit for a car. Although prices were not announced before deadline, Tacoma stickers will assuredly climb a few percent across the extensive mix-'n'-match catalog of cabs, pickup boxes, and powertrains when the truck arrives in dealerships this month. It's longer, wider, roomier, smoother, and a whole bunch of other -ers, including heavier and pricier. Yet, the truck, which isn't assembled in Tuntutuliak or even Tacoma but in Freemont, California, is thoroughly reborn. The Tacoma serves up the winning Toyota recipe by the bucketful. As they say in Tuntutuliak, if the customers want seal meat, don't bring back a walrus.
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