Hello, toyota? I just test drove your new 4 cylinder tacoma, and it made me feel LIKE A PIECE OF SHIT
Toyota fucked up when they switched from the V6 to a turbo 4 for the Tacoma. Now the Nissan Frontier is superior.
>>28904348>Now the Nissan Frontier is superior.
just as keikaku
>>28904355>keikaku means plan!
>>28904322FUCK SALT!
>>28904322Being the proud owner of a NA V6 6M pro Tacoma I am quite surprised they thought a 4T was a good idea. These trucks are gutless with the V6, I can only imagine how bad it is with an over stressed 4T. What it really needed was a small displacement V8.
>>28904322i hope this is the puff daddy version of this song, not that stingPIECE OF SHIT!
>>28904420I’ve got a 2019 4Runner TRD Pro and gutless is exactly how I’d describe it as well. It feels like no one is home at any throttle position other than wide open. I get that they did that to try to get some efficiency out of the 4.0, but coupled with the 5 speed it’s an absolute dog. I wish they had kept the V6 but put a modern transmission like a ZF8 or some flavor of Aisin 8 or 10 speed behind it. Some close ratios would at the very least make it feel more responsive.
>>28904704I've heard people with the automatic tacomas complain about it hunting horribly. You may be right if they had more gears they could find a better power band to stay in and not feel so sluggish.I have the six speed manual and to make interstate hills at highway speed I have to drop to forth and keep it floored the whole way up the hill. This is loaded down with camping gear but still. A V8 would drastically help. As is I get 15-16 city and 22 highway. I have never seen the 25 out of it. It seem counter productive but I feel if I had a V8 I would get better mileage all around from not having to mat it so much. Then again I might get worse mileage because I just love the induction sound of an NA V8.
>>28904716>hunting horriblyA turbo 4 out of boost with a trillion speed tranny does that. They've got great power delivery when floored, and great economy when cruising on level ground in a vacuum, but as soon as that headwind picks up, or you're pulling a trailer, or you're going up a hill the hunting begins, the boost builds, and the gas mileage falls into the shitter.Here's a cool fun frog fact: My father bought a late GMT400 big block chevy. He occasionally tows cross-country with it. He previously owned a late GMT 900 with the 6.2.And you know what gets better fuel economy when towing? You wanna fucking know? THE BIG BLOCK CHEVY, admittedly only slightly. All of this emissions shit is fuck and hasn't made one damned thing better since the intro of OBD 2 in 1996. I'm entirely convinced that the vast majority of car pollution was in fact caused by broken PCV valves and carburetors failing to be tuned seasonally. Fuel injection (automatic onboard tuning) and OBD 2 (inspection instafail™) fixed both of these problems.
>>28904830I've always heard the joke about big blocks get 9mpg no matter what you're doing. Just cruising or pulling a trailer fully loaded down, 9mpg.
>>28904830I have no experience with Toyota, but on my car its not so much hunting as that it is programmed for fuel economy and picks way too high gears and has no logic to select lower gears for tight turns or steep hills (esp downhill). Also the reviews for the Tacoma were kinda funny like, well we wish it were better than the old one but it's not. Toyota waited 20 years to upgrade the Taco and didn't make it any better except the interior.
