I’m awfuly glad everyone made it out of this ok. I’m familiar with the area that the wreck happened and each time I drive up around there people drive like damned maniacs.

I don’t get the sizes of most “medium sized” trucks today. The Colorado, New Tacoma, Frontier and whatnot are all rather large and as you mentioned, close to the same price as the “full size” trucks.

Well, here’s the deal. Before the Tacoma I owned a 88' Celica. That car had power everything. Power seats, mirrors, windows, popup lights, even a power antenna. All of that crap had problems all the time. So when I traded it in I decided to go stark opposite. Bench seats, crank windows, no nuttin’ because my theory…

Truck prices are just insane now in general. I bought my Tacoma new for I believe around $11k. Most small trucks were about like that back then. My Dad recently sold his old Tundra and bought a new one. $40,000! And its not the fully trimmed one either. My wife would like for me to sell my old Tacoma and get some sort…

Yeah, me too. Seems like half the neighbors around me drive ancient old 80's and 90's Camrys.

Well... eventually they “learned me” to do it when I bought the Celica. We had a steep gravel driveway and Dad would have me park at the top and then try to put it in gear. God it was horrible! But anyway I swear I’m the only person in my group of friends and my Wife who can drive stick, which seems sad to me.

I sort of hope mine will have some catastrophic problem. But its also that I have had it for so long that its almost like an old family member and it would be sad for me to sell it.

Yeah, me too. And mine is the crappy little 4 banger, 2Wd version.

Have you owned it since new? Thats impressive!

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Believe it or not I’ve owned a Tacoma now for over 20 years. Its actually been very good. But I don’t live where it snows and so don’t suffer the rust problems these seem to have. I think the 4 bangers in the Tacomas are a lot easier to work on and service than the old 22R’s found in the 80's Toyotas too. I remember…

I beat all those folks: I’ve had my Tacoma now for almost 22 years so far. Bought it brand-new off the lot back in 1996. It was a fleet truck with no radio or anything.

French Onion Soup:

Here’s what KILLS me. So back when I was in high school ( early 90's) my Dad had a 88' 4Runner. It was in immaculate condition, had manual locking hubs- the whole nine yards. Dad offered to sell it to me for $1,500 as a way to build up credit. I said no because I didn’t know how to drive a manual transmission. He…

I have a 2011 Chevy Volt I bought for dirt cheap since these things lose value like mad for some reason. But it has an engine AND a big battery. It is ridiculously complicated and so far at 100,000 miles I’ve been lucky and the only thing I’ve had to do was replace the 12 volt starter battery, which was in the trunk…

Absolutely. Its puzzling to me why other automakers seem so hell-bent on taking an ICE carcass and shoving batteries in it. That makes no sense. It totally ruins the potential handling, range and modularity of the EV. They probably do so because as it was shown with Tesla, who spent years designing their platform, its…

Seems like people my age ( almost 40) are driving the prices of these things. I too am thinking about getting an old 80's Toyota truck because my Dad drove them and compared to today’s trucks, which seem more like Cadillacs for overweight suburban rednecks filled with electronic crap and interiors not made to get…

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Let’s see the actual car, the cost, the production plans, the battery supplier and then maybe we can talk. But so far all I’ve seen from German automakers in terms of EVs have been somewhat muted or even laughable. Take the Audi E-tron for example: $40,000 and a 16 mile EV range... whoopeee... Even the BMW i3 at this…