Buyers looking at Toyota’s midsize off-road pickup now have to consider their use case and budget.
Do you want to go fast or go far? That’s the question Toyota Tacoma Chief Engineer Sheldon Brown posed when I asked how someone chooses whether to buy the. Another question worth asking is, how much is in your budget?
The hybrid system provides only decent fuel economy numbers at 22 mpg city, 24 highway, and 23 combined for both trucks. I didn’t get to drive these trucks on pavement, so I can’t comment on real-world fuel economy. In some ways the Tacoma TRD Pro hits the mark and bests the competition, but in many ways it falls short.When I pointed the TRD Pro down the rock-strewn gravel fire road, my right-seat companion, Andy, a professional stunt driver, told me to hit the hump in the road at 40 mph. That speed would send the truck flying. Any faster and we might land and bury the nose into the ground, much less and we wouldn’t get the air I wanted. I hit 48 mph before the hump, then lifted as instructed by Andy.
The TRD Pro and Trailhunter are 3.0 inches wider than the base Tacoma SR5, which itself is about 3.0 inches wider than the outgoing SR5 model. With the 33-inch Goodyear Territory R/T tires tucked under the bulging fenders, it’s hulking in comparison to an older Tacoma. Sorry kids, 35s aren’t going to fit without rubbing.That wide stance helped give the TRD Pro a stable feeling while blasting around corners and down straights in the dirt on a motocross course.
Interestingly, the TRD Pro checks in with better off-road angles with 11.5 inches of ground clearance, a 35.7-degree approach angle, a 25.3-degree departure angle, and a 27.4-degree breakover angle. Those numbers eclipse the Trailhunter’s 11.0 inches of ground clearance, 35.2-degree approach, 22.3-degree departure, and 24.0-degree breakover angle.
The high-speed off-road TRD Pro is rated to haul up to 1,675 pounds of payload, while the Trailhunter is only rated to haul up to 1,475 pounds with the 5-foot bed, and that drops to 1,425 with the 6-foot bed.
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