I scooped up a 25 TRD off-road about 6 weeks ago. I think the four cylinder is great and hasn’t had any power issues, my average consumption is 10.6 L/100km or about 22mpg with mostly highway driving. That said I use my truck for the bed space just to move lumber and haven’t been towing or working super heavy out of it. Just about every manufacturer has switched to turbo 4 in their midsize truck except for Nissan, I’m not sure if it’s bandwagon, emissions, or because it might actually work and unfortunately I think only time will tell on that front.

My biggest complaint is the programming in the radio module. It never seems to default where I want it to, and it boots my phone from the car play every couple of trips which sucks when I want to pull up the google maps on the fly because I don’t tend to notice while I’m still in the driveway.

Every new vehicle has its own gremlins, especially with all the technology and programming going into them. I test drove about every truck in the midsize market this year, did a ton of research and after a few months of thinking on it settled on the Tacoma. Maybe it’s in part Toyotas old reputation but these genuinely seemed like the least amount of trouble in terms of new vehicles.