Thanks for the input, I'm choosing the pickup over the taco for the simple fact that in my area Taco's go for so much more money.
Ahh. I've not priced them, is the price that much different?
The 20R/22R/22RE are really great engines, reliable, 'torquey' and simple to work on. Water pumps are cheap and very easy to replace, it can be done on the side of the road in about 30 minutes. The accessories (air pump, AC compressor, p/s pump, alternator) are easier to work on with a smaller engine block under the hood than the V6. The R series engines contributed a lot to Toyota reputation world wide.
Others have expressed it, but I'd like to stress that I'd recommend avoiding the 3VZ-E V6 and look for a 22R or 22R-E. I had an 88 4R with the V6 for a decade. It was reliable, but complex. For example, the water pump is driven off the timing belt. In the end, a head gasket killed it at 225k miles (it was the original head gasket), it was leaking exhaust gas into the cooling system and had probably been doing so for a couple of years although it wasn't over heating. Generally there is damage to the block that can't be milled/repaired, so it's expensive to get it back on the road how ever you do it once it goes.
Best of luck.