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This truck started life as a TRD Offroad so it's got the standard Toyota 8" axle, in this case a 4-pinion with electronic locker version. It's pretty well known that the 2nd and 3rd gen Tacoma pushes the limit on the axle. Even on the earlier 79-95 mini trucks it wasn't unusual to break them...

I've met Chris a couple of times and my impression is also that he seems like a nice guy so I wouldn't jump straight to it being intentional deception. He keeps a fairly public profile across the various enthusiast sites (Tacoma World, Tundras.com, ExPo) all under the same user name. You can...

The FMTVs use a Caterpillar C7. Some of the MRAPs I think use the Navistar DT engines. They are a little behind mostly being EPA 2007 compliant for 15 ppm sulfur, Tier III, but aren't much different than might have been found in any commercial trucks, school buses, whatever up to 2010. These...

I don't think that my Tacoma is at all under powered. My 22R-E was reliable but it was under powered as an all around truck. It was fine on dirt roads and 2 lane but on Interstates by the middle 2000s it was pretty much dangerously slow, especially trying to merge or pull long high altitude...

So that's 2x the MPG and 2x the GVWR, nice sales pitch for diesel.

Not going to single digit MPG in low range is why I would prefer the option for a diesel. For the Dollhouse in the Maze even being conservative and doing no side trails was 206 miles of 4WD and required 31 gallons of fuel at 8.8 MPG in my Tacoma and two 20L spare cans is a minimum.

@shade, did you ever own a Toyota truck prior to the TRD OR you have now? I absolutely agree that the stock TRD OR suspension on my truck left a lot to be desired on washboard. Basically undriveable with any speed. But in total it was much better than the stock KYB and torsion bars on my...

Risk is of course a factor in any decision. This particular crossing we knocked the lip off and got the first truck across (you actually had to drop in and turn left) without much drama so in hindsight it wouldn't have been an issue solo. But your point is well taken. There wasn't much to...

I think it's maybe a grey area as to what a safe and enjoyable speed might be (one might argue a brand new 4 cylinder 1980s Toyota truck was marginally safe when speed limits went from 55 to 75) but your point is right on. If you've built a truck to the point it's not really suitable for...

As I say never tried two-way but my SPOT has worked fine for the 5 years I've owned it. Following a 3 week mountain bike trip doing the Colorado Trail (Denver to Durango, about 500 miles) I checked the position beacons that were received at 10 minute intervals got through with a 94% success...

LOL, this was along a county road in southwestern Wyoming. His point though is valid, the route selection was specifically to not use pavement so vehicle selection depends on intent. Sure, we could have spent 6 hours taking Interstate or Federal and State two-lane instead of 3 days plodding...

Seems like we have a different idea of high end and exotic then. Trucks like Raptor, ZR2, TRD Pro would have a decade ago been borderline competition prepared trucks. If you're suggesting that those should be how an SR5 is equipped then I just don't agree. Not in a average buyer requirement...

SPOT Gen 3 Trackers are one-way. They beacon position and can send 3 canned messages and an SOS but you don't get a reply. There's also a SPOT X, which is a two-way device with a keyboard that can send and receive text messages like the InReach. I have the one-way device, no experience with...

The TRD Pro FOX suspension is pretty high end, isn't it?

If the new Ranger existed on the used market 5 years ago I'd probably have gone that way over a Tacoma. In 5 or 10 years I might still, I dunno. But lack of stick shifts ruled out a lot of options even in 2015 (when I bought my Tacoma) and in 2020 lack of one in most Tacomas is just another...

The stock suspension on my 1991 was soft and sagging, too. It rode rough because it was sitting on the overloads at 10 years old just like my Taco was. I think we tend to get a distorted memory of what really was. The frame walls were thicker and it was more rigid, though. That's the only...

But if small is what you need then no amount of GVWR shopping matters. I'm sure I could shoehorn a full size a fair number of places I take my truck but it's got plenty of pinstripes that indicate it doesn't have much elbow as it is. I'd prefer an even smaller truck personally, for the size...

But are road trips what you want to do? A built Jeep meets plenty of people's definition of "overlanding," which we use to just call going 'wheeling and camping.

Jeremy Clarkson will not be fully appreciated in his time. Leaning Tower of Citroen, indeed.

So what you're saying there exists an ideal 4WD camper and therefore no value in an individual's needs or vision.