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I prefer the sloped sides and smaller profile of the AT setups. It should have more clearance and slightly better MPG to boot. FWC is bigger than it needs to be IMO, but I have an 8’ bed so anything seems cavernous.

I cannot wait for electric trucks. As soon as their ranges increase to 800-1000 miles I'll be getting one. Battery tech gets better every day. No fluids anywhere in the vehicle, no moving parts other than motors... literally a fraction of the systems to repair or maintain. Infinite torque...

You're right they all have issues. The difference is that Toyota admits it, and fixes things in a timely manner. Ford will let half the world go down in flames before issuing a recall.

No, the facts are quite evident. Toyota is superior :) I'll admit I have owned more Toyotas than Fords, with good reason. Every Ford purchase I have made was a miserable, regretful mistake in the end.

But the real story is that it’s completely regional anyway. I’ve owned 35+ Toyotas, most with over 200k, some with over 300k. All out of Western states. Hardly any rust to speak of on any of them. Certainly none with frame rot. I grew up in Ohio. Everything rusts in the rust belt. EVERYTHING!

AT Overland’s products are welded sheet aluminum. Very solid looking. The Project M is just the top half of a FWC, so typical RV siding on frame with visible screws and sealant gooping out. as stated above, the door is a crap design. Not that the Project M isn’t actually solid, it just...

The KO2s are a solid, all-around tire fi you are off road often, but the wear life is not good. I've seen 30k miles tops, typically. I've also never found KO2s to be great in mud. Never found BFG MT's to be great on snow/ice. Wear life is even worse than KO2s. Very noisy. You can't win...

Check out these bent domestic frames! Perhaps it was rust? Or perhaps it was the lower average IQ of anyone who chooses to buy a domestic vehicle which simply led to further poor decision making? The world may never know! Either way, a smart person would take a bent Toyota over a bent Ford!

I think I’d still take one over a Ford ;) I think the NHTSA prpbably has a lot of bias for granting leniency towards American manufacturers who don’t manufacture very well over foreign competition who does. Remember the whole gas pedal-floormat BS debacle? Totally overblown in my opinion. Even...

They did make 80’s toyotas with huge payload and big rear axles. They came with duallies. They were super slow but that was all the 80s trucks.

If you find yourself in an accident horrendous enough that the authorities are checking your total GVWR, you’re going to be dead and it doesn’t matter. If you load up a pop-up camper In a small personally registered truck and the rear end isn’t dragging on the ground, no one is ever going to...

Any documented cases of one cracking in half? Fords rot just as easily, they simply do not run as long as a toyota does. Something else will kill a Ford long before it hits the mileage it takes for a Toyota to rust apart. The original point regarding frame rot is moot.

Wow that is bad! I had a '99 or '01 Jeep years ago and I recall being surprised just how bad the mileage was, but I don't recall exactly how many MPGs.

No one said anything about being a ¾ ton equal. My very own truck, for example, handles, brakes, accelerates and feels much safer than my Super Duty ever did, both being loaded up 10% over their respective GVWR. This does not mean the truck will do all the things a Super Duty will do...

Toyota's GVWR is significantly underrated in my experience. Also, you need to beef up your rear springs in some way that it rides level or with a slight rake when fully loaded. This would unofficially raise your rear end carrying capacity. Just don't go much more than 10% over total GVWR and...

I don't find their prices to be that crazy high. If you are comparing to junk like Smittybilt, then yeah they seem expensive, but you are comparing apples to oranges. Smittybilt is pretty much selling 100% Chinese garbage. You get what you pay for, most of the time. ARB's suspensions are...

Another Tacoma. How unique!

Good thing you caught that belt. My Dad's 450k mile 1996 3.4 4Runner needs a new head... belt tensioner bolt backed out. Sad thing is he just had it changed by a clearly incompetent shop 30k miles ago. So sad to see a 450k mile 4Runner die because some dingus couldn't use a torque wrench...

ARB does not build a lot of things that say ARB on them...

I just checked my payload capacity on the Tundra and it is 1,820 lbs. A tad less than the 2,000 I quoted previously, but still not bad. I could see it easily being over 2,000. lbs from the factory on a 2WD 5.7 model. I'm running heavier tires, heavier suspension, way heavier bumper, big winch...