We likely agree for the most part since I would like to see a fully boxed frame and diesel truck, be it a Hilux or Tacoma. But this topic floats to the top all the time, not much new to be hashed out of it. What Dalko, Clutch, I or any of the other number of people think is or isn't doesn't matter. Toyota isn't going to give us small trucks meant for work anymore so we either cross our fingers that Ford may or we have to build what we want, which is the same as it ever was. I stopped hoping and went through welding school personally.
And can't imagine a scenario where Ford might try to figure out the natural frequency of a competitor's chassis and design a proving ground track that happened to exploit it. Not that I'm defending Mike Sweers apparent philosophy of trying to tune a chassis for so-called compliance, which causes this. I've chased a rear end bounce in my Tacoma thinking it was springs or shocks when I probably just found a resonance of the frame. But I'm also not sure this hasn't been true of even the Hilux, my old 1991 had a similar rear end bounce on some roads. It seems our state highway department has a crack joint interval that just makes white, 4x4 XtraCab and Access Cab Toyotas oscillate at the speed I drive.
