Here’s Why I’m No Longer Buying Toyota Trucks (and You Shouldn’t Either)

rev up your engines all right today I'm talking about a Toyota pickup truck that I believe may be the last great Toyota pickup truck to buy now why am I saying that because of what's under the hood this is their Dynamic Force engine V6 and this is a 2023 Toyota Tacoma four-wheel drive top of line TRD this is the last time they put a six-cylinder engine in them as of 2024 Toyota says they're only going to have four cylinder turbos and four cylinder hybrid and the trds they're ditching the six-cylinder engine which to me is a gigantic mistake if you ask any truck guy they'll tell you Toyota screwed up when they took the V8 out of the tundra and put the V6 twin turbo people wanted a big giant truck they got a tundra they can tow a ton they can last basically forever and yeah they get horrible gas modage but guess what Guy brought me one of the twin turbo v6s in a tundra and it was even a hybrid he only got 19 miles a gallon in the highway so much your great gas modage Not only was it the twin turbo but it was a hybrid it still got crap gas mods so that's just a stupid idea and in terms of these people like these trds for their performance what they can tow Toyota you're making a big mistake only going to four cylinder turbo or four cylinder hybrid and here's why you can take all the figures about horsepower and torque and throw them out the window because they are all relative this puts out a lot of horsepower a lot of torque people get these to go Offroad they get them to tow boats pull heavy trailers throw a bunch of crap in the back the V6 a lot of torque and takeoff power for pulling and towing taking a boat in especially out of the lake right now the four cylinder turbos they can put out a lot of horse power too but it's a different kind of horsepower and torque it comes at a much higher RPM now when you're pulling the boat in or out of Towing stuff you really want to be revving your engine way up to get it going and in most cases Americans Drive 96% automatic transmissions you can't really rev it up like with a standard transmission right so they are not going to tow as good they're not going to be as good off-road vehicles they will not be able to carry as much weight in the bed without having too much acceleration leg you don't spend this kind of money on a pickup truck to get yourself a dog now of course for ages the comas have had four cylinder engines they started out with four-cylinder engines but they don't have the power that a lot of people want for example my son's got a 2-year-old TRD with a V6 he also has an older one that's a regular to Coma with a four cylinder the four cylinder one is pretty much a dog acceleration it's a great work truck for kicking equipment saws you name it around it's not made for pulling a lot of weight some people want that yeah and that's totally fine my son's got a four and a six he's got two of them but if you're going to buy a TRD you want a bigger engine in it just like to go even further as I said before you want a tundra the guys really wanted V8s they didn't want a V6 engine but you know I think Toyota's making a big mistake doing this downsizing and putting a four-cylinder Turbo hence this may be the last great truck that Toyota's built as far as I'm concerned for people who are serious about trucks I'm not talking about people that just P around take the kids to soccer games I'm talking about people who want a serious truck and this TRD hey it's got a serious price so I would expect to get a serious truck for example this one was purchased for $45,000 you expect to get power and things that you want for that kind of money right you're going to buy something like a Ford Maverick pickup truck yeah they cost a ton less right they don't have the power and they certainly don't have the long life that Toyotas historically have and going back to the turbo 4 instead of the six-cylinder engine guess what the turbo 4 is going to wear out faster you put a smaller engine in the same size truck it's not going to last as long so not only do you not have the actual power when you're taking off it won't last as long so really Toyota why oh why are you getting rid of this engine that a lot of people like okay maybe you want your gas Modge ratings to go better for the EPA well sell smaller for cylinder versions but when you got your Top ofthe Line Tacoma TRD don't water it down in order to appease government bureaucrats now the guy just bought this he loves a truck it's his work truck you're going to see he's got all his crap in it it's a serious work TR but he's kind of mad and I don't blame him they talk to men to paying $1,000 for a tire warranty setup and he's got a bad tire not only does he hate the idea he's got to go to this warranty claim they're not going to replace all four tires now this is a four-wheel drive vehicle excellent technology it's all electronically controlled you have vehicles like this you're supposed to have all four tires the same exact size all the four-wheel drive system is electronically controlled you have you get a bad tire you got to buy all four tires they have to be the same exact circumference cuz if one's worn more than another the drive system is going to have to compensate it'll mess around with the transfer cases because it keeps compensating cuz the tires aren't the same size when a tire goes B on one of these you're supposed to buy all four but the warranty that he paid 1,000 bucks for won't replace all four tires he said wait a second I got a warranty so you fill us out we're going to replace the bad tire but they're not going to replace all four tires which should have to he paid for the warranty now this just is limited in Toyota when of viers at the same problem with a Subaru and they're all all-wheel drive except for their one little race car right so he had a tire blow under warranty they gave him a tire and he said wait a second this Tire's got 20,000 miles on it all the other ones do you told me if I buy tires I got to buy all four now you're telling me you're not going to replace all four under the warranty oh no only the one is bad so we're only repl that this is the kind of idiots that work at the dealerships that are crooked dishonest if you were paying out of your pocket they would say we got to replace all four tires but when it's coming off of their in quotes warranty that you pay extra money for and they don't replace them do what this guy's doing he's going to cancel the warranty stop paying on it it's in his monthly payment you know it doesn't look like much because you add it to your monthly payment but it's still $1,000 and they're not even being honest about it and placeing all four like they should so think twice before you buy one of these warranties if you've got a four-wheel drive vehicle 1,000 bucks is 1,000 bucks and when they don't do what they're supposed to do hey don't buy such things to the truck you can see it's dirty it is his work truck he is not fooling around there's his work clothes there's his work tools he's got tarps and everything on the back this guy is screwing around he's using this thing as a work truck now it's any truck you're going to get much worse gas mileage in city than on a highway you got like 30 on a highway for a truck this size four-wheel drive that's great gas mod it says you get 16 18 in town which is typical what you're going to get but on a highway hey 30 is a really good gas modage because Toyota Dynamic Force V6 it's got dual fuel injection it's got fuel injectors on the intake on all six but it's also got gasoline direct injectors and fancy computer system switch back and forth that's how it can have all this power but still get 30 m a gallon on the highway and I find this hilarious because if you remember the video I did last year the guy with the 2023 Tundra with the V6 twin turbo he only got 19 M gallon on Highway and this guy's getting 30 the V6 engine definite success in the Tacoma but in the big giant Tundra definitely a failure as far as I'm concerned sure to stock to the V8 as a matter of fact this guy says this will probably be the last Toyota he ever buys then he's going to go back to a V8 and he's probably going to get a Ford because as he said Ford is probably the only company that's still serious about building big V8 trucks which a lot of people want as a matter of fact he was going to buy a thundra but they stopped putting the V8 engines in it so he's happy with it so far but he is a V8 man they want the real takeoff and torque and pulling power they just have more there's a reason they made V8 engines in the first place and a lighter vehicle like this V6 is fine but you want a heavy full-size truck really v8's the only way to go going inside is Tacoma you can see it still has some logical stuff to it look a real parking brake not some electronic pile of crap this is what guys that work want they want something like this now unfortunately it also has a start but Buton you can't do anything about that they make them all that way but when we talk about the four-wheel drive it's all very simple you can go two wheel drive four-wheel low four-wheel high just by turning a switch look at the screen it's in the dash that's what I find hilarious because I like them in the dash it looks good right it fits in with a truck Toyota I don't know what you got thinking but all your other vehicles they got that monitor sticking up here it looks like somebody glued into the car this is a nice one it's right here where you can actually see the thing and it's not blocking your view this obviously was not an afterthought like their other ones are who knows what they got going on with their Engineers this does have intelligent cruise control but the owner of this hates cruise control so it meant nothing to him but you got 400 watts ac1 120 dual climate control I mean this is a loaded truck and there's quite a bit of room in the back seat when he takes all his crap out of it the man's like me doesn't want anybody riding with him I go motorcycle you know with one seat on it well he just fills the seats up so nobody else can ride with him so he's got his own private vehicle but now he has to clean it because he's going to ride with me and break his own rule so we'll start it up back it up you can see it's got a decent camera so you can see what's happening and it's not as heavy as a tundra but it's got enough weight that it you take these Rhode Island horrendous Road bumps and stride we'll see what happens here we go pretty smooth ride for a truck that's raised this High you know we'll see how it takes off there's nobody coming out way no that way here we go and he's he's hanging on I heard a couple squeals there before the traction control kicked in but you can see it's got a lot of pulling power and if you replace this nice six cylinder and a four banger it would take a lot longer for it to spool up and get that pickup and you wouldn't be getting great four-cylinder gas mods then before this he had a four-cylinder and he just told me he didn't have any power at all he got his way he got this V6 he's definitely someone who would not buy this vehicle if it had the four-cylinder engine in it and there's a lot of people believe me that feel that way now there's a lot of people that'll buy a regular Tacoma with a four-cylinder they don't want Power they want a reliable truck that'll run forever but this is a TR D It's supposed to have all the bells and whistles and it's certainly not a turd they're going to have a hard time selling them if you ask me if all they're going to have is a turbo and a hybrid version they're going to chase a lot of their clientele away probably the last great truck that Toyota's building the way things seem to be going not a fan of the turbo the hybrid and that's all they're going to have in 2024 they're retiring the six it was bad enough that they retired the V8 and the tundra now they're retiring the V6 and this now to me that makes no sense they don't understand Americans and what Americans want in an upper Line Truck they understand the lower line trucks there's no arguing that but the upper line trucks hey they should have left this thing well enough alone so if you're thinking about getting one you better hurry up cuz there's not too many 20 23s left and when there's just 20 24s and up you won't be able to get the setup anymore so if you never want to miss another one of my new car videos remember to ring that [Music] Bell

Channel: Scotty Kilmer

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Length: 13min 15sec (795 seconds)

Published: Tue Nov 07 2023