Greetings from the province of Pontassieve in Florence, Italy, I have a Suzuki Jimmy 4x4 with a 1.3 LT petrol m13a engine from the year 2001, all original, which I use for off-roading on rural and forest trails and I see that my Suzuki Jimmy 4x4, even if it is original in the countryside, on these dirt roads of rural farms and on the forest roads that loggers often use to transport the wood out of the forest with their forestry tractors, skidders and forwarders, it performs very well on these trails, even if it is all original and is not prepared for extreme off-roading, but with the right mud tires it goes very well off-roading on forest roads, even in the presence of mud!
We never got thr jimmy over here but we had the samurai back in the day. That's a very capable little rig. Very cool to hear from Italy! Good luck on the trails
Have a 99 Tacoma, owned it for 20 years, great truck, but can’t argue a single thing that was just said, everything is accurate- frames rot, parts are expensive (have to use oem if you want to maintain reliability), way, way overpriced, in the northwest they routinely get in the high teens for trucks with 150k miles. It’s pretty stupid what people pay. That said, mines been pushed very hard, and regardless of mileage or abuse, it’s like a Timex, takes a licking and keeps on ticking. I’ll also argue, reliability wise and build quality wise, there’s no comparison between a Ford or Chevy and a Toyota. If you’ve got rear ends and transmissions failing, you’re asking too much of the truck. You don’t buy one to tow, or for fuel economy. You buy one because every time you turn the key it starts
Hard to compare to a cummins. There's never been a motor that you've been able to have your cake and eat it too as well as a cummins. Great mileage and power
I had a '99 V6 extended cab Tacoma 4x4. It was small, lightweight, fast and practical. Fit the wife and pup easily. Sold it with a ton of miles for $12K. Every truck made since (until the Ford Maverick) is too big, too heavy, too slow or too thirsty. Trying to get that new Tacoma SR5 Xtracab but supposedly they're only building 1 out of 20 new Tacomas this way. Got to test drive a new one last weekend, the new engine and transmission is excellent. Does 72+ MPH under 2K RPMs and doesn't struggle.
The Tacoma PreRunner V6 SR5 extra cab is the only one to get. It’s literally a 4Runner 4x2 with jump seats, sliding rear window and a bed. That thing is just a Toyota pickup. No power, no suspension, no nothing.
@@tylerhoneycutt4862 🙄Had. Back when it was brand new. From 1999 to 2001. Flipped it upside down up at Mt. Baldy. Got a 996 cabriolet to replace it. Course I was a young man then. Now I’m driving a GX470 with 325k miles on it. Love the thing!
The Tacoma is one of the best trucks ever for the bang of the buck NEW... I personally would never buy a used one, but back in the day, they were worth very penny.
I hear you about the rusted frames. I own a 2003 that I bought new. A 2.7 4WD. It's always been garaged. It's never seen snow or salt and the frame is great. I think it's about time to move on though.
It's a shame because I do like them in general. Jeeps and toyotas always seem to have frame issues and it's just a tough pill to swallow when buying them
@@junkyardjoe1994 mind you, these are clapped out, 200k-300k mile trucks, and these crack pipe smokers are asking taht much. Some with low milage like 60k on the odo want 20k. i think i may opt for a z71 but CA fuel prices may get crazy.
While your truck is rated for 3k pounds, it’ll do more. 5k easy with the manual. I wouldn’t push that without knowing brakes and lines are in good shape. Not something you should do consistently but much better than a 2.2 s10 will do and it will do it without shitting out the gearbox. 😊
What sucks is that Toyota wasn’t responsible for those rotten frames …. They paid another company take make the chasis … now they’re alot better though
Excellent trucks. I red line my 2.7 all manual single cab truck. 4x4 works great. It will do 0-60 in a considerably fast time for what it is. Frame rust and lower ball joints are an issue. The double cardan is a PITA on the driveshafts. A very stout truck. I haven’t blown it up yet, and every time I drive it it gets mashed to 5-6k rpm every time. It owes me nothing and it’s rusted out. Check the oil once in a while and watch the coolant temp it’ll go 250k miles without issues. The 2.4 I believe lacks balancing shafts and is regarded as the better motor to boost, and I believe they also have thicker cylinder walls on the 2RZ. However, these trucks are boring as fuck without a wiggle stick. The 3.4 is not my favorite Toyota engine but they hardly ever give issues other than heads and gaskets at 200k miles.
They are good trucks and I really hated to dog on them some. I know they'll bat way above their weight class and outlast lots of other brands but it's a tough pill to swallow with the price of them these days. I had lots of them in my younger years and I'm sure I'll end up with a few more in my lifetime
@@junkyardjoe1994 it is absolutely. I paid my share of Toyota tax but at least now I know what I can reasonably fix and have around for more than 2N years. Dependable machines for sure tho. Love mine, always.
Those are the real deal and my absolute favorite. Really after this generation in my video the quality really starts to fall. Mostly because they started being made in america unfortunately
