Model/Year:

2008 Toyota Tacoma Access Cab

General experience:

I lived in Europe and used to have Japanese vehicles back then. When I moved to the USA I thought that the standards and the quality level of the Japanese cars will be about the same in the USA as I used to see in Europe. In fact I am being disappointed by me brand new Toyota Tacoma. The features that come in the basic package of Tacoma are too common and it made me feel that I found myself about 15 years ago. I am currently missing many comfortable features in my Toyota Tacoma. For instance I can’t get fresh air to the level of the face and the heat to the feet, when it is getting cold. The level of the comfort in my new Toyota Tacoma isn’t even closed to the level of the comfort that I used to have in my Toyota cars and trucks in Europe. When I go to the distant journeys I have a higher level of fatigue and therefore I feel less confident and safe about my ride. Some of the features cannot be turned off if you turn them on one day which is a surprising mistake of the manufacturer. I’ll explain: once I turned on the 4WD low range and the car turned it off only in a few hours, although I have been trying to turn it off for 4 hours already by that moment. Well, there were also other similar problems and only an official dealer was able to reset some of the settings, but in fact surpassingly I should have been able to turn these features on and off by myself every time I need to.

Pros and cons:

+ The ride is okay, but the view of the drivers’ seat in Toyota Tacoma isn’t that perfect.

- Toyota in America is the way worse than Toyota in Europe. The real Japanese quality does not exist in these American Toyota cars. I advice you not to by Toyota in the USA.