If you want a new midsize truck, you have four-and-a-half options. The geriatric but delightfully trucky Nissan Frontier, the recently reintroduced unibody Ridgeline, the insipid GM Colorado/Canyon twins, or the relatively fresh Toyota Tacoma. Each of these trucks has something to recommend it, but the midsize segment is not the dynamic space it once was.
So you say you want to understand Toyota. You want to look the company in the eye and get a sense of its soul. Without spending hours studying kaizen and poring over 2000GT imagery and learning the significance of the number 86, you want to know why Toyota is different from, say, Porsche. Allow the
I’ll declare my love for the Toyota 86 straight up. It’s been one of my favourite cars since its release about four years ago. So, to say I was excited to see what Toyota has done to it in its first major upgrade would be an understatement. To do anything to the 86 was fraught