![]() ![]() The Tacoma is a good mid-size pickup that is available in a variety of guises to suit virtually any pickup buyer’s needs, and all benefit from Toyota’s reputation for quality and offer good value. Tacoma competitors include the Chevrolet Colorado, Ford Ranger, Nissan Frontier, GMC Canyon, and Honda Ridgeline. The Tacoma offers good steering and a pleasant ride. Furthermore, the brakes feel unresponsive and slow to react. Large bumps send shivers through the Tacoma in a most unsatisfying and trucklike way. Structural rigidity in the Tacoma isn’t as good as it is in its platform-mates 4Runner and FJ Cruiser. V-6 models are quick to accelerate four-cylinder models offer fuel efficiency at the expense of speed. ![]() Toyota claims that the V-6–only X-Runner sprints from 0 to 60 mph in fewer than seven seconds and can pull a sports-car-like 0.90 g on a skidpad. Tacomas come in a variety of flavors, from basic work truck to the off-roader look of 2WD-only PreRunner versions to the sporty X-Runner. Both engines offer optional four-wheel drive rear-wheel drive is standard. Six-cylinder models can be had with a six-speed manual or a five-speed automatic, except PreRunner Double Cabs, which only get the five-speed auto. Four-cylinder models come standard with a five-speed manual and offer a four-speed automatic at extra cost. Properly equipped, V-6 models have a 6500-pound towing capacity. An available upgrade on the Access Cab and standard on the Double Cab is a 4.0-liter V-6 with 236 horsepower and 266 pound-feet of torque. A 2.7-liter four-cylinder engine with 159 horsepower and 180 pound-feet of torque is the base engine and powers the regular cab and the Access Cab. Regular-cab and Access Cab models come with a 6.25-foot bed the longer Double Cab offers a 5.0-foot bed and the longer 6.25-foot bed. Double Cab models get a full back seat with full-size rear doors and only come with the V-6 engine. The next step up is the Access Cab setup with small rear doors, room for cargo behind the front seat, and two small jump seats. Regular-cab models are the most basic, offering only a small amount of space behind the front seat and a four-cylinder engine. Toyota offers three cab sizes in the Tacoma. Far larger than the compact pickups of the recent past, the Tacoma could now be considered a mid-size pickup, and it slots into the Toyota pickup-truck lineup below the full-size Tundra. Built on a traditional body-on-frame platform, the Tacoma shares its underpinnings with the Toyota 4Runner and FJ Cruiser SUVs. To each their own though.The current-generation Toyota Tacoma enters its second year of production with few changes. My 2011 Tacoma and 2015 tundra both sounded leagues better to me and didn’t add $610 to the price like the B&O did. As far as the overall sound, it just wasn’t worth the price to me personally. But as far as bass goes there is basically none. Like I mentioned in the Reddit thread, I’m not even planning to add a sub and the last thing I’m trying to do is make it just a rumble machine. You want to blast lil'whovever, just get aftermarket subs and ruin the balance.It’s not that I’m trying to blast bass, I just personally feel the system is underwhelming for what it cost. I am just tired of people bashing on this system as it really is not bad. Sadly, most streaming services are lossy, so you get what you pay for. The speaker placement is amazing and provided you don't use a crappy 128kbs source, it sounds good. Good sound systems are balanced, not overwhelmed by bass. Blasting bass for a certain genre of music does not mean a good sound system. I find the 8 speaker B&O system pretty good. Link for anyone wanting to read the Reddit thread in question But I can’t see any way that replacing the speakers from ****ty stock speakers to JBLs could possibly be a “downgrade” and an “injustice” as they actually described it. It all sounds like uppity, condescending, audiophile bull**** to me, but I wanted to check with you guys here. Essentially multiple users were telling me that I had to buy a $700 amp replacement just to get started and that the $120 speakers I was looking at were not worth even considering because they would somehow sound worse than factory? So I looked through a lot of threads that I found mostly through here and thought that I had most everything figured out for what I was going to buy, so I posted a thread over on Reddit at /r/CarAV and was basically accosted as if my idea to upgrade just the speakers themselves with JBL GTO’s was sacrilege. My base model bone-stock 2015 Tundra had a much better sounding system. ![]() It’s apparently just an upgrade amp with a **** sub and factory paper-cone speakers for anyone unaware. Hi guys! I just got my new 2022 F-150 Powerboost and I love it to death…but the B&O system is severely disappointing. ![]()
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