Cost
The destination charge is a standard charge for transporting the vehicle from its point of origin to the dealer. The Tacoma is considerably cheaper to get to the dealership than the Dodge. Regarding fuel economy, the Tacoma bests the Dodge Ram Pickup 1500. The Dodge Ram Pickup 1500 consumes a lot of gasoline compared to the Tacoma. In terms of MSRP, the Toyota Tacoma costs quite a bit less than the Dodge Ram Pickup 1500. Regarding final price, the Toyota Tacoma costs quite a bit less than the Dodge Ram Pickup 1500. The Toyota Tacoma will save you a bundle at the pump every year compared to the Dodge Ram Pickup 1500.
Utility
Drivers with frequent kid-duty might favor the Dodge Ram Pickup 1500 over the Toyota Tacoma. There's no clear winner between the Toyota Tacoma and the Dodge Ram Pickup 1500 when it comes to hauling capacity. Towing is markedly more the Dodge's forte than it is the Toyota Tacoma's.
Convenience
You will definitely have to visit your friendly gas station more often with the Toyota Tacoma than with the Dodge Ram Pickup 1500. The Toyota Tacoma's fuel tank will need to be replenished more often than the unit in the Dodge Ram Pickup 1500.
Comfort
While the front cabin in the Dodge offers a bit more head room than the Toyota, there frankly isn't much of a difference. The ampler interior dimensions of the Dodge Ram Pickup 1500 make it quite a bit roomier for your passengers than the Tacoma.
Dimensions
The Dodge Ram Pickup 1500 is markedly heavier than the Toyota Tacoma. Your wallet will hurt more every time you fill up the Dodge Ram Pickup 1500 than the Toyota Tacoma because of its more capacious tank. The Toyota Tacoma rides lower than the Dodge Ram Pickup 1500, which is a good thing for its center of gravity and ease of access. The Toyota Tacoma fits in smaller parking spaces than the Ram Pickup 1500. The Toyota's shorter wheelbase will give a more agile feel in daily traffic. On the flip side, the Dodge Ram Pickup 1500 is likely to have a smoother, more stable ride.
Performance
Both the Toyota Tacoma and the Dodge Ram Pickup 1500 are likely to feel a little sluggish because of their high horsepower-to-weight ratio. In terms of horsepower, the Dodge Ram Pickup 1500 packs quite a punch and will knock the Toyota Tacoma down a few rungs. On the flip side, note that high horsepower engines often command higher insurance premiums.
Handling
With its tighter turning circle, the Toyota Tacoma is very likely more agile than the Dodge Ram Pickup 1500, something to consider if you do a lot of city driving; however, remember that a vehicle with a tight turning circle may feel a bit twitchy on the highway.
Drivetrain
The Dodge Ram Pickup 1500 has a bigger engine than the Toyota Tacoma. Note that smaller engines are often cheaper to fix, but a smaller engine usually has to work a little harder. Torque equals pickup, and the Dodge Ram Pickup 1500 will have picked up and gone by the time the Toyota Tacoma finally gets moving. Torque is roughly equivalent to acceleration, and in this respect, the Dodge Ram Pickup 1500 is tremendously more powerful than the Toyota Tacoma.
Overview
The Dodge and the Toyota Tacoma have the same basic warranty.
Other
The Toyota Tacoma emits fewer smog-forming pollutants per 15,000 miles than the Dodge.
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Showing posts with label Toyota Tacoma. Show all posts
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Toyota Tacoma
Cost
The destination charge is a standard charge for transporting the vehicle from its point of origin to the dealer. It costs approximately the same to get the Toyota Tacoma to the dealership as the average compact crew cab truck. There isn't much of a difference in gas mileage here, but if you must know, the average compact crew cab truck is somewhat more economical than the Toyota Tacoma. The typical compact crew cab truck won't save you much money at the pump compared to the Toyota Tacoma. When it comes to MSRP, the typical compact crew cab truck costs substantially less than the Tacoma.
Utility
Neither the Toyota Tacoma nor the average compact crew cab truck has a marked advantage as far as seating capacity. There's no clear winner between the Tacoma and the average compact crew cab truck with respect to transporting cargo. Towing is considerably more the typical compact crew cab truck's forte than it is the Toyota Tacoma's.
Convenience
The typical compact crew cab truck's fuel tank will need to be replenished somewhat more often than the unit in the Toyota Tacoma. You indubitably won't have to visit your friendly gas station more often with the Toyota Tacoma than with the average compact crew cab truck, because both offer comparable mileage ranges.
Comfort
While the front cabin in the Tacoma offers a bit more head room than the typical compact crew cab truck, there frankly isn't much of a difference. The typical compact crew cab truck offers more head- and leg-room to your passengers than the Toyota Tacoma does.
Dimensions
Both the Toyota Tacoma and the typical compact crew cab truck are likely to feel a tad slow because of their high horsepower-to-weight ratio. The average compact crew cab truck's tank is roughly the same size as the Toyota Tacoma's, though the Toyota Tacoma's is a bit bigger. The Toyota Tacoma rides lower than the average compact crew cab truck, which is a good thing for its center of gravity and ease of access. The typical compact crew cab truck and the Tacoma compete for the same parking spaces.
Performance
Both the Toyota Tacoma and the typical compact crew cab truck are likely to feel a tad sluggish because of their high horsepower-to-weight ratio.
Handling
The Toyota Tacoma and the average compact crew cab truck have approximately similar tires. With their similar turning circles, the Toyota Tacoma and the typical compact crew cab truck indubitably handle roughly the same into and out of tight spots.
Drivetrain
The Toyota Tacoma's engine is a tad smaller than the typical compact crew cab truck's, but not terribly so. Torque is roughly equivalent to acceleration, and in this respect, the average compact crew cab truck isn't much more powerful than the Toyota Tacoma.
Overview
Although the basic warranty that comes with the typical compact crew cab truck is slightly longer than the Tacoma's, the difference isn't too significant.
Other
The typical compact crew cab truck produces fewer smog-forming pollutants per 15,000 miles than the Toyota Tacoma.
from here
The destination charge is a standard charge for transporting the vehicle from its point of origin to the dealer. It costs approximately the same to get the Toyota Tacoma to the dealership as the average compact crew cab truck. There isn't much of a difference in gas mileage here, but if you must know, the average compact crew cab truck is somewhat more economical than the Toyota Tacoma. The typical compact crew cab truck won't save you much money at the pump compared to the Toyota Tacoma. When it comes to MSRP, the typical compact crew cab truck costs substantially less than the Tacoma.
Utility
Neither the Toyota Tacoma nor the average compact crew cab truck has a marked advantage as far as seating capacity. There's no clear winner between the Tacoma and the average compact crew cab truck with respect to transporting cargo. Towing is considerably more the typical compact crew cab truck's forte than it is the Toyota Tacoma's.
Convenience
The typical compact crew cab truck's fuel tank will need to be replenished somewhat more often than the unit in the Toyota Tacoma. You indubitably won't have to visit your friendly gas station more often with the Toyota Tacoma than with the average compact crew cab truck, because both offer comparable mileage ranges.
Comfort
While the front cabin in the Tacoma offers a bit more head room than the typical compact crew cab truck, there frankly isn't much of a difference. The typical compact crew cab truck offers more head- and leg-room to your passengers than the Toyota Tacoma does.
Dimensions
Both the Toyota Tacoma and the typical compact crew cab truck are likely to feel a tad slow because of their high horsepower-to-weight ratio. The average compact crew cab truck's tank is roughly the same size as the Toyota Tacoma's, though the Toyota Tacoma's is a bit bigger. The Toyota Tacoma rides lower than the average compact crew cab truck, which is a good thing for its center of gravity and ease of access. The typical compact crew cab truck and the Tacoma compete for the same parking spaces.
Performance
Both the Toyota Tacoma and the typical compact crew cab truck are likely to feel a tad sluggish because of their high horsepower-to-weight ratio.
Handling
The Toyota Tacoma and the average compact crew cab truck have approximately similar tires. With their similar turning circles, the Toyota Tacoma and the typical compact crew cab truck indubitably handle roughly the same into and out of tight spots.
Drivetrain
The Toyota Tacoma's engine is a tad smaller than the typical compact crew cab truck's, but not terribly so. Torque is roughly equivalent to acceleration, and in this respect, the average compact crew cab truck isn't much more powerful than the Toyota Tacoma.
Overview
Although the basic warranty that comes with the typical compact crew cab truck is slightly longer than the Tacoma's, the difference isn't too significant.
Other
The typical compact crew cab truck produces fewer smog-forming pollutants per 15,000 miles than the Toyota Tacoma.
from here
Dodge Dakota vs Toyota Tacoma
When your kids reach a certain age, they won't want to sit at the kids' table at parties. They won't want to order from the kids' menu. And before you know it, they definitely won't want to be called kids anymore.
By the same token, DaimlerChrysler's Dodge Dakota and Toyota Motor's Tacoma pickup--both of which were recently overhauled--are trying to shake off their former images as compact pickups. Both have grown so much in size that we can't call them compacts anymore.
Such is the nature of pickup development: In America--the only pickup market that really matters--we like our trucks to continue to get bigger over time, and more rugged.
Redesigned models of the Dakota and Tacoma went on sale last fall, and both are considerably bigger now. The Dakota is trying to look and feel larger-than-life. It has an optional V-8 engine--a power plant usually reserved for full-size pickups--and its aggressive looks mimic the styling of the full-size, cars-don't-get-any-more-aggressive-looking-than-this Dodge Ram pickup.
If Dodge prepared the new Dakota to look meaner, that makes sense: The Dakota is on its way to a dogfight. While pickups and truck-based automobiles such as sport utility vehicles make up one of the last arenas in which American automakers can and do compete, Japanese automakers have been slowly mounting an attack on the truck market.
The Tacoma and other Toyota trucks offer buyers pickups--the most popular vehicles in America due to their versatility--that come with the same bullet-proof reputation for reliability that consumers have come to know in passenger cars such as the Toyota Camry sedan. Add to this the fact that the entry-level Tacoma is one of the most affordable pickups available, and you can see why the Tacoma is handily outselling the Dakota in this country. In the first quarter of 2005, Toyota sold 34,000 Tacomas in the United States; Dodge sold 25,000 Dakotas.
While Dodge's Dakota tally in the first quarter of this year was an improvement over sales in the first quarter of 2004, Tacoma sales declined 8% compared with the first quarter of 2004. This is unusual. Typically, sales decline in a model's last year and increase after the arrival of the new model.
"There was a considerable ramp-up lag by the time we got all the different models in the pipeline. There are something like 18 different configurations [of the Tacoma]," said a Toyota spokesperson in a recent phone interview. In other words, Toyota is following its usual strategy with the new truck: build the volume slowly and conservatively.
While America's three best-selling vehicles are ordinarily Ford Motor's F-Series, General Motors' Chevrolet Silverado and the Ram--all American pickups--the beating the Dakota is taking at the hands of the Tacoma demonstrates that Wall Street analysts aren't being paranoid or delusional when they say the Japanese are assaulting the truck market. The Japanese are--and American automakers should be terrified. For a closer look at the situation, please follow the link below.
by Dan Lienert
By the same token, DaimlerChrysler's Dodge Dakota and Toyota Motor's Tacoma pickup--both of which were recently overhauled--are trying to shake off their former images as compact pickups. Both have grown so much in size that we can't call them compacts anymore.
Such is the nature of pickup development: In America--the only pickup market that really matters--we like our trucks to continue to get bigger over time, and more rugged.
Redesigned models of the Dakota and Tacoma went on sale last fall, and both are considerably bigger now. The Dakota is trying to look and feel larger-than-life. It has an optional V-8 engine--a power plant usually reserved for full-size pickups--and its aggressive looks mimic the styling of the full-size, cars-don't-get-any-more-aggressive-looking-than-this Dodge Ram pickup.
If Dodge prepared the new Dakota to look meaner, that makes sense: The Dakota is on its way to a dogfight. While pickups and truck-based automobiles such as sport utility vehicles make up one of the last arenas in which American automakers can and do compete, Japanese automakers have been slowly mounting an attack on the truck market.
The Tacoma and other Toyota trucks offer buyers pickups--the most popular vehicles in America due to their versatility--that come with the same bullet-proof reputation for reliability that consumers have come to know in passenger cars such as the Toyota Camry sedan. Add to this the fact that the entry-level Tacoma is one of the most affordable pickups available, and you can see why the Tacoma is handily outselling the Dakota in this country. In the first quarter of 2005, Toyota sold 34,000 Tacomas in the United States; Dodge sold 25,000 Dakotas.
While Dodge's Dakota tally in the first quarter of this year was an improvement over sales in the first quarter of 2004, Tacoma sales declined 8% compared with the first quarter of 2004. This is unusual. Typically, sales decline in a model's last year and increase after the arrival of the new model.
"There was a considerable ramp-up lag by the time we got all the different models in the pipeline. There are something like 18 different configurations [of the Tacoma]," said a Toyota spokesperson in a recent phone interview. In other words, Toyota is following its usual strategy with the new truck: build the volume slowly and conservatively.
While America's three best-selling vehicles are ordinarily Ford Motor's F-Series, General Motors' Chevrolet Silverado and the Ram--all American pickups--the beating the Dakota is taking at the hands of the Tacoma demonstrates that Wall Street analysts aren't being paranoid or delusional when they say the Japanese are assaulting the truck market. The Japanese are--and American automakers should be terrified. For a closer look at the situation, please follow the link below.
by Dan Lienert
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