Toyota Teases Next-Gen 2024 Tacoma, and Not a Decade Too Soon
Despite a significant redesign for the 2016 model year, the last time Toyota had a clean-sheet design for its mid-size Tacoma pickup truck was 2005. Leaving well enough alone has worked for Toyota over nearly two decades — it’s been a top-selling mid-size truck — but as our own Brian Normile asked at the outset of his review for the 2021 Taco, “How much longer can Toyota go without modernizing the Tacoma?” Well, we’ll soon find out thanks to a new teaser for the nameplate’s next generation.
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Given it’s a single image of which almost half is dirt and rocks, details are unsurprisingly thin for now. Two things can be gleaned immediately, however: First, off-road enthusiasts can sleep easy knowing the truck’s TRD Pro trim, added for the 2017 model year as a step up from the lesser TRD Off-Road, will be returning to the lineup.
More intriguing, however, is that smaller badge on the bottom right of the tailgate. Toyota’s i-Force Max hybrid powertrain made its debut as a 437-horsepower, 3.5-liter V-6 good for 583 pounds-feet of torque on the 2022 Tundra full-size pickup. What remains to be seen is what i-Force Max means for the Tacoma; will it be similar in output and configuration to the Tundra or more similar to the Hybrid Max “performance hybrid” powertrain that recently debuted on the Crown sedan? Whether it be available as an option — or even standard — on the Tacoma’s other trims (currently the SR, SR5, TRD Sport, TRD Off-Road, Trail Special Edition and Limited) also remains unknown.
And that’s just one starting point for speculation. What, exactly, Toyota means by “incredible new design and features” for the Tacoma’s next generation is guesswork at the moment — but once further details inevitably come to light, we’ll be there to cover it. Stay tuned.
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