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The 2024 Toyota Tacoma is upturning the mid-size pickup truck market, where Toyota has long reigned supreme already. With a complete redesign and a focus on integrating modern technology and rugged capabilities, the 2024 Tacoma sets new standards in its class. Here’s a detailed look at what’s new in this iconic truck available at your Toyota dealership.
Redesigned Platform and Structure
The 2024 Tacoma is built on the robust TNGA-F global truck platform, a foundation it shares with the Tundra, Sequoia, and Land Cruiser. This new platform is designed to enhance the truck’s strength and durability. Featuring a high-strength steel-ladder frame, the Tacoma’s construction is both sturdy and reliable, and the design underpins its exceptional off-road and on-road performance capabilities.
Advanced Powertrain Options
This year, your truck options include a turbocharged i-FORCE 2.4-liter engine, delivering control in various driving conditions and 278 horsepower and 317 lb.-ft. of torque. Want more? In an impressive leap forward, the i-FORCE MAX hybrid powertrain option sets a new standard for power in the mid-size truck segment, offering unmatched torque at 465 lb-ft.
Enhanced Suspension and Handling
A significant upgrade in the 2024 model is the introduction of a new coil spring multi-link rear suspension system, which is available in most grades. This new system significantly improves the Tacoma’s handling, both on and off the road, and each Tacoma model has a suspension tuned to its grade.
Rugged and Functional Design
The design out of Toyota’s CALTY Design Research Center draws inspiration from Toyota’s Baja race trucks, emphasizing a slim body, high lift, and big tires, for amazing off-road capabilities.
Meanwhile, the truck bed has been re-engineered for increased utility and versatility. It’s constructed using a lightweight yet sturdy Sheet-Molded Compound (SMC) and features a power-operated tailgate for enhanced convenience.
Safety and Convenience Features
All models of the Tacoma come equipped with disc brakes, ensuring reliable and responsive braking performance in various driving conditions. TRD models and higher grades are equipped with larger front brake packages for additional stopping power.
The truck includes a panoramic view monitor and blind spot monitoring that extends to the trailer, and the available wireless trailer camera and manual headlight leveling switch add to the convenience and safety in towing and hauling scenarios.
Advanced Towing Technology
The Tacoma is designed to excel in towing and features a trailer brake controller, Tow/Haul drive mode, and innovative assistance technologies like Trailer Back Up Guidance and Straight Path Assist.
The 2024 Tacoma is everything we’ve always loved in this best-selling truck, and now more. Everything we depend on is still there, and upgrades across the board make it a new force to be reckoned with in the segment. Ready to see for yourself? Come test-drive one at Rick McGill’s Airport Toyota today.
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