 The new Tacoma is a great looking truck with a very smooth ride and excellent off road capabilities, but it has one very serious flaw that makes all the good features pointless.  The engine and transmission in this truck are terrible.   The transmission never selects the correct gear, the engine has zero low end torque and the combination goes together like oil and water.  I absolutely hate driving this truck anywhere but on the trail off road.   Sure the ride is fantastic and the braking and handling are good but whats the point when you constantly have to smash the throttle to go up any kind of incline.  I'm not sure what the engineers were smoking when they developed the engine and transmission for this truck but it must have been really good.  Don't buy this truck with a V6 and automatic transmission.