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Toyota Tacoma

What Car Shoppers Need to Know

• The Toyota Tacoma is a mid-size pickup that shares its body-on-frame platform with the Toyota 4Runner SUV.
• A wide range of trims is available, three of which are dedicated off-roaders.
• The Tacoma is the only mid-size pickup that offers a hybrid powertrain.

For years, Toyota hasn’t even needed to keep the Tacoma up to date to make it the bestselling mid-size pickup on the market, but a ground-up redesign for 2024 brought a host of new features. The new-generation Tacoma has modern infotainment, an available coil-spring suspension for better ride quality, and an available hybrid powertrain for both additional power and marginally better fuel efficiency. As before, a varied lineup includes two cab sizes, two bed lengths, rear- or four-wheel drive and a manual or automatic transmission. With all those choices, there’s plenty of reasons for the Tacoma to stay a bestseller.

What’s New for 2026?

The Tacoma changes little for 2026, seeing just some new exterior colors and a standard tow hitch for the base SR XtraCab trim.

Pricing

The Tacoma comes in eight trim levels, so there’s a version for most every type of buyer. The prices below include a mandatory $1,745 destination fee and are correct as of August 2026 (manufacturers sometimes change a vehicle’s pricing over the course of a model year).

• SR: $34,290
• SR5: $38,380
• TRD PreRunner: $40,880
• TRD Sport: $42,160
• TRD Off-Road: $44,560
• Limited: $55,315
• Trailhunter: $65,495
• TRD Pro: $66,495

Trims and Features

The Toyota Safety Sense 3.0 suite comes standard on all Tacomas. This collection of driver-assist features includes forward collision warning with pedestrian detection, automatic emergency braking, lane-centering steering, adaptive cruise control, road-sign recognition and automatic high-beam headlights.

SR

The SR is pretty basic. It rides on a leaf-spring rear suspension and comes with cloth upholstery, manually adjustable front seats, a four-speaker audio system and 17-inch steel wheels. It does have a few premium features, though, including an 8-inch touchscreen, wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, keyless access and start, and LED headlights.

SR5

The SR5 upgrades to LED foglights, adjustable bed tie-downs, a body-colored rear bumper and 17-inch aluminum wheels. It also adds blind spot warning and rear cross-traffic alert.

TRD PreRunner

The TRD PreRunner comes only with RWD in a two-door XtraCab with the 6-foot bed. It also gets LED bed lighting, a 12.3-inch digital instrument cluster, automatic climate control and all-terrain tires.

TRD Sport

From the TRD Sport on up, the Tacoma comes with a multilink coil-spring rear suspension that improves ride quality. The TRD Sport also gets a six-speaker audio system and 18-inch wheels wrapped in all-season tires.

TRD Off-Road

The TRD Off-Road kicks off the off-road-oriented models with standard 4WD, composite skid plates, Bilstein shock absorbers and 17-inch wheels wrapped in all-terrain tires.

Limited

The Limited also gets 4WD but aims for luxury. It has synthetic leather upholstery, heated and ventilated power-adjustable front seats, dual-zone automatic climate control, a rear camera mirror, a head-up display, a 10-speaker JBL sound system, wireless phone charging, a 14-inch touchscreen infotainment system, a moonroof, a power-sliding rear window and sequential LED turn signals. A 360-degree camera system and front and rear parking sensors with automatic braking are standard on the Limited trim and above.

Trailhunter

The Trailhunter has 33-inch off-road tires mounted on unique 18-inch wheels, with a unique front bumper for better approach angles, electronically disconnecting anti-roll bars to increase suspension articulation and 2.5-inch Old Man Emu remote-reservoir shock absorbers that aim to balance off-road wheel control with heavy cargo loads. It also sports Rigid Industries LED foglights, a 20-inch LED light bar in the grille, steel ARB rear bumpers with red recovery hooks and prewired auxiliary switches for aftermarket accessories.

The Trailhunter’s most notable feature is its high-mounted intake “snorkel,” which is intended to limit dust and debris from clogging the engine’s air filter during off-road driving. It also comes with steel skid plates and a sport bar with removable, modular load-carrying equipment panels that mount various tools and equipment.

TRD Pro

The TRD Pro has all the Trailhunter’s offroad gear but swaps that model’s Old Man Emu shocks for 2.5-inch Fox internal-bypass dampers that can be adjusted for different types of terrain. It also swaps a TRD performance cold air intake for the Trailhunter’s high-mounted intake, with aluminum skid plates and Toyota’s IsoDynamic front seats with in-seat suspension to improve comfort on rough terrain.

Powertrains and Fuel Economy

The Tacoma offers two engines with four states of tune, automatic and manual transmissions, and RWD or 4WD. The base engine is Toyota’s i-Force turbocharged 2.4-liter four-cylinder that makes 228 horsepower and 243 pounds-feet of torque in the base SR model. In the rest of the lineup, this engine makes 278 hp and 317 pounds-feet of torque when paired with the eight-speed automatic transmission. If you opt for the six-speed manual, those figures fall to 270 hp and 310 pounds-feet.

Base trims have standard RWD, with 4WD optional on the SR, SR5 and TRD Sport. The PreRunner is RWD only, and the TRD Off-Road, Limited, Trailhunter and TRD Pro come exclusively with 4WD. Towing capacity with the gas-only turbo-four tops out at 6,500 pounds.

The i-Force Max hybrid powertrain pairs the base engine with an electric motor that increases output to 326 hp and 465 pounds-feet of torque. It comes standard in the Trailhunter and TRD Pro, and it’s optional in the 4WD TRD Sport, TRD Off-Road and Limited trims. With the i-Force Max powertrain, the Tacoma can tow up to 6,000 pounds.

The Tacoma’s sheer number of cab, bed and trim configurations means fuel economy varies greatly. With the gas-only engine, it tops out at 21/26/23 mpg city/highway/combined with RWD and 19/24/21 mpg with 4WD. The hybrid powertrain’s best rating is 23/24/23 mpg. The manual transmission comes solely with the gas-only engine and 4WD; it earns an EPA rated 18/23/20 mpg.

Interior

Toyota offers the Tacoma with an extended cab that the company calls XtraCab; it has two doors and two seats with cargo space behind them. Toyota calls its crew cab the Double Cab, and it has four doors and five seats. Every XtraCab has a 6-foot cargo bed, while the Double Cab comes standard with a 5-foot bed but makes the 6-foot bed optional on the SR5, TRD Sport, TRD Off-Road and Trailhunter.

The base interior setup includes cloth upholstery and manually adjustable front seats. The PreRunner adds automatic climate control. The Limited upgrades to synthetic leather upholstery, heated and ventilated power-adjustable front seats, dual-zone automatic climate control and a power-sliding rear window. Every Tacoma has adjustable tie-downs and LED bed lighting.

Versus the Competition

The Tacoma’s primary rivals are the Chevrolet Colorado, Ford Ranger, GMC Canyon and Nissan Frontier; the unibody-platform Honda Ridgeline and Jeep’s Wrangler-based Gladiator are also competitors. The Tacoma offers a much more varied lineup than the rest of its class, with three dedicated off-road trims, a work truck and a luxury truck. Its available coil-spring rear suspension is a rarity in the segment, especially among body-on-frame entries, and not all rivals offer multiple cab and bed sizes, either. It’s also the only mid-size truck with an available hybrid powertrain, giving it a slight advantage in fuel economy. Some rivals, however, are more powerful, offer more comfortable and better-appointed interiors, or can be had with easier-to-use infotainment systems with more functionality. In addition, the Tacoma’s 6,500-pound maximum towing capacity trails most of its rivals by 1,000 pounds or more.

Do We Like the Toyota Tacoma?

After a prolonged previous generation that made the Tacoma old in its class, a 2024 redesign made the Tacoma one of the newer mid-size pickups on the market. When equipped with its available coil-spring rear suspension, the Tacoma has better ride quality than most of the competition. We like the hybrid powertrain for its additional power, but it doesn’t improve fuel economy much. The infotainment system is up to date, but we still think it’s mid-pack in the class for usability. Base models are relatively affordable, but prices increase dramatically for the hybrid and line-topping off-road trims. While the Tacoma has long been the bestselling mid-size pickup in the U.S., it’s not markedly better than its rivals.