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2025 Tacoma TRD Pro - Well built but too big?

  If you are familiar with Dr. Who, you know that the T.A.R.D.I.S. (Time And Relative Dimension In Space) is much bigger on the inside than it is outside. The 2025 Tacoma TRD Pro 4X4 Double Cab Hybrid is the opposite. Despite its size there is still only seating for four (by my count, five in modern auto-speak), and the bed is still only 5' long. The truck itself, a mid-size pickup, is 213" (17.75') long, almost 80" wide, and up to 75.8" tall. Trust me folks, this isn't the Tacoma of old.  If any truck ever cried out for a running board - steps - it was this Tacoma. The floor is about 24" high. On the driver's side the grab handle is the steering wheel, on the passenger side, and in the back seat area, the grab handles are up high, almost two high for my wife to reach.  The truck looks like it could take on the toughest off-roading you could throw at it. And maybe it could. As long as there weren't any tight turns. Where I live, when I pull out o...

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