Great to see your channel blow up. From doing KZread in your garage, to owning your own shop, and now get to interview Toyota engineers. You deserve it. 👏

Im a longtime tacoma owner and im not liking the direction they went with these. Too many electronic failure points, and priced out most of their loyal customers. The tacoma used to be the stereotypical truck that the highschooler would run around with in the woods and daily drive for years and years problem free. Now its the rich ceo's truck. My 2nd gen is mint. I dont care about its mpg's. It has the 4.0 v6 and 5 speed a750f, perhaps the most reliable drivetrain on the face of the earth. I get to watch family and friends take their vehicles to the shop, while my truck just waits for more miles and use. If i ever get another tacoma, it will be gen 3.

Surprised no one is mentioning that one KZread video where a few guys broke the front axle when trying to get up over ice/snow and rock...

AMD, The Toyota engineer should be coming to your shop to ask you questions. 😉😉

Don’t feel bad about breaking the predator sideboard. They’re terrible.

Well AMD..I did call it, back when you still shooting in your home garage, I said back then this guy going to have 1 million subscribers one day. There you go. The Lord bless you always. And Toyota is lucky to have you to test drive their trucks.

Prices are out of my league. Great review though

Just not worth the price

Thank you for asking some tough questions, AMD! This review is now 2 months old and your other Tacoma review is 3 months old. Maybe you would be willing to do a favor for your subscribers and, especially, those of us considering buying a new Taco: ask a few more questions since you have a personal contact inside Toyota. Since these reviews, there seem to be several 'haters' or at least fanboys of older Tacos online claiming huge problems have started to occur with the 2024 Tacos. I don't mean the front drivetrain problem mentioned several times by your commenters, I mean the supposed overheating of the automatic transmission and loss of three of the manual transmission gears with no cause or solution in sight. I can almost accept the explanation given for the problem filmed by the TFL guys: they were using the truck in snow/ice conditions with the sand mode rather than the snow mode selected. Supposedly Toyota will change the software to prevent a recurrence. But the latest information I have found provides no credible documentation or resolution of these two different transmission 'problems'. It may not be a coincidence that when I tried to find a 2024 Tacoma with manual transmission, the official Toyota site shows none available and none in transit to dealers within 500 miles of central Texas.

You are honestly THE best repair/review channel I came across. I hope you will keep going for years to come

How do you make an engineer nervous? See @TheCarCareNut walk in. 😂

AMD so happy that we have you, not some clowns ( auto reviewers) that never changed their oil

Such a cool opportunity and noone is more deserving than TCCN, Mr. Toyota himself!

Pretty hilarious when asking about the airdam lol

What an opportunity for Toyota engineers to talk with the Car Nut! Great interview.

I’m so thrilled for your success!!!! Over a million views. Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy!! Congrats

I'll get some haters 😂, but this is only one knowledgeable KZreadr/ technician/SME that can ask this sort of high pitch questions to this Toyota engineer, rest of YT car review channels are just to do nice editing videos

Happy for you AMD. I’ve been following you for a while and Toyota should put you on the payroll. There is nobody who deserves this more than you. I’m a fanboy of these vehicles and you just reinforce my love for their simple design and reliability. Thanks for keeping us along for the ride.

This is the best review/information video I’ve seen on the new Tacoma. Well done.

This video was published only 21 hours ago and this video has almost 35k worth of views already. By far one of my favorite channels and i dont even own a Toyota vehicle!!