Trusty Toyota Tacoma rolls over 400,000 miles

Quite a moment, crossing the 400K barrier!!

My first ever pick up truck purchase, a 1998 Toyota Tacoma, is still rolling on down the highway having recently crossed the 400,000 mile mark. Let me tell you that this was a memorable occasion, having never owned a vehicle that likes to be driven like this Toyota truck does. This is a one-owner vehicle, since I bought it new from West Ashley Toyota. I have had to replace some of the parts that wear out on autos, but overall I have employed just a regular oil change type of maintenance regime. My 5-speed 4 cylinder Tacoma has few frills, and that was always the plan since it  has regular duties on a small farm. But whether on the road back and forth to the woods, or going down dirt roads, this truck has done well and it has been fairly easy to give a vouch of loyalty in return. Upon reaching out to Toyota to tell them of this mileage milestone, they were understandably less than impressed, having seen many of their vehicles have long service lives. However, they did ask me to test drive at 2013 Tacoma X-Runner recently, and the fire engine red 6-speed with 6-cylinders had an effects package on it that made it appear more ready for urban survival than a truck suited to the Lowcountry Outdoors! Fuel economy decreases with the 6-cylinder versus the 4-cylinder, but the X-Runner has a new type of truck bed that requires no bed-liner, and it also comes with a nice rubber mat to keep cargo from sliding about. Now.... back to my trusted Tacoma to rack up a few more miles along my outdoors journey!

1998 Tacoma on farm duty in 2013

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2013 Toyota X-Runner arriving at Barnsley Plantation