TRAILHUNTER won't sell?

[tgrneal]

I am seeing a pattern here:

Trailhunter owners that are explaining why they like their truck.

And SR5 or OR people that are complaining how crappy the club is from outside, behind the red rope.

lol, jk

I love my Trailhunter, could I have avoided the extra cost by building up a different trim, probably, kinda. Still replacing a lot of the stuff on the Trailhunter with aftermarket, but I’ll take the upper echelon badge.

This was my first truck, I came from wide body BMW M world where every 2 years I was used to 138k+ sticker prices. So the 67k felt like a relief.

Yep! This is my first Taco. I've came from an SR5 4Runner it was cool to mod myself but the integration between some things like aftermarket heated seats weren't as seamless as OEM. I love my TrailHunter and I love that the more luxury features that people pay to mod are already installed.

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[lauren01]

I recently bought my 2025 in late January. It hit dealer sometime around September 2025. shortbed with minimal addons (tailgate badge, ppf, and door edge protectors.) Total addons was like 500 bucks. It was priced 6.7k below sticker bringing it to somewhere at around 59K. I don't think i was going to get it lower than that.

The trailhunter trim is also exempt from Toyota special incentives on financing and leasing, not sure why you would want to lease one, but regardless, a TRD Off Road premium had 2.99% vs the 5% i had to get from my bank. If they had the offroad premium hybrid, i probably would have gotten that. I really just wanted the cameras and upgarded interior, but rockbottom pricing i could find on an off road premium hybrid was like 54-55k. I figured 4k was worth the upgraded suspension, compressor, skids, and rockrails.

All this to say, I kind of upsold myself because the feature set i wanted required the premium trim, and from there it was hybrid or not. And I wanted the hybrid because of the upgraded power invertor as well. Except it turns out a lot of people want those features so it was hard to get, except they had a trailhunter for 4k more and i said fuck it. Let's have a proper midlife crisis, sign me up for an MMA gym, where's some drywall to punch?

That was kind of my thought process. YOLO and it’s only money. I can make more if I need to. Early retirement gift to myself plus our Subaru struggles with towing wrt its suspension. We camp and like having power inverter, built-in compressor, a 6-ft. bed, and the creature comforts.

 

[lauren01]

Ah gotcha, ya I wouldn’t mind thicker plates as well. Gunna add it to the list of more things to buy lol

it is steel.

 

[Leucosia]

That was kind of my thought process. YOLO and it’s only money. I can make more if I need to. Early retirement gift to myself plus our Subaru struggles with towing wrt its suspension. We camp and like having power inverter, built-in compressor, a 6-ft. bed, and the creature comforts.

I was in the 5 foot bed range mostly because I was going to daily it as well and getting around downtown on a 6 foot bed sounded daunting, I'm already struggling to park it where i live now. If I was out in the suburbs, I probably wouldn't care.

But yea, I saw someone with a trailhunter on youtube plugging in an air fryer and cooking a frozen pizza and I thought, "yea, I want that." Got camping stoves and all, but the idea of plugging in a whole godamned air fryer into my truck? fuck yea.

 

[PNWkip]

I am seeing a pattern here:

Trailhunter owners that are explaining why they like their truck.

And SR5 or OR people that are complaining how crappy the club is from outside, behind the red rope.

lol, jk

I love my Trailhunter, could I have avoided the extra cost by building up a different trim, probably, kinda. Still replacing a lot of the stuff on the Trailhunter with aftermarket, but I’ll take the upper echelon badge.

This was my first truck, I came from wide body BMW M world where every 2 years I was used to 138k+ sticker prices. So the 67k felt like a relief.

I think the trail runner is rad. But I am obviously in a different tax bracket than you so building out my SR5 was was partially an affordability thing for me.

All Tacomas are cool Tacomas though!

 

[JayZap]

I think the trail runner is rad. But I am obviously in a different tax bracket than you so building out my SR5 was was partially an affordability thing for me.

All Tacomas are cool Tacomas though!

Absolutely, when driving and I see another taco, I say “tacooo” and the wave my fingers over the steering wheel lol

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