The 2024 Toyota Tacoma could also be sporting a serious redesign, however Toyota’s well-liked midsize truck is preserving the cab configurations that we’ve identified for many years. In contrast to some rivals, the 2024 mannequin shall be accessible as a four-door double cab or an XtraCab — what some (I can’t be the one one) would possibly name “a cab and a half,” principally a two-door mannequin.

However so far as I’m involved, contemplating the brand new Tacoma shall be accessible as a two-door, lengthy mattress mannequin with a handbook transmission, that makes the ’Taco the “truckiest” amongst our present and upcoming crop of midsize vehicles within the U.S.

And never simply in a piece truck sense, though I totally perceive these XtraCab lengthy mattress fashions will enchantment largely to fleet managers who want a reliable workhorse. That enchantment, nevertheless, as soon as prolonged to off-road fashions, too, as Toyota’s personal promotional supplies present:

Toyota desires to hint the lineage of its new Tacoma TRD Professional immediately again to the vehicles that dominated at Baja with Ivan “Ironman” Stewart behind the wheel. Discover that these iconic motorsport fashions resemble the brand new two-door Tacoma greater than the TRD Professional, which can solely be accessible as a four-door mannequin.

The truth is, all the Tacoma’s increased trims will solely be accessible as a four-door double cab, beginning with the Tacoma TRD Sport, TRD Off-Highway, Restricted, TRD Professional and Trailhunter.

The one fashions that’ll be accessible as XtraCabs would be the Tacoma SR, SR5 and TRD PreRunner. These vehicles will even miss out on getting the brand new multi-link rear coil suspension — as an alternative that includes the same old rear leaf spring suspension. That’s comprehensible, although a bit unlucky for individuals who desire a two-door Tacoma with a protracted mattress as an overland or off-road platform to construct upon. However the mere truth {that a} new manual-transmission, two-door long-bed Tacoma remains to be round is sweet — a refreshing little bit of stubbornness on Toyota’s half.