Truck You Money: 2016 Toyota Tacoma Priced, Starts Under 25 Grand - Car and Driver (blog)

SR: The starter price is for a base rear-wheel-drive Access Cab with a six-speed automatic and the 2. 7-liter four-cylinder, just one of 29 configurations across two cab styles, two beds, two engines, and three transmissions. These base models come with two caveats: There’s no more manual transmission in this version since only one percent of Tacoma buyers bought a base stick-shift, and the four-door Double Cab (another $830) only comes with the four-cylinder and,... TRD Off Road: These models ($31,665 for 4×2 Access Cab) pack the meat and potatoes: Bilstein shocks, locking rear differential, selectable terrain mapping for throttle and braking, and Crawl Control, a combination of low-speed cruise control and... The manual, which comes only with four-wheel drive and the Double Cab, substitutes those automated features for its own specialized traction control. Limited: Those who pine for a Lexus pickup—or something approximating one, anyway—may drift to the Limited trim, which comes only as a short-bed Double Cab that starts at $35,645 in 4×2 configuration. Source: blog.caranddriver.com