2016 Toyota Tacoma Review - Automobile
The V-6 engine, replacing the 236-horsepower 4. 0-liter, is now a brand-new 278-horsepower 3. 5-liter. A similarly brand-new six-speed automatic replaces the five-speed, and there’s a new six-speed manual available to the roughly five percent of Tacoma buyers who want to shift for themselves. Towing capacity is as high as 6,800 pounds with a properly-equipped V-6. The new V-6 is interesting on several fronts, including fuel mileage, which, with the automatic, is up to 18 mpg city, 23 mpg highway in 4x4 models, compared to last year’s... the engine switches seamlessly between Otto and Atkinson (when the intake valve is held open longer than usual to get the most from the combustion process) as the engine computer tells it to. The engine also uses both direct and port fuel injection. The engine computer calculates when the likelihood of carbon may occur, and initiates a self-cleaning process using the port injection, and high-pressure bursts through a small side opening in the injectors. Inside, there are two cab configurations -- Access Cab, which has a pair of small clamshell-opening doors, and Double Cab, with two actual rear doors. The Double Cab rear doors lead to an actual rear seat where two can sit in relative comfort, three in much less comfort. Source: www.automobilemag.com
