I LOVE my Toyota Vigo! Since
I LOVE my Toyota Vigo! Since 2003 I've lived in Thailand much of the year and in November 2004 bought the new 2005 Toyota Vigo 3.0 D4D 4 door (which is basically a Tacoma) with an insulated air conditioned Carryboy shell on it. It runs great and has plenty of power. Pretty much all pickups and many SUV's in Thailand are diesel and there are no large pickups there like Tundra or F-150 size. If you want a PU with a gas engine it will be a 'Special Order'. I have a fairly heavy foot yet got 28-30 mpg combined average when it was new and still get around 25. I have about 160,000 miles on it and take good care of it using synthetic oil and good quality diesel and still none of the black exhaust you typically see following diesel vehicles. Diesel is subsidized there (which is good :-) for me) since most pickups and trucks are used for work. They will load a PU until the front wheels barely touch the ground yet they seem to last forever. Probably 1/2 of their 'Long Haul' trucks use NG/LPG and it is cheap to convert a gas vehicle to LPG. There are NG/LPG fueling stations all over the place... what a concept. I have no idea why we aren't doing that here in the US. I'm bringing my wife and daughter here and we will soon be spending most of our time here in CA for about 5-7 years and will need to buy a vehicle which is how I found this website in doing my homework looking for a PU. I'm sad Toyota won't have a diesel PU until 2016 and I'm also sad to be selling my PU in Thailand since it has been so good to me yet I can't just let it sit most of the year. For those of you planning on getting a PU and can wait for 2016... it will be worth the wait.