2026 Toyota Tacoma TRD Price, Interior, MSRP

2026 Toyota Tacoma TRD Price, Interior, MSRP   –  Rolling in on a mildly lifted suspension wearing wide 16-inch alloys, the TRD Pro is a whole new level of aggression for the 2017 Toyota Tacoma. Available as a package on both manual and automatic versions of the short-box doublecab, the Pro adds skid plating, a matte-black hood scoop, Rigid Industries light pods, blacked-out decals, and a massive all-caps “TOYOTA” grille.

Decked out in Cement Grey, it looks the business, the dream of any BC backroads-basher. This is the Tacoma for the downhill mountain biker crowd, the kind of truck that comes with a standard GoPro mount so you can film all your best bad ideas. It looks like it should come with a flat-bill baseball cap and a four-pack of Monster in the centre console (side-note, said console perfectly fits a four-pack). Sick, brah – just one problem.

2026 Toyota Tacoma TRD Redesign and Update Plan

Exterior and Interior

On-road, it handles as well as a full-size pick-up should and is sufficiently quiet, but Toyota has clearly recognized it’s the truck that people are least likely to take seriously off-road, and hasn’t fitted the fidgety crawl control feature or locking rear differential. It was too big to take over some of the tighter obstacles on our test course, but managed itself well enough crawling over the moguls, logs, and rocks.

In the full-size segment, all the competitors have been completely re-done (see: GM and Ram) or significantly updated in recent years. The Tundra, however, soldiers on with evolutionary updates year over year. Despite being the old dog in the pack, the Tundra’s sales have risen an astonishing 25 percent in the past year.

2026 Toyota Tacoma TRD Specs

The Tacoma has the most contemporary interior of this truck trio. While it has more digital componentry (a push-button start – imagine!), the controls follow the Toyota hallmark of being easily manipulated, even with gloves on. Unlike the 4Runner, the four-wheel drive system is adjusted via a rotary dial, and while electronically actuated, it still requires a tedious song and dance of stopping, selecting neutral, and back into drive, just to go between 4-Low and 4-High. During a couple of instances, if the sequence wasn’t done just right, the Tacoma would refuse to do much of anything but sit there and make you ponder the folly of your ways. Other systems these days enable the shift on-the-fly (or at least on-the-crawl) and in fewer steps.

Engine and Performance

Climbing into the cabin provided a few further gripes. Like its predecessor, the new Taco has a somewhat cramped cabin, and finding a comfortable driving position takes a bit of fiddling. The seats are mounted pretty flat to the floor, so there’s not much gap between the steering wheel seat bottom, depending on your normal driving position. Still, the TRDification of this particular model’s interior provides a few bright points. The seats themselves look pretty good, and there’s a hilariously chunky TRD shifter topping the gated shifter.

Toyota’s Entune system continues to be exactly what you’d expect from the company: not too flashy, but easy to use. Pairing via Bluetooth was quick and simple, and I never had an issue with streaming audio, fielding calls, or using the navigation. The kids loved the truck. The crewcab is just big enough to handle a couple of car seats, and you could make the argument that a shortbox Tacoma would work just fine as a secondary family car. It’s short enough to be maneuverable, and the standard backup camera made city parking easy. It’s also not too tall for underground parking.  2026 Toyota Tacoma TRD Price

2026 Toyota Tacoma TRD Fuel Economy

On the Sea-to-Sky highway, the Tacoma TRD Pro handled with much the same aplomb as any other Tacoma. Upgrades to the suspension include revised spring rates front and rear, and shock absorbers by offroad specialists Fox. While intended for rough road applications, these haven’t hurt how the Tacoma handles a bit of twisty tarmac.

No, the issue is not the suspension, but the engine and transmission combo. Toyota replaced their somewhat thirsty 4.0L V6 with a 3.5L unit when the current generation Tacoma was launched, and while fuel economy is up on paper, the relative lack of torque can be frustrating.   2026 Toyota Tacoma TRD Price

2026 Toyota Tacoma TRD Safety Features

The V6 produces 278 hp up at the top of the rev range, and a healthy-sounding 265 lb-ft at 4,600 rpm. To anyone still clunking around in an automatic Toyota pickup from the early days, the TRD Pro will feel like a rocketship. But anyone swapping into a truck like this out of even a four-cylinder Honda Accord will find the TRD Pro a bit sluggish. The Tacoma offers about the same level of acceleration as a mid-sized four-cylinder sedan, but it requires some pretty serious poking at the accelerator to get it to pass. The power’s there if you want to dig into the revs, but this being a pickup truck, I’d be perfectly happy to sacrifice some top end power for better torque.

Further, the six-speed automatic seems to be a bit on the fence about what its job is. On one hand, it’s not too quick to downshift, ready to save fuel. On the other hand, it’ll also sometimes hang out in fifth at highway speeds, meaning you’re not getting the best fuel economy. Good luck hitting the official targets: while the Tacoma is improved overall from the 4.0L V6, it’s still not shy about drinking fuel. Mixed-mileage ended up around 13.5 L/100 km.  2026 Toyota Tacoma TRD Price

2026 Toyota Tacoma TRD Price and Release Date

Still, after an absence from the market, the Tundra TRD Pro is back and gains the same 2.5-inch Fox bypass shocks and the TRD skid plate as the other trucks. The Tundra also gets a set of handsome 18-inch BBS forged wheels, too. Ultimately the Tundra TRD Pro will serve its purpose as a well-equipped, durable rig with a bit of extra attitude and suspension capability, but despite its $64,000 MSRP coming perilously close to the Ford Raptor’s cost, it’s not a hardcore off-road machine.  2026 Toyota Tacoma TRD Price