2019 Toyota Tacoma TRD Pro Continues to Rule Dirt, Professionally
Breathe easy, Taco fanatics?Toyota has neither killed off the TRD Pro, its hardest-core, most off-road-ready factory Tacoma pickup, nor neutered its abilities. The limited-edition truck returns for 2019 packing the same Fox Racing Shox dampers, special exterior touches, and exclusive paint-color option that have defined the breed since 2014, before the Tacoma?s heavy refresh for 2016.
Once again, you can have the TRD Pro in any color as long as it?s Super White, Midnight Black, or?replacing last year?s Cavalry Blue?Voodoo Blue. (For those not in the know, the TRD in the name refers to Toyota Racing Development, Toyota?s in-house performance arm.) Oh, and you had better like the Tacoma crew cab with the shortest available bed length. No extended-cab, long-bed options for you! The TRD Pro?s front end keeps its TRD-exclusive blacked-out grille with old-school TOYOTA lettering, although beneath it Toyota has fitted a new skid plate. Only fastidious fanboys will notice that the standard TRD cat-back exhaust wears a new black-painted tip.
The suspension is still made up of TRD front coil springs that raise the ride height by 1.0 inch, progressive-rate rear leaf springs, a larger front anti-roll bar relative to non?TRD Pro Tacomas, and 2.5-inch-diameter Fox Racing Shox internal-bypass dampers front and rear. The rear shock absorbers even have external oil reservoirs. Beyond the suspension, the TRD Pro gets a locking rear differential and the regular Tacoma?s available 278-hp 3.5...
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