Quote Originally Posted by Ronin13 View Post
Bad for prospective buyers, not for current owners. And my gripe about the Tacoma is that it's not in my affordability range until it gets to be around 6 years old, meanwhile, I can go out and get a '13 Frontier.
How so? I was a perspective buyer a few years ago and I was smart enough to see that higher used truck prices meant higher resale value. They go hand in hand so you're not going to find a Tacoma that's only a few years old worth half as much as it's new price but this also means that you don't have to worry about selling your new Tacoma (or used for that matter) at a HUGE discount to get it sold. They're a desirable truck and you can try to explain why this is a bad thing or you can realize that this equates to resale value (usually due to proven reliability over decades of service) and invest a little bit more up front to get a more reliable truck that is worth more later or you can save a few bucks now and probably have more issues to fix while owning it and get much less for resale or trade-in later. That's just how it works & I don't make the rules of the free market.