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sometimes the anticipation of getting a new truck is more fun than the actual getting of the new truck I've driven the same truck for about six or seven years now this is a 98 Tacoma and I've loved it and it's still running like a champion has about two hundred and fifty thousand miles on it it's been a really good truck but today it's time to get something new I'm getting a 2018 Toyota Tacoma a truck 20 years newer than what this one is the reason why I've waited so long though to get a new truck is because this truck is still running just fine and does ninety percent of what a brand new truck would be so I haven't been able to justify the cost of a new truck yet because i 100% believe that buying a brand new truck off the lot is a terrible financial decision I'm gonna do it anyway but I'll explain why I tried to buy a truck here locally in Utah but it didn't quite work out with the dealership here car dealers aren't my favorite but I did find the exact truck I want in Boulder Colorado so come check it out with me as we fly over to Colorado and drive the truck back let's get started so let me introduce you to what I've been driving for the last eight years I've been through a lot with this little guy I've put about a hundred thousand miles on it I bought it when it had 160,000 and now it has 250,000 so starting back here this is where a fence jumped out into the road and hit me I fixed up most of it it did kind of damage this part right above the wheel defender I haven't done anything to the suspension of this truck but it does have a little bit of damage along the back I did replace this quarter panel from that same fence and I never did quite get this light fixed all the way it's kind of got a little gap used to be held on with duct tape eventually I get that bottom section attached the bumper is also kind of falling apart you know the truck's kind of been held together with duct tape mostly if that duct tape was gone the bumper would be hanging halfway down not the safest thing over here on this side no damage do you have a truck box full of tools you never know when you might need them the exhaust was wearing out a little while ago and so there's a huge hole in the center of the bed you can see the exhaust there and you can see all the way to the ground I did replace the exhaust myself and now everything is working fine give you a little tour of the inside so we can compare it to the 2018 Toyota Tacomas here we have the inside of the door we have the windows up and down a little bit dirty in here door lock window lock center consoles here inside of the truck we have the almost 250,000 miles on it the check engine light never does go off hopefully the new truck doesn't have that same issue the deck I did replace myself I did install a ten inch sub woofer in the back got a have you tunes going so yeah basically pretty low key there's not a whole lot of technology going on in a truck back from 1998 it is a manual transmission it's a 5-speed it does have the four-wheel drive in it as well this is the off-road package which is exactly what I'm looking for in the new truck as well and one change I am excited about is the new truck is a four-door where this is just a two-door and it just has that you know half a person spot in the back you can see the subwoofer here that I've wired up it's kind of fun so the anticipation has been there for about two years now I told myself when I hit a hundred thousand subscribers two years ago that I would buy myself a truck as like a reward but I could never justify it because this thing is just working so well all of the time Toyota has never died I was actually looking into some statistics of how much it costs to keep trucks going and keep vehicles going and Toyota was like number thirty on the list you all put the list right here so you could see it BMW is like number one with the highest repair cost and Toyota was the lowest so that's one of the reasons why I can justify buying a new one as well as I looked into buying a used one and the prices even three or four years old were almost the same as a brand new one because they hold their value so well I bought this truck seven years ago for about seven thousand dollars and even now if I was to turn around and sell on the classifieds I could get about four or five out of it even with all the miles that it has Toyota's last forever they hold their value forever it's a good deal needless to say I am very happy with this Tacoma I've had no problems with it for the entire time I've owned it I've only had to replace the starter motor except for these last couple months at 250,000 miles things are starting to disintegrate on a regular basis I did have to replace the clutch a little bit ago which was about a thousand dollars and took a couple days out of my time and that's another reason why I need a new truck is because as soon as it stops becoming a tool and more of a hindrance and it eats into my productivity then something else needs to happen now buying a brand new thirty seven thousand dollar truck is a bit on the extreme end of solving that problem but I'll explain the justification to you as we grab the new truck let's go to the airport so the plane has landed we've gotten all the way over to Boulder Colorado and I see the truck it's right here brand-new 2018 Toyota Tacoma four-door this is the cement color this is awesome it's got the sunroof up top it's got the short bed in the back I'll run you through the whole thing in just a minute but this thing is awesome it's got the tow package it's got rear lockers four-wheel drive testing it's sick and the best part is that this truck does not have the massive rust hole in the bed of the truck like my previous truck does so that's a step in the right direction so after years of waiting the truck is finally here I'm gonna go grab the keys from inside it's already paid for and everything just need to take off give you guys a tour of the inside just second so normally when you buy a brand-new truck and you're the first person to drive it off a lot you instantly lose thousands of dollars as you pull out of the lot like I just did but that's not the case with me I bought this truck and I'm gonna use it as a tool you know it's a business expense plus what I'm gonna do to this truck is gonna increase the value of it over what I just lost by pulling out of the parking lot yeah now the truck is off the lot and mine I'm gonna walk you through some of the features so we started off with 10 miles on the odometer now we're at like 78 or something like that I think we're in the middle of Colorado somewhere it's Colorado's much flatter than I anticipated but I'm gonna walk you through some of the features of the truck and why I chose it as my daily driver so first of all I chose the cement color because as unique to the Tacoma and it is also unique to the 2008 teens now you can get the off-road it's not limited to just the TRD package and so here we have the front grille we have the headlights this is like the projection bulbs and stuff like that it's a four-door so I can fit five people in it and then here we have the interior I did choose the black leather leather was not my first choice but it also it was part of like some kind of tech package or something and I did want the sunroof in it so that was fine I think the tech package was mandatory with the leather so I'll survive here we have the we're outlets for the back of the truck there's an outlet in the bed of the truck which I thought was pretty cool has a clutch start cancel with helps you when you're off-roading and stuff trying to get up a hill so you're inside the truck we have the dash for the leather steering wheel we have the center console here and parts that I think are pretty cool is that there's a wireless charger down here at the bottom so I can take my Galaxy s8 which has the wireless charging enabled same as the iPhone 8 and the iPhone 10 and I can set it down on this pad down here at the bottom and then it'll automatically start charging that light turns on here and I can turn on and off the wireless charging it has a bunch of safety features like this is a blind spot manager so if I press that if someone comes up in my blind spot in that mirror there's a light on the side and the light will blink letting me know that someone's in my blind spot so one safety feature there and that is one difference between this truck and my old truck so this one has like side airbags and you can't really put a price on safety like where I was talking about earlier that my old truck does 90% of what a new truck can do the old truck does not have the side airbags and as many safety features as this truck has so this truck has one of those like radar management systems when you're driving on the freeway it'll track the car in front of you in the car in front of you stuff the truck will stop automatically it also has the lane divergence systems where if you start to drift over one of the lines on the side of the road like if you're drowsy or something like that it'll start beeping at you and wait and wake you up and make sure that you know that you're drifting off the road old truck definitely doesn't have those features and if the features save your life there's no way you can put a monetary value on that so kind of cool that this truck has it we also have the heated seats for the driver and the passenger kind of fun and the climate control on both sides so this truck is also a manual tacoma meaning that i shift all the gears myself as I'm driving the representative that I talked to said that only 5% of trucks that are sold are sold with manual transmissions but I like having that kind of control when I drive and go off-roading and now let's check out the back seats kind of same thing here there's a ton of storage behind these things so I can lift those up and stick like tools and stuff remember with my old truck I had the truck box in the back and that's not the case with this one since the bed is shorter I'm gonna leave the truck box out and just use the space underneath the seats to store stuff also the whole thing lays down flat I can pull the headrest out and then stuff and tools and boards and construction equipment down inside of here with more storage space behind the scenes coming back to the bed of the truck drop this down this has a power outlet you can plug in power tools you can plug in lights if you're working like a construction project out in the middle of nowhere having a power outlet is handy especially in a truck because the truck is built to be useful and then you know have more storage compartments for you know tow straps and jumper cables and things like that as well I mentioned before that it has lockers on the rear tires I am gonna add a lift kit to this truck which are all kind of things that I had on my old truck also right here there is a headphone jack and a USB port so you can plug in you know the artillery cables and stuff definitely useful to the phones that have extra features so I'm gonna go drive the 450 miles back to Salt Lake Utah where I'm from was it worth the wait time will tell I don't have buyer's remorse yet I'm pretty excited to have this new truck it's a huge step above the 20 year old truck that I've been driving around for the last seven years a lot of people buy cars for better gas mileage and stuff but for me my personality and what I do I need something with a lot of features and having a truck with all of those bells and whistles helps me accomplish the things that I want to in my daily life and Tacoma after looking at a bunch of other brands is what I want to use I was talking with the friend one time about the usefulness of trucks in general and he said that a truck can win a race against any vehicle as long as the truck can pick the route or the payload we can put my truck up against the Tesla if the payloads a piano or I can pick the route because there's no way a Tesla can follow me up a mountain I'll be doing a couple more videos on this truck on my channel just showing the lift and showing the light bar installation if you have any questions obviously leave them down in the comments let me know what you think of my truck and let me know what your dream car is down in the comments thanks stump for watching and I'll see you around