[joewildlife]

Hey,
I posted this on the Tundra Forum and just to be ornery I figured I'd post it here and see what y'all would say....


I bought a 2000 pound bass boat package a few years ago, it is an heavy aluminum 17' boat with a 60 hp motor, 56" wide bottom and 83" beam. This is not a small boat, and is quite heavy when you add three batteries, gas, gear, coolers, trailer, and maybe even a full livewell.

It did NOT tow okay with an Isuzu Rodeo V6, not at all!

Not wanting to make the V6 mistake again, I naturally went and bought a Tundra V8. I went with the Access Cab because of the occasional need for a back seat. The Tundra is the first V8 I've had in awhile and tows my boat wonderfully!

So, I'm talking to a guy and he says "you should have just bought a Taco DC longbed V6, it would tow your boat just as well....blah blah blah...and get better gas mileage." and he quoted that the 4785 lb Tundra has almost equal weight to HP and weight to torque numbers as the Taco.

So I get to thinking about it and a bit of buyer's remorse starts sinking in...is it possible that the Tacoma could pull my boat as confidently as the Tundra? Am I wasting money on gas to run a V8 when a Taco would have been just as good at towing?

Tundra weight to HP ratio: 17.66 Taco 17.52
Tundra weight to ft/lb ratio: 15.29 Taco 15.55

Boy that's close. But I figure I need to add the boat into those figures.

Tundra + Boat weight to HP ratio: 25.04 Taco+Boat 26.00
Tundra + Boat weight to ft/lb ratio: 21.68 Taco+Boat 23.06

Just cause 266 ft/lb of torque gets around a 4135 lb Taco just as well as 313 ft/lb of torque gets around a 4785 pound Tundra (or does it?) Doesn't mean the Taco would handle the extra 2000 pounds as well as the Tundra. Extreme example you could have 150 ft/lb torque in a 2000 pound car and you know it can't pull a 2000 pound boat!!

Am I thinking right here? Anybody tow with both? Did I do the right thing going with the Tundra, when towing capacity was THE reason I switched rigs? (If I didn't have the boat, I'd be driving a V6 RAV4 Sport.) Really, I got the truck to tow the 2000 lb boat confidently. Did I buy the right truck?
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