How many Tacoma Step Side did Toyota produce during the first generation?

How many Tacoma Step Side did Toyota produce during the first generation?

 

Too many

 

What do I win if I guess correctly?

 

I dont know, but they are cool. One of the better looking stepside trucks ever made in my opinion.

 

Not a fan of stepsides or flaresides, the 1st gen Tacoma is one of the better looking trucks with a stepside bed. The one pictured looks good. I also see one on here with SCS F5s that's also silver, I almost want to say it has a SAS but can't recall.

 

Pretty clean truck OP!

 

Whatever the number, they didn't make enough of these red ones!



-Mike

 

This was my stepside back about 4-5 years ago....

 

You should be proud of how your car looks !!

 

Unicorn in the flesh I had no idea they made a reg cab step side!

 

I would have guessed way below 50K. units.

 

My reg cab stepside in black sand pearl 2 other of my buddy’s with reg cab stepside

 

Considering Toyota only sold approx. 150,000 trucks by the end of the production of the first generation in 2004, I assume the number is significantly less than 50,000.

http://carsalesbase.com/us-car-sales-data/toyota/toyota-tacoma/

 

Bartmaster, you dropped a zero there somewhere. Between NUMMI and TMMBC Tacoma capacity per year was over 250,000.

Wikipedia says

"In 2008, Toyota proactively announced a 15-year, unlimited mileage corrosion warranty for 1995-2000 model years due to inadequate rustproofing and frame corrosion issues affecting over 800,000 Tacoma."

"On November 21, 2012, Toyota recalled about 150,000 Tacoma mid-size pickup trucks from the model years 2001 to 2004 that were sold primarily in 20 cold-weather U.S. states."

 

shows about 150K per year for first gen.

 

???

I said 150,000 was the production number by the end of 2004, as in that’s how many they made in 2004.

 

I gotcha. Sorry, I should have known your math was better than that!

 

Total Tacoma Sales

2017 198.124
2016 191.631
2015 179.562
2014 155.041
2013 159.485
2012 141.353
2011 110.705
2010 106.198
2009 111.824
2008 144.655
2007 173.238
2006 178.351
2005 168.831
2004 152.932
2003 154.154
2002 151.960
2001 161.983
2000 147.295
1999 155.476
1998 152.770
1997 138.558
1996 141.094
1995 123.257

 

So the step side was an option for 7 yrs.?

Not a common option either, not unheard of but def. not common. I doubt many were even aware when shopping back then unless they happened to see one and it made a positive impression.

I s'pose it is possible 50K were made though after seeing the totals for those years so I'll place a vote there. I hade a 5 lugger with it for a flip and loved the look but did find the small bed kind of a drawback. Went to pick up a finish mower deck for a tractor and it wouldn't fit w/o damage to the truck.
Lots of people said the same about full size step sides through the years too though and actually the Ranger stepside was pretty popular.

 

I have a 2000 Tacoma side step. I didn’t seek it out (I bought it used several years ago, my main requirement that it be 5 speed manual, and it just happened to be a side step). I’m in the process of fixing it up now, and although I do like the look of the style, I’m trying to find a new tailgate for it, and it’s not easy to find one.