Q: Recommendation about most reliable pickup trucks

asked by on May 15, 2016

In your opinion, what is the most dependable pickup truck? Any year, generation, make, mileage;

Toyota is the most dependable. I remember seeing a ’99 Tacoma with a 4-cylinder engine and standard transmission. It had 800,000 miles on it and it was still running pretty good. They make solid trucks. There is no arguing about the dependability of a Toyota.

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