What started me on buying the Lexus was when I could not buy a new Tacoma with a 4 liter V6.
I did not want the 4 cylinder turbo engine.
I briefly looked at trying to buy a 2015 Tacoma. It is the last year they made my exact same truck. Prior to switching to a drive by wire transmission. Which they had issues within 2016 & 2017. Eventually they fixed the transmission, but stopped making the V6 in 2020.
I actually found a couple 2015 Long bed double cab(what I have) with 50K miles. They wanted $25K for them. I decided to keep driving mine with 129K miles. I know its history.
The Lexus is a hard top convertible. They only made them for five years. To compete with the BMW hard top convertibles.
“I did not want the 4 cylinder turbo engine.”
Ford was introducing the “Ecoboost” 6 cylinder turbocharged engine when they were phasing out the big V8. I test drove the V6 and decided I did not want that. That’s what drove me to buy the used V8.
We had previously had a turbocharged Volvo 740 and the turbo froze up. Turbos are simple machines and I was shocked to see the bearings fail on it. So I really prefer naturally aspirated engines.