The Toyota Tacoma PreRunner's history stretches to 1998, but the story behind it draws inspiration from real desert racers.

“You want your butt firmly in the seat,” Rob MacCachren says as he helps me buckle into the bitch seat of his Baja prerunner, describing how to brace my body for a high-speed dash down the Mint 400 ...

I get a lot of emails with pictures of trucks, but Bobby Patton's new Jimco Reaper here stands out as a particularly fierce-looking manifestation of what's known as a "luxury prerunner." So, please, ...

When you’re a race-winning veteran of Baja, you aren’t expected to show up to the desert in a run-of-the-mill lifted pickup decked out with the latest lightbars or fancy artwork of one of the handful ...

The 2024 Toyota Tacoma TRD PreRunner may be the coolest new truck of the bunch revealed last night. We have the full lowdown on new Tacos for you here, but wanted to specifically call out the TRD ...

The 2024 Toyota Tacoma TRD PreRunner pairs a rear-drive drivetrain with off-road enhancements. Toyota limits the PreRunner guise to the two-door Tacoma. The PreRunner comes standard with the likes of ...

The 2025 Toyota Tacoma TRD PreRunner is back, but perhaps you didn't notice it left. When Toyota's trucklet was introduced in 1995, you could buy a Tacoma as a high-riding, four-wheel-drive 4x4 or a ...

If you made a napkin doodle of what your beater truck would look like as a dune-jumping hero, and then actually built said truck, you might be a redneck. I mean, an industrious and experimental ...

The term prerunner has been transformed over the years from one denoting a purpose-built vehicle used by an off-road racing team as a scout vehicle prior to running a race to a type of truck that ...

At the 44th Moab Easter Jeep Safari, the media is invited to inspect and drive concept vehicles made by Mopar engineers who describe themselves as "the lunatic fringe." Every year they come up with ...

Ford gave its new 7.3-liter truck V8 some mighty big boots to fill when it named it Godzilla, but fill them it has. Tuners love its boost-compatible, 1,100 horsepower-capable stock internals, which in ...

The 2025 Toyota Tacoma TRD PreRunner is back, but perhaps you didn't notice it left. When Toyota's trucklet was introduced in 1995, you could buy a Tacoma as a high-riding, four-wheel-drive 4x4 or a ...