Whats the purpose of a double cab?

The DC is perfect. I have had many people in my back seats and there’s plenty of room. Unless you haul really fat people around.

 

Glamping, short for "glamorous camping," is a style of camping that combines the experience of being outdoors with luxurious amenities and comforts,

 

When it becomes 'Glamping'

 

The 22+ DblCabs are smaller then pre-22

Deal killer for me as to what i was accustomed to in my 2018

Chevy offers a spacious DblCab but only in the 2500/3500 models so that was a deal killer also.

 

Main advantage of the extended and double cabs regardless of make was always 6.5 foot bed with same length of a crew cab.

The double cabs with the tiny rear doors always look odd to me. Disproportional.

Toyota got it right with the previous generation with the concealed door handles and upsweep glass styling. It gave the dbl cap a different profile than the crew cabs in a good way. A unique feature in the market. The newer version with tiny doors was a move backward to conform with others that looks like an dumbed down version of the crew cab styling

 

Another answer is that the Double Cab is the only alternative to the darn Crewmax school bus. I still wish they offered a normal pickup truck with regular cab and eight foot bed.

 

A pickup with a 8ft Bed goes together like peanut butter and jelly = SIMPLE FIX

 

If Toyota did the RIGHT thing, they would replenish their Dealer Lots with NEW pre-22 DblCab SR5 TRD 4WD Tundras = they would sell out in a few days

 

Except that the consumer (Apparently) wants school busses....

 

Yeah....I ain't proud!!!
I did my fair share of sweating in my younger days camping.
We'd go to the beach to camp and of course there were people all up and down the beach partying!!
You had to tie one on just so you could sleep because it was so hot....pass out whichever.
You'd wake up or come out of your alcohol induced coma feeling like SHIT!!!
Then you'd fall asleep in your lawn chair and get roasted from the Sun!!!
Good Times!!!
Or at least I tell myself that.....
I couldnt do it today for the life of me!!

 

There was a time when we would rough camp, tent, remote area, no civilization. We moved to tent camping in a campground. Still sleeping on the ground but had public bathrooms and showers. Got a pop up, nice, AC and heat. Almost real beds off of the ground. Then we moved to rentals, houses in areas we wanted to be.
No regrets, wouldn't change any of it.
Won't go back to sleeping on the ground without climate control again either.

 

DITTO

 

I actually have the converse question whenever I see a crew cab with a 5.5 bed that isn’t actually carrying a crew: “why did they buy a pick-up?”

 

Lol carrying people dogs gear bikes and camping gear the possibilities are endless

 

i went to buy a 2025 Tundra DblCab
Upon opening the back door i notice they shortened the space/area of the back and i went CC

I barely fit my gear in the pre-22 DblCab and there was no way that the new DblCab had enough room(disgusting).

Love the CC with a 6.5 Bed but miss the 8 foot Bed = it was a trade-off

 

There is probably some truth to this but I'm only interested in a DC. I just searched again and there are 13 dealers within 100 miles of my location and only 1 DC that is for sale, and that one is in the build phase. If I wanted a CC there's 100's of choices in my area closer that 50 miles

 

lol. Yes, the POSSIBILITIES are endless. People actually carrying out those possibilities are few and far between (at least what I’ve seen in Virginia).

 

Curious. Do you utilize 100% of the volume and payload of the 6.5ft bed of your double cab, 100% of the time you drive it?

 

As you know, it is all about utilization when you need it.

If you do not have the capacity, whether Cab or Bed, then you wish you had it when you need it.

It all comes down to which 'utilization' is most important/necessary to the individual owner.

 

That tells you what the real world prefers which is why i made this thread originally

 

Yup. People have families with little short people, thus there is a demand for multi purpose vehicles. Conversely, I am sure there are other grumpy old men like me that would prefer a pickup truck with a regular cab and eight foot bed. Unfortunately, we are outnumbered. The manufacturers are going to provide what sells. I buy a pickup truck for what I can put in the back, not the front. A Crew cab(school bus) with a 5.5 foot bed is useless, to me. Obviously others have an interest in them.

 

It can also prove my point, you can't sell me what you don't build or only build in very limited numbers. I've had 3 DC Tundras, 2003, 2010, and 2019, I've test drove CC's and I just don't like them. My point being since Toyota doesn't make what I really want, a regular cab with a 6.5' bed and my second choice the DC's are almost impossible to find I'm currently looking at Fords. As a life long Toyota guy it feels dirty just looking at Fords but I'm not buying a CC, that's for sure.

 

obviously. My post was more directed at the insinuation that CrewMax owners as a whole not only fail to utilize the cab space all the time, but are also eternally flaccid due to the marginally less convenient smaller bed size.

As has been repeated ad nauseam, there isn't really much that a 6.5' bed holds that a 5.5' bed cant, for 98% percent of owners.

 

I do, yes. It is not my daily. I use it as a bike hauler.

 

So technically, "no" but you would fall in the 2% of owners as mentioned previously.

 

'Real world' is not always a smart world......as we see in the major FAIL of all truck manufacturers in the past 5 years.

"Thinking themselves as 'wise' they stumble over simple truth"

 

Technically, 6.5 is a BIG difference from the stubby 5.5
8ft RULZ

5.5 is a BIG shoebox = ad nauseum

 

A shoebox is a great place to put shoes.

Also, continuing your logic, a V8 >> V6 regardless. Toyota has recently demonstrated that that logic is flawed (despite a few hiccups).

 

I love the back and forth about why each cab configuration is better than the one they didn't buy. And that their chosen configuration is better because, well it is for them. It's so short sighted to think that what works best for you is what everyone else wants and or needs. Grow the f up.

 

i C u do not live in reality

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