CAB AND DOOR SIZE

P rated tires can carry more weight than your GVWR. Don't worry about it.

 

My understanding is that GVWR is an arbitrary value and determined by how much load the tires can take dynamically, together with how the company wants the vehicle to be classified when sold in a particular state.

I may be wrong in this, but again, my understanding is that the door jam sticker is mainly a tire load sticker, and the GVWR is directly correlated to it.

 

OH! OK, that's completely incorrect.

 

Tires are definitely not the only factor and it's definitely not arbitrary.

 

The door size isn't the problem but the direction in which it opens. On my Tacoma AC the reverse opening doors give you good access to slide larger items in. On a Tundra with its people oriented door the opening aligns with the seat so getting big stuff over onto the flat floor may be tricky. Hard to say without seeing one in person. On my Tacoma I went as far as to remove the silly jump seats and console that really messed up that space. I suppose you could do it on a DC Tundra.

Like you guys I have no need to carry people in the back so I am leaning towards a DC with 6.5 bed. But Toyota's limitations on trims, options and color combinations might make it difficult for me to find what I want. So it may come down to compromising on one or more of color, trim, or bed length. Seems crazy to have to compromise on anything when you are talking about $50-60k, but there we are.

 

Yikes!

 

About 1 foot. ;-)

 

Door size definitely matters. The dc taco and the dc tundra have very similar legroom numbers, however the door on the tundra is smaller

 

Sure bigger doors make it easier to get stuff in there. But I think we have a disconnect because Toyota names the cabs different from Tacoma to Tundra. The Tacoma Double Cab is a crew cab and the Tacoma Access Cab is just a small space with fold down jump seats while the Tundra Double Cab is a real bench seat just stuffed into a smaller space than the CrewMax. The Tundra DC space is bigger than a Tacoma Access Cab space for sure but the door opens the other way which might make it harder to slide stuff in there. I need to see one in person. Why Toyota calls a crew cab a CrewMax in Tundra and then call a crew cab in a Tacoma a Double Cab is beyond me.

 

My guess is physical size/truck ratio is similar DC to DC

 

The DC back seat access is definitely tight, but it’s about the the same as in your AC Tacoma. So if you’re used to that, you’ll be fine. If you were hoping to gain access, the DC rear door is not for you.

 

My AC Tacoma door space is a lot bigger then my DC tundra. But the DC backseat room and quality is way bigger and better obviously.

 

It looks to me as though both model cabs are 2-3" shorter than the outgoing generation. I went for the gen 2.5 DC because it was the largest of the available DC's and closer to the big 3 crew cab. I found the Toyota Crew cab too big. This new generation seems more in line with the others. I'm not interested in the 22 Tundra, but if I was would only consider the Crew Max. The DC is way too small.