[Max Cow Disease]

I'm in a 2006 RWD Tacoma, and can echo the previous posters' ails about the horrors of slippery roads with this arrangement. I have capable winter tires with studs in them, but was a little slow to get them on this year and spent the few days surrounding the blizzard sliding sideways and backwards on rock-hard, useless all-seasons with no weight in the back.

However, I've had the winters on the past couple of days and the difference has been astonishing (I always had them on early in previous winters and never really had a chance to contrast them to the all-seasons on bad roads). I still don't have any weight in the back but the studs seem to grab onto pretty much anything, and I never seem to lose the back end. You still spin the odd tire, but as long as you somewhat know what you're doing and are aware of the limits, it's serviceable.

I'd obviously prefer a 4x4, but there was a pretty good deal on the table when I bought this truck, and outside of the sub-optimal winter performance of the RWD at times, I love the truck. My next vehicle will likely be a 4x4 Tacoma, though I'm hoping with the 2015 or 2016 models that advances are made in the fuel efficiency department, as the full-size engines certainly seem to have caught up/surpassed the mid-sized trucks in the past decade.