As you well know, since you made me take the Tacoma when we went to look at the hazard tree, they do pretty good. Bearing in mind that you made me drive up a road that was probably off limits to any thing but a D-6 (as in "it's okay Bob, just hit that big slide area with some extra speed and you'll probably get across without rolling over") It still had the paper plates and you figured that was a good way to baptize it. You were right. Don't let that go to your head.
I take mine to the woods and I don't baby it. I can go places the bigger pickups can't go and get turned around in tighter spots. I've used it as a skidder more than once and if you're careful they'll move a hell of a big log. I can carry everything I need for a day's work, and more. After a year and a half and twenty thousand hard miles I have had zero mechanical issues with it and it's never let me down. No squeaks, rattles, or leaks, and everything still works like the day I bought it.
Will it carry the load a full sized pickup will? No.
Will it tow a huge trailer in mountainous country? Not very well.
Will it out-accelerate a Maserati? Nope.
It will , if properly maintained, probably last you a long time. Maybe forever.
It will, over time, save you big bucks in gas, tire, licensing, and insurance costs over the money spent on a full size.
It will, when you go on your weekly WalMarche raid to Centralia, be able to be parked in the narrow slots without the aid of a tugboat and two flagmen.
Get a good canopy for it with the side windows that flip up. You won't be sorry.
A lot of the fallers I know have changed over to the smaller pickups with Toyota the most commonly seen. We used to stand around and BS about how powerful our f-250s and Dodge diesels were...now we stand around and compare notes on gas mileage and and how much we've saved on incidentals.
When you get the new Toyota why not drive it down here to break it in? I have some really good roads we could take the new off of it with.