I actually thought taco's were pretty high, they're higher than my truck when it was stock (89 4runner)... but mine has a low roof... thankfully, i JUST fit in a parking garage...
But sit in a toyota, it's a car position.
Sit in a ford, it's a truck position, the roof needs to be higher for head room.
What i go by, is the wheel well gap, toyota annihalates ford there

 

i have to say, body height is bad and frame height from ground is good. With that said, the tacoma is better all around. I have a friend with a 4x4 ranger, the tacoma has more ground clearance. Who cares if the body is low? Plus, the rangers don't even come with a front skid, pretty pathetic.

 

Because the Ranger tries to compensate for it's lack of off road prowess with a taller stance. It's like a weightlifter trying to beat up a ninja. Just ain't gonna happen.

 

I just know that I wouldn't want to have to climb into anything taller than my rig on a daily basis.

 

my friend has a 97 ranger 4x4, he just ordered a 3 inch body (on back order) right after i ordered mine. my truck sat a lot higher then his stock, and i don't think it will be any different with the same amount of lift, not only is my rook higher then his but my rockers and driveline are too. my friend with a 96 fulll size chevy has a three inch body lift, cranked t-bars, 2 inch blocks out back, and 33's and my truck ( 89 truck 3 inch body lift 31's) sits about 1 inch lower then his. he is the kind of person that lifted his truck to sit taller then other trucks on the road, not for offroading. he always says how his truck is taller and i saw i have better ground clearance, he knows this and says a dumb@$$ ignorant comment, and says """"well when you measure yourself do you measure up to your head or your b@ll$. i looked at him and laughed. some people lift their truck for different reasons then others, his lift is for "cosmetics" and would make his truck worse offroad. i think domestic trucks have a great distance not only from hood to roof, but from the floor to the top of the seats. thats why 4crawler sells the seat lifts, so it doesn't feel so much like a car inside.
neliconcept... i find myself when driving that the front of my hood to be just as high as full size trucks but when i compare roof lines the full size trucks have bigger distance between hood and roof

im done

 

i wheel my truck, its not a macho thing, but it is something i have noticed about the ranger to the tacoma.

 

actually my buddies FX4 has a massive front skid plate from the factory

 

im not saying your truck is lifted for the worng reasons im just saying that many people loof at the roof lines and others at the under ground clearance lines....that is what separate the offroaders from the street queens.

 

My frame measures 18" off the ground. My body is 24". I am by no means a street queen for any reason. I know that i have more ground clearence than most normal trucks out there, and mated with 33" tires, ground clearence is greatly improved over the p size tires. I don't think my truck was built to be an offroad 4x4, just merely a bad road conditions 4x4. I do love wheeling my truck whenever i can though.

 

I think he was trying to say that for the most part folks that are worried about how high the truck is are usually the ones that never take them wheeling ie; street queens. Those worried about clearance height are the ones that usually off road or 4x them. Who cares if it sits higher, as long as the clearance is good, keep wheeling. If you haven't noticed any problems when off roading then don't sweat it.

 

good point. So the stock tacoma SR5 4x4 has roughly 12.75 inches of frame to ground clearence with stock P265s. Just thought i would open up a new kind of thread.