Yours truly is one of those snooty guys who turns his nose up at test driving trucks.

They’re just not me. You have to have hair, tattoos and be under 40 to drive these beasts on big all-wheel-driven wheels, don’t you?

But I took one look at the new-generation Tacoma hybrid and decided it was perfect to drive to – yes, you guessed it – Tacoma, Washington.

Hey, it was the thought of driving a greenish version of what are normally gas guzzlers. I’d still have some green cred, though the absence of body adornments and exploding follicles would deny me street cred…

The five-seater Double Cab, as Toyota calls it – think four-door crew cab, as others describe this configuration – offers loads of room for four or five bruisers. I mean muscular young guys.

And out back, the tester had a five-

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