by HK1837 on Mon, 20 Jan 2020 7:26 +0000
I don’t think there was ever an SR5 single cab. I am 6’5” and have a 2011 SR5 V6 dual cab, I bought it over an Xtra cab as there were no auto V6 extra cab and no single cab SR5 V6 auto. I only bought SR5 as I wanted ABS and side air bags.
As for leg room, the dual cab has plenty, but the seats are awful for long distances. I used to get a sore @rse within 100km. I fitted a Recaro Ergomed driver’s seat and it slides back to almost touch the rear seat. You wouldn’t have this much adjustment on a single cab though. Having sat in a few ‘79 series cruiser and Nissan Patrol utes, their legroom is terrible for me and the single cab Hilux would be no better.
As for aircon, I have driven to Melbourne and Adelaide in mine (from Lake Macquarie) in days we’ll over 40deg with no issues, and I hate heat with a passion, my aircon is on cold 365 days a year, even on 12deg days in winter. If the inside of the car is warmer than the outside I can’t stand it - this is why all my Mrs’ cars have had dual zone climate, so I can have my side on minimum when hers is on 24deg. Her Lexus has heated or cooled seats so as you can imagine my side is always on cool!
Just a word of warning, manual V6’s are not very nice to drive. When you say touring I assume you’ll have some load? I do not like diesels at all, way to underpowered for my liking, but I’d have a diesel manual or auto Hilux over a manual V6 Hilux. Drive both manual and auto V6 and you’ll see what I mean. I’m pretty sure the manuals are tuned for less torque too somehow, even the sales brochures show it in the figures. Probably the clutches can’t handle it. You can feel it when you drive one, you’ll wear your left leg out changing gears. I grew up with manual 6cyl and V8 Holden and Chevys. I reckon I’d be changing gears three times as much in a manual V6 Hilux than I ever did in an old 6cyl 4spd Holden.
It looks like you could get a V6 auto single cab SR up until 2011 (MY10), no more after the 2012 facelift. Looks the same for manual V6 as well although you could get an SR5 V6 manual extra cab up until the facelift for 2012 (starts about 9/11 production).