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I am a 60 year old man. I have bought and owned 5 Tacomas in my life time. Never any problems with the ones I owned previously until now. I traded in a 2006 Tacoma Extended Cab for a new 2017 Toyota Extended Cab with the 3.5 L Atkinson motor and 6 speed automatic transmission. Something is terribly wrong with this truck. It feels like I am towing something all the time and the gas mileage is horrible. Going into a head wind or up a incline in the road causes the motor to down shift constantly. I drive this truck about 75% of the time on interstate I135 to my job which is a 41 mile round trip. We have our fair share of wind here in Kansas so I usually catch having to drive into the wind going to work or home. Driving into the wind with the cruse control on is disturbing to me. The truck is constantly down shifting and seems under powered or geared too high. I never run the truck hard and always drive the 75mph speed limit but my gas mileage on the interstate has been as low as 11.8 mpg on windy days to 16.7mpg on normal days, a big difference in the 23mpg listed on the window sticker for highway mpg. Yep! this ones a real dog. I don't know what the final outcome will be with this truck but I do regret that I bought it. NOT AS ADVERTISED... I have been a Toyota man since 1985, never any disappointment in the vehicles I have owned before now. I hope they can fix it or make it right soon. This is not what a Toyota Tacoma should be like. I have always bought them for their performance, durability, longevity, and trade in value. Toyota should be ashamed!!!