1995 Toyota T-100 Base for Sale in Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas

When Toyota?s T100 pickup was introduced to the automotive press a couple years back, the reaction was like a parody of that part in Wild West movies where the good guys sense that something?s wrong. You know the line: "It?s quiet. Maybe too quiet."

The script didn?t need much alteration for the T100: "It?s nice. Maybe too nice."

Which was an oblique way of saying that the T100, conceived to challenge the all-American realm of full-size pickups, was short on power.