In developing a new-generation large tundra pickup truck, Toyota Motor took an unexpected step — it studied the condition of the old tundra of the previous extra-high mileage model, Mike Swiers, chief engineer of Toyota North America, told reporters about this .
In 2016, while working on the new tundra, Toyota specialists received two copies of 2007 pickup trucks with a mileage of 1.6 million km each. These cars have covered so many miles in conditions of really heavy use as they were from private owners. Swiers mentioned the history of one of the monsters – it belonged to the American Victor Sheppard. Toyota exchanged a completely new Tundra of the same generation for it, and then disassembled and studied the car in detail in its own scientific and technical center.
New generation Toyota Tundra
To the surprise of the Toyota engineers themselves, the only part that turned out to be defective on the older Tundra was the driver’s side sun visor holder. Even the frame and the foam of the driver’s seat were still usable. However, the cargo platform turned out to be in poor condition – in some places it was rusted through. That is why it was decided with the new generation of the machine to make the panels from composites.
Based on the results of the study of more than a million pickups, the new Toyota Tundra had an additional reinforced cargo platform, increased the support area on the frame, applied a timing chain that was a quarter larger in cross-section, and added extra storage spaces. for manual equipment in the cab.
Recall that the new Toyota Tundra was introduced in September 2021. The machine is built on a new frame with welded tubular profiles, pressed from high-quality steel. All suspensions are spring, front – independent, rear – dependent. The chassis is called Toyota F1, the modification is also used on the Land Cruiser 300.
The new generation Tundra is equipped exclusively with V6 turbo engines. The basic version has a 3.5-liter engine with a double supercharger, power – 389 hp, torque – 649 Nm. The more expensive option is equipped with the i-Force hybrid system, in which the internal combustion engine is assisted by an electric motor, the total power of the installation is 437 hp, the torque is 790 Nm. Both engines are combined with a 10-speed hydromechanical “automatic”. The drive of the car is either rear or full.
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