Monday, February 3, 2014

R-Toyota's Pickup Truck lineup

Toyota produces many reliable vehicles but the two that stand out is its lineup of pickups. Toyota has two lineups: The light duty Tacoma and the heavy duty Tundra. The Toyota Tacoma didn’t get its name until 1995/1996 when the Seventh generation of this pickup debut. It got this name because Toyota started to sell more of these trucks in the U.S. and wanted to give it an English name. The seventh generation Tacomas came with two different engines. The two wheel drive trucks came with a 2.4 liter gas engine and the four wheel drive trucks came with a 2.7 liter gas engine. Both the four wheel drive and the four wheel drive trucks also came with a v6 3.4 liter option. The current eighth generation still has the 2.7 liter engine but their new v6 engines were upped to 4.0 liters. Toyota still makes changes to the Tacoma so it can keep competing in the truck market. The Tacoma’s heavy duty cousin, the Tundra is also a competitor on the market. The Tundra was first produced in 1999. There are more Tundras sold than the GMC Sierra 1500, but is still behind the Ford F-150. It shares the v6 3.4 liter engine with the Tacoma. The Tundra has a choice of a 4.7 liter v8 liter, and a 5.7 liter v8. There is also a special variant of the truck from the Toyota Racing Development (TRD). What makes these engines different is that they are supercharged. What this means is that it gives the engine more power. There are two forms of these engines, a v6 and a v8 engine. Toyota is planning on producing two different types of the Toyota Tundra, a half ton version (similar to the Ford F-150, Chevy/GM 1500 and the Dodge Ram 1500) and an actual heavy duty ¾ ton version (similar to the F-250, Chevy/GM 2500 and the Dodge Ram 2500). Toyota is planning on producing a diesel version of the Tundra that they would include in their ¾ ton trucks. Toyota trucks are tough and reliable. They hold their value and can compete with any of the U.S. produced trucks.

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