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The Truck Show Podcast

Ep. 246 - Toyo Open Country R/T Trail and Toyo Trailpass

The Truck Show Podcast

Truck Famous, LLC.

Entrepreneurship, Leisure, Business, Automotive

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2022

⏱️ 131 minutes

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Summary

The guys head to the Southern California mountains with Toyo Tires to experience the all-new Toyo Open Country R/T Trail tire on- and off-road, before heading to Toyo's Trailpass event and interviewing a few of our favorite people (Scott Birdsall, we are talking to you) and a few brands you need to know about.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is going to be an epic truck show podcast episode. It's lightning at

0:03.8

Holman in beautiful Big Bear California in a firecracker red Jeep 392. Say

0:10.9

what? Yes so Holman is the owner while the temporary owner of a long-term

0:17.1

loner 392 and it's got the brand new Toyota RT Trail tires on which this

0:24.0

morning we were schooled about from the Toyota staff and this episode is going to

0:29.0

be about bringing you all the action from the mountains and trying our best to

0:33.4

abuse these brand new RT trails. Currently we're behind a long

0:37.2

procession of amazing trail ready rigs so we got some pretty cool trucks in

0:42.1

this group so in front of us is Tacoma a JT a Ranger a Nissan Frontier looks

0:48.6

like another couple jeeps up there. Is that a Ranger? So it's a really good

0:53.8

mix. Yeah this is a good mix we'll get a chance to talk to these guys and what

0:56.5

they think about the new tire on the trail. I will tell you in the 392 coming up

1:00.3

and anybody who has come up to Big Bear before knows how twisty the highway up

1:04.7

is and I was incredibly impressed with the road holding and I was pushing the

1:10.2

392 through all the corners. Any squealing? No squealing whatsoever the tires

1:14.2

really stuck not a lot of you know tread squirm or sidewall squirm everything

1:18.7

just felt amazingly well. And by squirm you're talking about when you give

1:22.3

some input and it doesn't react right away. It's like the latency between your

1:25.8

steering input and what the vehicle actually does and so everything with

1:28.9

tires is a compromise and you know you want a squishy sidewall for ride

1:33.2

comfort and you know for the the tire to meld to the terrain on the trail but

1:41.2

at the same time you want to have a stiff sidewall to support a load and and to

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