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Everyday Driver Car Debate

TestDrive: Toyota Tundra TRD Pro

Everyday Driver Car Debate

Everyday Driver

Leisure, Hobbies, Automotive

4.92.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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0:00.0

So here we are in the third generation Tundra which we actually have driven before but we haven't driven this version.

0:07.0

This is the TRD Pro with the I Force Max Motor. It's to the max yo. I think truck owners kind of approach

0:18.5

this truck with skepticism. Mm okay because it's not a V8 Yeah, it's not the proper V8 well even prior tundra owners because this is the problem with the updated tundra

0:29.7

Anticoma is they left those naturally aspirated motors that are lauded and

0:34.3

were incredibly reliable and bomb-proof and they've gone to turbo motors and in this

0:37.9

case turbo hybrid. Turbo-Hybrid. Twin Turbo- V6 making 437 horsepower and 583 pound feet of torque, which is almost

0:49.8

600 pound feet of torque. Which is ton twin turbo and an electric motor yes

0:55.0

giving you nearly 600 pound feet of torque why do we need a V8 wire owners

1:01.1

afraid if it gives you more torque than any V8 in any truck really ever has

1:06.7

That's impressive and then sounds good to it does well some of that's piped in yet I don't care I would also say this then there is the argument It does sound good.

1:13.0

I would also say this.

1:14.0

Then there is the argument of well all this technology it's

1:17.0

turbo and it's hybrid.

1:18.0

I get that but also keep in mind that Toyota is the company

1:21.0

that's been doing hybrids the longest.

1:22.0

Yes they have. It's not like they just started doing hybrids and they thought to been doing hybrids the longest.

1:22.5

Yes, they have.

1:23.5

It's not like they just started doing hybrids and they thought to put one in the truck.

1:25.7

It's been 25 years of hybrid technology, so they have that background as well.

1:31.1

I can't argue. I cannot tell you with a straight face that this will be more

1:35.4

reliable than the V8 or even as reliable of the V8 because I simply don't know.

1:38.7

Yeah I don't know. I don't know.

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