I'm at the SEMA show in Vegas, and was looking through the truck section and in the Toyota secdtion they had a new Tundra extra cab Dually with I believe 19" big rig type wheels, and a 8.0L inline six turbo diesel. I'm sure its a prototype, but not much else. I will try to download photos when I get home.

 

Wow - would love to see that engine.

Toyota used to make a dually 1 ton flatbed small truck a few decades ago. It never caught on.

 

Is this it?

 

Looks like they stole the rear fenders from an SSR.

 

Gawd, look at that little dinky bed! Kinda like the Dodge Mega Cab Dually...the bed and rear fenders kinda look like an afterthought! Overall, it's pretty ugly. It it makes it to market like that, it probably won't catch on again! Yikes!

 

There jokin right . Who would by that any takers ,
Nick

 

That's what they said about the Ridgeline......

 

Thats what every one said in 1957 about Toyota. Be careful who you laugh at!
I have thought for years that if the foriegns got into the superduty type market, the domestics were going to take a huge hit!

 

Sorry all I can do is , thats one truck I won't buy it just doesnt look right .

 

Dodge is going to a 6 door 1 ton truck.

There was a rumor for a little bit that Toyota was going to go with a V10 Diesel.

Nissan is aiming for the market as well. There's already been talks between Nissan NA and International.

 

If Toyota goes with a CAT motor... they have one taker right here

 

It's more than talk.

http://www.autoblog.com/2007/06/15/n...titan-in-2009/

http://www.pickuptruck.com/html/news...dieselago.html

 

AAAHHH looks like toyota made a baby truck. To bad he wont be able to keep up with the big kids.

 

Cat has stated very vehimently before that they will not get into the light pick-up market. dang it!

 

I agree, careful what you scoff at. If we aren't careful, us domestic truck owners might be the pony express rider laughing at the guys building the railroad.

Toyota is now the world's largest automaker, and for good reason - they innovate. They design new, inventive technology that many of the domestic automakers haven't bothered with because they don't have any competition to make them (ie lack of airbags/HID lighting). If toyota comes out with a well thought out diesel dually, I think it will really shake up the fullsize truck market - in the long run, probably a good thing for better quality trucks all around.

Please understand, I love my excurison, but my family has a bunch of toyotas too, and I can honestly say they are some pretty nice cars also.

As far as a long bed, who needs a big bed when you can just tow a big trailer

Just my $.02

Isaac