toyota tundra


Cut It Out: Toyota's recalled pedal modification remedy detailed step-by-step

Late last month, Toyota announced that it would begin its biggest recall action ever, summoning 3.8 million cars and trucks back to its dealers to combat "pedal entrapment" by cutting down the accelerator pedals of customer cars to avoid them getting hung-up on floormats, resulting in "unintended acceleration." Although Toyota plans to eventually substitute redesigned units for the shaved pedals (beginning in April), for the moment, it's shaved pedals or nothing. Up until now, we didn't know what went into the modification process or how ... Read more →

REPORT: Toyota to add 850 more jobs in San Antonio to build more pickups Dan Roth

NUMMI's loss will be San Antonio's gain. Toyota is adding a second shift at its truck plant and looking to hire 850 workers for the production increase, and since Toyota's suppliers are located ...

BREAKING: Toyota to recall 3.8M vehicles to reshape and replace pedals Chris Paukert

Toyota has announced that it will recall some 3.8 million cars and trucks to reshape and/or replace their accelerator pedals. The action is the result of fears that loose floormats may cause the ...

Toyota extends Tundra rust recall to include 2000-03 models, totalling 110,000 trucks Damon Lavrinc

If you've been following the Toyota Tundra rust saga, you're aware that NHSTA recently requested data from Toyota about the purported frame corrosion affecting 2000 and 2001 models. Today, Toyota ...

REPORT: Toyota forced to submit data on Tundra frame rust to NHTSA Jonathon Ramsey

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) began a preliminary evaluation last month of rusting Tundra frames from the 2000 and 2001 model years. Around 200 complaints had been ...

SEMA 2009: Toyota Tundra Hot Rod kinda cool misses the bullseye 1 month ago on Autoblog

Yeah... Toyota is painting this one as a what-would-happen if Tundras existed back during the hot rodding heyday of the 1950s. We'll let you draw your own conclusions about that. However, we would like to take this opportunity to point out that the grill would have been chrome, not matte. And ...

Toyota plans to trim trucks, focus on hybrids, improve quality 1 month ago on Autoblog

Stick with what you know. That seems to be Toyota's new mantra going forward, as the Japanese automaker has reportedly diverted its attention away from large trucks like the largely unsuccessful and slow-selling Tundra pickup and back on hybrid vehicles – possibly all wearing the Prius ...

VIDEO: Toyota Dealer Training: 2007 Tundra 3 months ago on Autoblog

Over the past couple of weeks, we've shown you the did-not-age-well 1989 Ford dealer training videos, and the completely laughable + hopeless late-Eighties Chevrolet dealer training clips. Interestingly, in the waning years of Ronald Reagan's America, the domestics weren't doing so bad. The Big ...

REPORT: Toyota Tundra finally earns its fifth star... but how? 4 months ago on Autoblog

When Toyota crashed the domestic automakers' pickup party with the arrival of the 2007 Tundra, the truck-buying public took notice. Bad news struck the Tundra from the start, though, as heavy rebates were needed to move the new truck, and numerous quality issues were reported. Toyota has since ...

Numbers Don't Lie: Silverado beats out F-150 as America's best-selling light-duty pickup 5 months ago on Autoblog

Quick – What's the best-selling light-duty pickup truck in America? Did you say the Ford F-150? Not so fast. According to the J.D. Power Information Network (via our friends at PickupTrucks.com), General Motors sold more Chevy Silverado 1500 pickups (119,959 units) in June that Ford sold ...

VIDEO: Toyota dealer employees caught snooping through customer vehicle, watching porn 5 months ago on Autoblog

Have you ever had the feeling that the service guy at your local dealership is rummaging through your things? Perhaps even a few quarters are missing. A guy named Jason knows all too well about dealership employees going through his stuff – on two different occasions, Jason noticed that ...

Reports of aggressively rusting Toyota pickup frames piling up 7 months ago on Autoblog

Some Toyota Tundra owners are reportedly experiencing inordinately heavy amounts of premature rust, and they want the Japanese automaker to take action to address the problem. WCVB TV in Boston has been investigating the Toyota rust situation for about a year, and they're reporting that at least ...

VIDEO: Mike Rowe takes on dirty job of comparing full-size pickups 11 months ago on Autoblog

In today's world, you'd imagine that any new full-size pickup truck can handle the daily grind with ease. And for the most part, you'd be right. But when the time comes for heavy hauling, not all trucks are created equally. Each manufacturer can probably come up with scenarios where its ...

Performance Test: 2008 Toyota Tundra TRD 11 months ago on Autoblog

We don't do much performance testing of the vehicles we review here at Autoblog, partly because we don't have the resources and also because our seat-of-the-pants-meter usually gives us the pertinent information we need about how a car (or truck, in this case) performs. There are times, however, ...

Toyota will debut Tundra Work Truck Package in San Diego 1 year ago on Autoblog

One glaring omission in the range of Tundra trim levels is a stripper model suitable for duty as a basic work truck. Toyota will change all that at this year's San Diego Auto Show (Dec. 31, 2008 to Jan. 4, 2009) when the 2010 Toyota Tundra Work Truck Package debuts. Like any good work truck, a ...

SEMA 2008: Toyota's truck trio is 3x cooler than modded Venzas 1 year ago on Autoblog

Toyota's Venza trio didn't stir our souls, but a few of its customized trucks had us itching for some Italian iron and a remake of the first Back to the Future flick. First up is the Toyota Tundra/Ducati Transporter that makes trips to the track a breeze with a motorized loading ramp, an ...

Toyota to Tundra factory workers: Get thee to a park! 1 year ago on Autoblog

As reported recently, even though Toyota halted Tundra production for a while, the company pledged not to lay off its workers. At a total cost of potentially $1 billion to the company, Toyota instead placed the employees in retraining and civic works programs during a Kaizen and Development Period. ...

Toyota considering exporting big trucks 1 year ago on Autoblog

Click above for a high-res gallery of the Toyota Tundra. The Toyota Tundra is the most competent pickup Toyota has ever produced, but the two-year-old truck has been hit hard by the harsh reality of the US auto slump. Gas prices and a sluggish housing industry have conspired to put a wet blanket on ...

Prius production heading to Mississippi, Tundra to Texas 1 year ago on Autoblog

Toyota's got some changes and rearranges underway with its North American facilities to better serve the demands of the market. The biggest news is that Prius production will be coming Stateside, which will help unkink the supply pipeline, if not also lower costs. A new facility in Blue Springs, ...

Toyota to offer Ironman packages for Tundra, Tacoma and FJ Cruiser 1 year ago on Autoblog

Click above for hi-res gallery of the Ironman edition Toyota Tundra Back in April we brought you an initial report of the upcoming "Ironman" edition Toyota Tundra, and full details have now made their way into cyberspace. The package will be comprised of a number of dealer-installed accessories and ...

Toyota lays off 200 temp workers at Tundra plant 1 year ago on Autoblog

Click above for a high-res gallery of the Toyota Tundra The full-size pickup truck woes continue to worsen, leaving even mighty Toyota little choice but to slow production of its Tundra model. In fact, Toyota's brand new plant in San Antonio that was built just for the Tundra will be shutting down ...

Toyota developing clean-diesel V8 for Tundra/Sequoia 1 year ago on Autoblog

Click above for high-res gallery of the Diesel Dually Tundra Toyota has earned its reputation for producing fuel efficient vehicles, but one dent in the Japanese automaker's armor has been the gas-guzzling Tundra and Sequoia. To help rectify the situation, Toyota Engineers have been working hard on ...

Trouble at the top? Toyota vehicles sitting longer on dealer lots 1 year ago on Autoblog

Although Toyota has recently claimed the title of the World's Largest Automaker in terms of global sales, the Japanese-giant is finding out that life at the top isn't all it's cracked-up to be. While the Camry, Corolla, Yaris and Prius sedans are reportedly brisk movers, the same thing cannot be ...

Toyota readying Ivan "Ironman" Stewart Signature Series Tundra 1 year ago on Autoblog

Click either image to enlarge Toyota and Baja racing have become synonomous thanks to one man, Ivan "Ironman" Stewart, who has won the Baja 500 a record 17 times in Toyota's trucks. Despite Ford's obvious interest in wrestling away some of the dune jumping glory with its upcoming F-150 "Raptor", ...

Supercharged TRD Tundra will make 504 horsepower 1 year ago on Autoblog

High horsepower trucks have come and gone. The SVT Lightning and Ram SRT10 are but two examples, but we miss the GMC Syclone something fierce, as well. Toyota is readying its TRD supercharger for the Tundra, which should help sate those who hunger for extra horsepower in their truck. An employee of ...

Toyota may move all Tundra production to Texas 1 year ago on Autoblog

Click above for high-res gallery of the 2007 Toyota Tundra Limited As of today, production of the Tundra full-size pickup is split between Toyota's facility in Princeton, Indiana, and the automaker's brand new San Antonio plant in Texas. According to a Wall Street Journal report, Toyota is ...

Toyota slowing production of Tundra, Sequoia 1 year ago on Autoblog

In a rare move for Toyota, the auto company will be slowing production of the Tundra pickup and the Sequoia SUV due to lagging sales. Last year, Toyota sold 196,555 Tundra's, which was just a bit shy of their stated goal of 200,000. Still, it was enough to make the Tundra the fourth-best-selling ...

Yee-haw! Toyota Tundra named TOTY by... farmers? 1 year ago on Autoblog

Click above to view more high-res shots of the Toyota Tundra Congrats to the Toyota Tundra. It has just been named "Truck of the Year" by Farm Industry News, a leading product and technology magazine for "high-income, Midwestern farmers" (their words, not ours). Though an accolade from FIM ...

Toyota Tundra tangles with domestics in Texas, grabs major marketshare 1 year ago on Autoblog

There's the pickup truck market in the U.S. as a whole, and then there's the pickup truck market in Texas where one in seven of all trucks in this country is sold. Aside from its gluttonous appetite for full-size trucks, Texas is also a symbolic battleground where domestic automakers have long been ...

2007: The year in truck sales 1 year ago on Autoblog

While the big news story surrounding 2007 sales is that Toyota passed Ford as the No. 2 best-selling automaker in the U.S. last year, there were plenty of interesting battles happening between individual models, as well. The truck segment, though shrinking, is still the most competitive in the U.S. ...

Toyota Tundra named Motor Trend 2008 Truck of the Year 2 years ago on Autoblog

click image for more pics from our own review of the 2007 Toyota Tundra var digg_url = 'http://digg.com/autos/Toyota_Tundra_named_Motor_Trend_s_2008_Truck_of_the_Year'; Motor Trend awarded its 2008 Truck of the Year award, the last of its three yearly awards, to the Toyota Tundra today. New for ...

Aw Snap! Toyota recalling 15,600 Tundras for transmission shaft problems 2 years ago on Autoblog

The never-ending saga of Toyota's struggle to gain acceptance for its Tundra pickup in the U.S. market was made more difficult today with a new recall affecting some 15,600 trucks. Apparently the rear propeller shaft on some four-wheel-drive Tundras could separate at a joint because Toyota's ...

Toyota needs big December to reach 200k Tundra sales 2 years ago on Autoblog

Toyota is selling a heap more Tundra trucks this year than it did last year. It's simply not selling enough -- maybe -- to reach its goal of selling 200,000 units this year, the first year the all-new bigger and badder Tundra has been on sale. As of the end of November, the big T had rolled 177,336 ...

SEMA 2007 VIDEO: Toyota Tundra Diesel Dually 2 years ago on Autoblog

When Toyota launched the 2007 Tundra, the automotive juggernaut proclaimed that it finally had a legitimate contender vs. the F-150, Silverado and Ram. What Toyota didn't have, however, was a full-size offering to compete with the domestic heavy-duty trucks. Just for kicks, Toyota built a ...

SEMA 2007: Toyota Tundra Dually Diesel 2 years ago on Autoblog

click above image to view more pics of the Toyota Tundra Diesel Dually var digg_url = 'http://www.autoblog.com/2007/10/30/sema-2007-toyota-tundra-dually-diesel/'; With a strong OEM presence at SEMA, automakers are forced to bring The Badass to the masses. Toyota has apparently been overrun with ...

Toyota responds to tailgate issue 2 years ago on Autoblog

A couple of days ago we told you about two new issues with the Toyota Tundra that were drawing the ire of some owners. The first is the "rumble strip" transmission problem, for which Toyota has promised to replace the torque converter box of any affected truck. The other issue involved tailgates ...

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Chris, Editor Paukert, and Dan send the Podcast off for the Christmas holiday in proper fashion

 
 

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