Photo: Joao Kleber Amaral for autoevolution
Introduced as a 2000 model, the original Tundra was available with a regular cab. This configuration soldiered on for the second gen, but as expected, Toyota decided to pull the plug in 2014 due to abysmal sales.
Looking at the bigger picture, the Japanese truck was never a huge seller in comparison to the half-ton pickups of the Big Three in Detroit. Even they have a tremendously hard time moving single-cabbed workhorses because approximately 85 percent of U.S. truck sales consist of crew cabs. In Canada, for example, regular cabs are down to one percent of the market.
It’s a ridiculous decline considering that half-ton pickups were offered exclusively with a single cab a few decades ago. To whom it may concern, Chrysler introduced the first extended cab in 1973 in the guise of the Dodge D100 Club Cab. As for the first series-production crew cab in the United States, that pickup would be the 1957 International Harvester Travelette.
Joao Kleber Amaral is the gentleman responsible for the third-gen Tundra rendering before your eyes, a “what if” that would’ve happened if there was demand for single cabs. Unfortunately for us, there simply isn’t right now and the Big Three companies already reign supreme over this segment.
Be that as it may, let’s imagine Toyota has made a case for the Tundra Regular Cab. The production truck would be offered exclusively as the SR, hence the steelies of the rendered pickup, along with the base variant of the force-fed V6 that’s marketed under the i-Force handle with 3.5 liters of displacement. Actually, a 3.4-liter mill, this engine produces 348 horsepower and 405 pound-feet (549 Nm) from 2,000 rpm as standard.
Almost as torquey as the 5.7-liter HEMI of the Ram 1500 and the 5.0-liter Coyote in the Ford F-150, the V35A-FTS is mated to a ten-speed automatic transmission shared with the Land Cruiser and Lexus LX.
It’s a ridiculous decline considering that half-ton pickups were offered exclusively with a single cab a few decades ago. To whom it may concern, Chrysler introduced the first extended cab in 1973 in the guise of the Dodge D100 Club Cab. As for the first series-production crew cab in the United States, that pickup would be the 1957 International Harvester Travelette.
Joao Kleber Amaral is the gentleman responsible for the third-gen Tundra rendering before your eyes, a “what if” that would’ve happened if there was demand for single cabs. Unfortunately for us, there simply isn’t right now and the Big Three companies already reign supreme over this segment.
Be that as it may, let’s imagine Toyota has made a case for the Tundra Regular Cab. The production truck would be offered exclusively as the SR, hence the steelies of the rendered pickup, along with the base variant of the force-fed V6 that’s marketed under the i-Force handle with 3.5 liters of displacement. Actually, a 3.4-liter mill, this engine produces 348 horsepower and 405 pound-feet (549 Nm) from 2,000 rpm as standard.
Almost as torquey as the 5.7-liter HEMI of the Ram 1500 and the 5.0-liter Coyote in the Ford F-150, the V35A-FTS is mated to a ten-speed automatic transmission shared with the Land Cruiser and Lexus LX.
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