2025 Toyota Stout Digitally Unveils Its Ambitions to Become the HEV King of Compact Trucks

For example, the crucial North American markets – especially the US – still haven't seen Toyota crowned as the king because General Motors loves to interfere. As such, last year, GM sold a total of almost 2.6 million vehicles in America, while Toyota soared above 2.24 million, followed by Ford Motor Company at under 2 million.

The Japanese carmaker was brave to introduce a tidal wave of novelties, but some of them will only pay off their dividends – like the 2024 Tacoma mid-size pickup truck and the returning 2024 Land Cruiser or the upcoming 2025 Camry mid-size sedan plus the first-ever 2025 Crown Signia crossover SUV – only later this year. No worries, though, as reinforcements could also be on the way.

According to the rumor mill, Toyota will keep the barrage of novelties this year. Naturally, there's a lot of speculation not just about the models that get refreshed or new generations but also about potential revivals. One of the most notorious among the latter is focused on the Stout nameplate – a pickup truck model that first appeared in 1954 when these workhorses were still in their infancy.

Produced until 1989 in just three generations by Toyota, the sturdy little Stout was so beloved that it continued to survive until 2000 thanks to Gifu Auto Body Co., Ltd. Of course, the whispers have been running rampant about its impending return - along with a potential Subaru Baja sibling – ever since Hyundai Santa Cruz revived the US compact pickup truck sector and then Ford's Maverick swept in and snatched the laurels.

In fact, the latter is so successful now that its hybrid variant outsold the F-150 PowerBoost hybrid – and overall, Maverick deliveries were almost three times higher than Hyundai's unibody compact pickup truck in 2023! Thus, no one really wonders why the imaginative realm of digital car content creators also considers the hypothetical Toyota Stout return as one of its greatest subjects, right?

For example, the good folks over at the Q Cars channel on YouTube aim to daze and amaze the audience with a potential styling of their vision for the reborn Stout. Obviously, based on the Rivian R1T's template for a modern EV pickup truck, this hypothetical Toyota Stout comeback is not necessarily solely a zero-emissions solution – it would probably work a lot better as a hybrid compact pickup truck, just like the Ford Maverick.

Also, if you want a completely fresh design perspective – though still highly unofficial – we recommend checking out the second video embedded below from Car News Today as their resident pixel master makes the little pickup truck feel a lot more in line with current Toyota designs – albeit with a healthy dose of AI-assisted futurism in the styling.