First-Ever Lexus Pickup Truck Would Easily Render Toyota's Tundra Capstone Obsolete

Just think about it for a second and forget the fact that the Big Detroit automakers already tried once to conquer the $100k truck sector with the Cadillac Escalade EXT and the equally failed Lincoln Blackwood or Mark LT. The Ford F-Series has stuff like F-150 Limited, and Ram goes Longhorn with its own 1500 Limited. Still, General Motors trumps them all from a mile away – it offers the posher GMC Sierra over the Chevy Silverado series and can rock the market with the Sierra Denali Ultimate trims, including the HD derivatives!

Interestingly, Toyota – the world's largest carmaker last year – has also noticed the opportunity to make a buck or two above the usual MSRPs for its fresh XK70 third-generation Tundra that was released as a 2022 model year on the excellent body-on-frame TNGA-F platform. So, never mind Limited, Platinum, and even TRD Pro or 1794 Edition grades, Capstone is the luxurious way to go around town in a Tundra these days, if you have at least $77,645 for the i-Force Max model, that is. Anyway, now with the recent introduction of the mighty 2024 Lexus GX 550 and its high appreciation both among regular folks and critics, it was only a matter of time before someone tried to combine the Tundra with the third GX and come up with a Lexus pickup truck.

Well, the good folks over at the AutoYa info channel on YouTube have recently imagined the CGI looks of an unannounced Lexus truck based on the Tundra, and it also comes with lots of GX traits both outside and inside the cabin. Albeit only hypothetically, remember that – as neither Lexus nor Toyota said anything about combining the TNGA-F-based DNA of the two models for a posher model set above the 2023 Toyota Tundra Capstone flagship trim. However, this wishful-thinking model has a bit of swagger on its side, as the host imagined it with "more comfortable suspension and transmission" setups, additional soundproofing, and more expensive materials throughout the interior.

Interestingly, even if Lexus decided this should exist, they would have a significant conundrum regarding the powertrain of choice as the all-new GX 550 uses the 3.4-liter V35A-FTS twin-turbo V6 with 349 horsepower, the same engine set under the hood of the base Tundra. But the latter also has a mighty hybrid, the i-Force Max, complete with a combined 437 horsepower – so a Lexus pickup truck would obviously need to trump that in order to justify its higher price tag, right?