The Japanese automaker Toyota is like a relentless, unforgiven (with its competitors) tidal wave when it comes to new model introductions, concept cars, and special edition series.
It announced one novelty after another the entire year. Still, it seems the fall season was more ripe than ever – the inaugural Japan Mobility Show (formerly known as the Tokyo Motor Show) was brimming with EV concepts. There was the 2023 SEMA Show in Las Vegas with cool specialty builds and the highly-desirable 2024 Tacoma X-Runner concept featuring a street/sports truck vibe and a 421-hp V6 swap, and now came the Los Angeles Auto Show to top everything up.
Over in California, Toyota announced the 2025 Camry's ninth generation, complete with exclusive hybrid power and available AWD, plus the first-ever Crown Signia crossover SUV. Of course, that doesn't mean the company will take a vacation and stop revealing new stuff until next year. And even if it did, the imaginative realm of digital car content creators could easily step in and take charge.
Some believe that Toyota should continue along the line of double introductions and propose that we should prepare for the arrival of the all-new 4Runner plus the fabled revival of the MR2 mid-engine sports car. If that is not enough, no worries, as TheAutoReport channel on YouTube is self-described as a "one-stop destination for the latest updates and insights into the dynamic world of (CGI) cars!"
As such, their resident pixel master just cooked up the unofficial reveal of the refreshed 2025 Toyota Tundra. The XK70 third generation was introduced during the summer of 2021 as a member of the TNGA-F body-on-frame modular platform and is powered by two flavors of the 3.4-liter V35A-FTS twin-turbocharged V6 packing 389 hp or 437 hp in i-Force Max hybrid guise.
However, the parallel universes of vehicular CGI believe that for the 2025 model year, it's time for a thorough refresh – one that would help the company fight off the upgraded 2024 Ford F-150 and also the newly announced 2025 Ram 1500 Hurricane series. As such, here is an unofficial design proposal – all dressed in black with ritzy gold tones and featuring a variety of front fascia styles to fight the F-Series' new trim-dependent design structure directly.
As for the powertrain, Toyota probably doesn't need to make significant changes – they just introduced at the SEMA Show the upgrade pack that makes the 3.4-liter feistier with 421 or 469 hp, and they could just make that standard across the board, starting with the 2025 model year. The competition is certainly not idle, so that will be an uphill battle – and it remains to be seen how fast the company will introduce a facelift to the Tundra series. Until then, take all these renderings with a pinch of salt, as nothing is official yet.
Aurel has aimed high all his life (literally, at 16 he was flying gliders all by himself) so in 2006 he switched careers and got hired as a writer at his favorite magazine. Since then, his work has been published both by print and online outlets, most recently right here, on autoevolution. Full profile
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