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I did say it would be next week back in February.;) Eh, not quite @administrator . I mentioned previously that Toyota Motor filed this patent via their Rio de Janeiro attorney Clarke Modet on June 10, 2022, using these original 2021 CAD images of 920B for the Japan Patent Office filing of...

I'm refraining from commenting on this further, but I will note here that, the new Tacoma will be revealed in some 6 weeks time, once the stage for the Grand Highlander dims a bit. Over the past 4 years I've put in a lot of effort to keep people informed on this truck, despite my position. I...

I see, that makes more sense. Motor1 got lucky I guess.

This was actually first shown not even 2022, but 2021! In a capacity I wasn't supposed to be, I was saying too much about this truck in 2020-21 and someone at Toyota, started a drip feed of sorts to outgun me LOL. From the premature spy shots, more than 2 years before launch and this BEV...

I can see what happened here with the patent. Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha filed for design registration on this design, which from what I can recall, was said to me have been development 5 years under the 920B Program in mostly Toyota Technical Center Ann Arbor. CALTY worked on this truck's...

I really do like that, because both of these truly reflect real spy shots of that nature. October 5, 2021 January 10, 2023 You can see the prototype development progression from mechanical mule to integrated prototype vehicle. So odd though how these spy shots surfaced so close to that patent...

Wow, guessing that was around 1992? That's when the first of them really hit the streets, then again maybe pre-autumn 1993, when the car got revealed.

Although these are from over a week ago, something I didn't expect. it's clear the driver was angry, because they thought the encounter was with a spy photographer and not a casual observer. The decoy vehicles are not rentals, likely part of Toyota's fleet and deliberately done that way, to...

I knew that to be the case, but it is said to look like a Tundra and you cannot miss it, but it's more conservative looking though.

They deserve so much credit for this, because they missed a very rare opportunity to watermark and provide these to many media outlets ahead of KGP's shots. Can't believe I didn't notice them, as someone wondering why these remained hidden since November.

Shocking these were missed at all for a whole week, but this always seems to happen with early stuff, because unique prototype sightings fall by the wayside from ignorant discourse burying it (OP of that thread was being made to feel like their dead accurate prediction was incorrect by armchair...

It's definitely the production sheetmetal for once and this lines up perfectly, with how the 2022 Tundra first appeared on camera in late November 2020, 12-13 months before December 2021 launch. Nov 2020 XK70 Tundra Prototype Jan 2024 N400 Tacoma Prototype This is for Jan-Feb 2024. Seems...

I had logged in before I left for Australia to respond to you, but I lost my internet session on my notebook and it vanished.:mad: I've been discussing this for some years now, it's 100% real. In fact, I will point you here, to my old account on Lexus Enthusiast (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7). I very...

Not much traction on here, so yeah I didn't say it here, but I do know that they comb through multiple forums of discussions and plagiarize my commentary from other spaces. Not in this case, as some of the info is totally wrong. I haven't logged in much, in being uber overwhelmed unfortunately...

Nope, it will not be. None of the powertrains will be new, but new in the Tacoma nameplate and with different tunes in terms of the Dynamic Force powertrains, that will be half of the offerings for MY 2024.

I find it interesting how TFL finally came across this Hybrid Max information, right after I made it public over a week ago... To my knowledge, there will be 4 powertrains and Hybrid Max is the top offering. The GR V6 will still be offered, as will 2TR-FE through MY 2025. A25A-FXS will also be...

The camouflage probably does a good job, hiding any similarities, because this might be it.

These are probably not mules anymore, this is the real deal I mentioned first being built last month. Finally, showing up in public. Great work!

Just as I said before, but had forgotten to provide a specific date, new units begin assembly at the beginning of the month or in a few days, November 1st IIRC, wearing virtually aspect of the final design. Pilot production will begin in Mexico next summer (2023), ahead of Job 1 on December 1...

920B TACOMA PRE-PRODUCTION UNITS TO BEGIN ASSEMBLY AT TOYOTA PROTOTYPE PLANT HERE IN DETROIT METRO. My intel was clearly dead on from September and forgot to mention, that in a few days, the first US-built prototype units of the final Tacoma design, will be built here and enter testing rounds...