Well, in this one they accelerated once and drove down a mostly straight road for a few minutes while distracted by their conversation. Also, it's a different truck. Roman also said he thought that the 400+ HP Ranger Raptor felt slow because they've been spoiled by EV acceleration.
To be clear that was not my video, but he did mention that he was driving a pre production truck so the equipment seen in the video may not be the final build.
I will add that Toyota has built 8 distinct specs of these trucks which can be optioned out with various packages, from 2WD work truck to top trim halos with luxury features and tech that would have only come in luxury cars a few years ago. If buyers do not want all the bells and whistles, they...
Everyone seems to be focused on their disappointment in the pricing so it's good to remember that these are going to be phenomenal trucks and the reviews continue to be overwhelmingly positive.
I'm surprised that my dealer in a city with a population of 70k people has 12 deposits down on Trailhunters a day after they went live on the configurator but there are still dealers without any. I expect that more orders will start to come in as the general population of people who are not...
I reached out to one of the dealers I have a Trailhunter deposit with (that was initially quoting a $5k markup last Spring) today to let him know I had found another dealer that was not charging a markup. He responded with some interesting info: This dealer is no longer charging markups (I did...
It "takes" it, sure, as in it will run on it, but the engine is designed to benefit from running premium and the manual recommends 91+ to get full performance. I'm not a Ford guy so I'm not familiar with all of their offerings but I've seen Ford's turbo engines actually list 2 sets of power...
Both of those trucks have lower MPG and the RR takes premium. PRO is likely to hold its value better (maybe RR will do OK with resale if the market isn't flooded with them).
I've looked at all of them, full sizes, SUVs, with an open mind. At the end of the day if the PRO is what drew you in...
Interestingly, the Sport Bar and Bed Scene Lighting are listed as available add-ons for Trailhunter when they were supposed to come standard. Hopefully that's an oversight and not another $2000 on top of the MSRP.
They have been advertising those seats left and right and all of the production trucks they drove at the press event had them. Unless there was some major safety issue discovered I find this hard to believe.
In the Truck King video they explained that Toyota Canada sets their pricing independently of Toyota US and that they must have just decided to treat Trailhunter as the top trim and priced it accordingly.
Granted the drive reviews so far are mostly short off-road courses, but it seems like the...
And in the hybrid manual the Trailhunter has the highest listed payload of all the hybrids at 1215/1245 long bed, yet here they're showing a range over 1700 lbs ?
You are missing that an extra 2 MPG is not going to get most truck buyers to pay the premium for a hybrid in the same way that an extra 148 pound feet of torque is. Toyota wants to sell trucks. They have many other offerings for people who want fuel efficiency. The extra torque and the electric...
The EPA estimate for the non hybrid is 23 highway/19 city, so there is a small improvement on the highway for the hybrid. However, one of the engineers claimed that the hybrid Off-Road would be shipping with the air dam which the non-hybrid does not come with. So, that could be the source of...