4th Gen Tacoma (2024+)

Guys on the gladiator page are saying baby Tundra. Slightly maybe but I see more Tacoma then Tundra in the look

 

Sooo...new engine, exact same HP that the current Pentastar V6 has and almost 100 less HP than the 5.7.....Exciting!!!!

 

Looks great!

 

For what it’s worth, I talked with a regional sales rep at an ag expo in Georgia last October and he said Toyota is planning to take most of its fleet, including trucks, full electric in the next 3 to 5 years. Just passing along what he said, he wouldn’t give more detail than they were moving away from conventional gas. Didn’t make sense market wise to me but he was adamant.

 

Sounds like nonsense, unless his meaning of electric is Hybrid.

 

It's not about power for me, it's about reliability and long term operating cost of repair/maintenance. And right now, I'd never thought I'd see the day I'd be looking at a Honda pilot for a truck lmao!

 

That doesn’t sound correct at all. Akio Toyoda is very adamant on keeping the ICE vehicles around and is against the push for fully electric vehicles.

 

Toyota's December 2021 reveal




Brazil 2023

 

I kind of like it. Still happy with my decision to not wait and bought a 2022 - 2,300 miles and counting.

 

I wonder do the vents under the headlight and in the front wheel arch do anything or just for looks? Are they just trim pieces on the Tundra or are they real grill vents?

If this is accurate the look is unmistakably Tacoma, and I got my wish that it didn't have a Tundra face. Now fingers crossed the interior doesn't adopt the laptop-screen-glued-to-the-dash Tundra design as well

 

This thing barely looks any different than a third gen. A couple different creases in the body panels and a little more angled corners. Is this really a new generation?

 

I think it's a great evolution in the design. It's still "Tacoma".

I see the headlight trim plate grew. I can see Meso Customs putting out color-matched trims and possibly lighting options!

The rear bumper is also interesting. A diagonal chop instead of the bumper extending. Should get some interesting after-market bumper designs for that.

I could be wrong, but it looks like TSS moved down lower?

 

I think the front bumper is an improvement, but the minimal external changes certainly won't render the 3rd gen obsolete, thats for sure.

 

you got that right, that so sucks!

 

Looks good to me. I think they brought enough Tundra styling cues over for a good family resemblance but the overall look still says "Tacoma" to me and not just "baby Tundra."

 

Looks pretty good to me.

 

Whatever the new Tacoma looks like, the big changes will be in the power train. Whether that's good or bad... well, that's what this whole thread is debating.

 

Still waiting on my 2023 to come in. Right now I'm thinking I'll keep it 8-10yrs and trade it for a 5th gen lol.

 

Well, it seems that everything I have mentioned the past few years is holding through and that feels great, since I really wanted to keep owners as informed as possible. Toyota indeed revealed this vehicle in December 2021 and thankfully some sources confirmed that for me back then. Part of me still had my own skepticism occasionally, which erred on the side of caution and questioned as to why Toyota would reveal this 99.9% identical to the production vehicle?

That EV truck show was indeed what I expected it to be upon first sight (despite a few Toyota insiders on the stupid side claiming it didn't match). None other than an excuse to tease incoming ICE product, under the veil of something else and without being too official about it. The Tacoma is not getting a BEV anytime soon, which I have gotten confirmation of that today from my leading insider. He is the guy that let me know back in December 2021, this was the new Tacoma.

Go to 14:32 (This was what sold me on this just not being a one-off truck, per that digital driving footage.)

I had mentioned Toyota surmised that all of their competition had already been designed and thus, no risk to them to show the new vehicle that early. But, I don't think anyone has this before in this fashion. You either have an auto show concept of sorts that far out or you keep that withheld from public knowledge, until several months out. Our Ranger's final design was exposed some 3.5 years before it first went on sale in 2022 and in terms of USA, it was 4.5 years. Toyota is brave to have felt confident enough to leak it, risking Chinese copycats beating them to market.

The truth is, the wheel was not reinvented here. I mentioned as well that, all TNGA vehicles going back to 2017 with the current Camry, have been extremely evolutionary and the sole exception to that rule was the 2022 Tundra and 2023 Sequoia, plus some new nameplates. Toyota deviated from the design language of the outgoing Tundra and chose to take the current Tacoma, then somewhat base the Tundra on both that and the 4Runner. Grew the proportions and butched it up a bit more to give it a more aggressive appearance. The Sequoia of course followed, because it's a Tundra SUV.


Come Tacoma design work under 920B at CALTY circa 2020, the decision to evolve the Tacoma and not choose a revolutionary exterior proposal won out, because it allowed for a family look without alienating existing buyers, of a vehicle selling so much at that point, you would be crazy to change too much.



TL;DR the Tundra and Tacoma, were designed to be an evolution of the current 3rd generation truck which is a record seller.

The truck is all new, as nothing outside of some powertrains is carryover. So please folks, careful with the "facelift" speculation. It is not a refresh/facelift, unlike the P703N Ranger, Colorado, Canyon, and worst of all, the Frontier.

Those are redos of their existing frame basis, while this debuts on the TNGA-F architecture. The first ground up redesign since October of 2004.





Just a careful evolution over the years, while also still borrowing from an old tyme favorite, something I noted about the headlights in a January 2022 post here. All generations seem to borrow this trapezoidal headlight shape. It's a design signature, made more obvious this time around.






(Typically I don't do this, but several months ago this YT channel did these renderings.) A lot of Indians work on the 920B program both here and out of India, so I consider it likely that the additional info came from one of them to be so close.