2027 Toyota Tundra Changes Deliver the Upgrades Owners Have Been Waiting For

[testerdahl]

The 2027 Toyota Tundra changes include updated styling, a new Trailhunter package, a standard 14-inch multimedia screen, a built-in drive recorder, Toyota Safety Sense 4.0 and, perhaps most importantly, an available 2.4-kW inverter for i-FORCE MAX trucks. Yes, Toyota appears to have been listening. This is more than a routine collection of new colors and minor trim adjustments. Toyota has addressed several of the most requested Tundra improvements, particularly inside the cabin and in the bed. The result should be a more functional truck with better technology, greater trail capability and meaningful improvements for owners who use their Tundra for work, […] (read full article...)

 

[Milly Goat]

Sorry bro. What people want is to be able to believe in the engine. Not the case for several years now and I am afraid to tell you this but you sound like a bit of a shill for Toyota. Moreso, recently Toyota lowered the reliablitly bar even further when they came out and said that even if metal shavings are found in the oil filter, they won't replace the engine unless it has met their "use criteria" (ie been driven while towing trailers, etc.). That is pretty darn weak. People are still pulling oil filters off of 2026 models and finding filings in the oil filters! Toyota also refused to cover engine replacement for the hybrid models because of an NSHTA loophole. Great confidence builder Toyota. If no major changes have been made (aside from the main bearing fix) to the crappy V6 twin turbo, which is well known for grinding itself to metal filings, then I won't buy it and I will continue to post bad things about the Tundra online. Change the engine arrangement and also come back with a V8. Come on Toyota. Pull your head out of the sand. You have had 6 years of humiliation on the full-size truck market. Take a lesson from Ford's Coyote motor. Sheesh!!

 

[Hilux]

Another yawn inducing mediocre snooze fest Toyota truck, from the kings of mediocrity, it sells simply because it has Toyota on the tailgate.

On another note, wasn't Ram saying 40% of buyers wouldn't even consider a truck without a v8 a short time ago, Toyota must not care gaining a potential 40% increase in sales.

Toyota sees no v8 hears no v8 and speaks only in v6, Toyota will be a also ran against GM, Ford and Ram.

As to the Toyota PR crutch of they can't justify a V8 because its basically only a North American product, GM, Ford and Ram v8 full size trucks are primarily only a North American only product and they seem to get by just fine with V8s.

 

[Rotten.dalton]

I don’t think reporting on the tundra press release objectively makes Tim a shill by any stretch of the imagination. He’s an automotive journalist covering the facts of the updated Tundra. Rehashing the engine fiasco in every story mostly read by people who know all about it, isn’t adding much value to the information. I do agree that this generation Tundra is lost to those who know and cannot trust this engine, new bearing or not. We just won’t know whether the fix is a fix for years and that’s too much of a risk to take considering the oppressive cost of fixing or replacing this engine out of warranty.