2007 Toyota Tundra

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By John Pearley Huffman, Editor

To absolutely no one’s surprise, the new made-in-Texas 2007 Toyota Tundra is significantly larger than the one it replaces. That’s not much of an achievement; after all, Toyota only had to have the CAD systems juice every dimension up about 5 percent to get that job done. What is surprising is how clearly the new Tundra breaks with traditional Toyota truck philosophy. After 72 years building straightforward, simply decorated, relatively unadorned and conservative trucks , Toyota is now in the stylish truck business. There’s an argument to be made that this paradigmatic design shift by Toyota really took place with the introduction of the 2005 Tacoma . Could be. But even the Tacoma is nowhere near as agonizingly self-conscious as this new Tundra. Self-conscious though it is, there are elements of the new Tundra that can only be described as brilliant. And other parts that have to count as bizarre or disappointing. The big part ... Read full review

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