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The Toyota Tundra is a pickup truck manufactured in the U.S. by the Japanese manufacturer Toyota since May 1999. The Tundra was the first North American full-size pickup to be built by a Japanese manufacturer. The Tundra was nominated for the North American Truck of the Year award and was Motor Trend magazine's Truck of the Year in 2000 and 2008. Initially built in a new Toyota plant in Princeton, Indiana, production was consolidated in 2008 to Toyota's San Antonio, Texas, factory and is the only full-size pickup truck manufactured in Texas. The first generation Tundra had many similarities with the older Toyota T100 and the compact Toyota Tacoma. These included the shared use of a 3.4-liter V6 engine which was the top of the line engine in both the Tacoma and T100. The V6 engine would serve as the base engine for the Tundra, while a second engine was added, a 4.7-liter V8, the first V8 for a Toyota truck. ==First generation (2000–2006)== Publicly introduced in May 1999 as a 2000 model, the Tundra prototypes and "show trucks" were initially known as T150s. However, Ford and automotive journalists described the name was too close to the market-leader Ford F-150, and following a lawsuit by Ford, the production truck was renamed the Tundra. The Tundra was slightly larger than the T100, but had the perception of being too small and car-like to pose a serious threat to the domestic pickup trucks. With a production capacity of 120,000, sales were double the rate of the T100. At its introduction the Tundra had the highest initial vehicle sales for Toyota in its history. It was selected as ''Motor Trends Truck of the Year award for 2000 and Best Full- Size Truck from ''Consumer Reports''. It was built in a new Toyota plant in Princeton, Indiana, with 65 percent domestic content. Engine choices available in the Tundra were a 24V 3.4-liter V6 engine that produced and of torque and an LEV certified 32 valve 4.7-liter "i-Force" V8 engine that produced and of torque. A Toyota Racing Development (TRD) supercharger was already available for the 3.4-liter V6 (2000-2003 models) that bumped horsepower to the range and of torque. TRD introduced a second supercharger for the V8 (2000-2003 models) engine late into its second year of production that increased to the mid range and torque to the range. The V6 supercharger is still available, the V8 supercharger ended production once Toyota released the updated VVT-i equipped 4.7-liter engine. The grille was updated in 2002 (for the 2003 model year) along with a new Stepside Cab which was a Stepside version of the Access Cab to get more competition with Ford and Chevy and the Double Cab version was added to the lineup in 2003. The Double Cab model was a crew cab with four normal doors, with interior and exterior details copied from the Toyota Sequoia. Its bed is nearly longer than the competing Nissan Titan or Ford F-150. It is also longer and taller than the Regular and Access cab versions. A new engine was introduced in 2005: a 4.0-liter V6 rated at and of torque, and the existing 4.7-liter V8 was updated with Toyota's VVT-i variable valve timing technology and was rated at and of torque while the 2006 versions were rerated at and of torque. The 5-speed manual gave way to a 6-speed manual, and a 5-speed automatic replaced the 4-speed. With a towing capacity of 6,900 lb (on the Double Cabs) and a 7,100 pounds on the Access Cabs and Regular Cabs with a V8 engine, the Tundra still did not have enough powerto compete with the heavy-duty offerings of the Big Three and Nissan. In 2003 the T3 Special Edition was sold in conjunction with the release of the Terminator 3 movie. It included a TRD performance package, "T3" badging, blacked out grill and trim pieces, special 17-inch rims and T3 limited interior trim. 650 were sold in the US as 2WD and 200 were sold in Canada as 4WD. In 2006 the Darrell Waltrip Edition was marketed to honor the NASCAR driver and his participation in the NASCAR Truck Series. Only 2000 V8 powered Double Cab models were produced. The package included special badging and unique 18-inch wheels. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) rated the Tundra "Good" overall in their frontal offset crash test. It was the first full-size pickup awarded a "Good" score, its then competitors from Ford and Dodge were rated "Poor" and in the case of GM's entry "Marginal". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Toyota Tundra」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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