TIP TOP TUNDRA

TOYOTA IS BRINGING ITS TUNDRA PICKUP TO AUSTRALIA IN 2024, BUT IF YOU CAN’T WAIT THAT LONG, THE GOOD NEWS IS YOU CAN GET ONE NOW. WE JUMP BEHIND THE WHEEL OF A RECENTLY ARRIVED TUNDRA SR5 FOR AN EXCLUSIVE FIRST AUSTRALIAN DRIVE.

WORDS MATT RAUDONIKIS

IT’S no secret that Toyota is bringing its Tundra full-size pickup truck to Australia. It has 300 of them undergoing engineering and development testing here in collaboration with Walkinshaw Automotive which will be doing the left- to right-hand drive re-engineering. Walkinshaw already does such work for GMSV and its Silverado, and for Ateco with its RAM trucks. While Toyota hasn’t yet confirmed that the Tundra will officially go on sale here, you don’t put that sort of development program in motion without serious intentions, and several development vehicles have been regularly spotted running around Victoria. Having previously driven older model V8-powered Tundras both in the USA and in Australia, we couldn’t wait to get behind the wheel of the latest generation to see how it stacks up. So we turned to Melbourne-based…

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4x4 Magazine Australia (Digital) - 1 Issue, October 2023

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