What sort of car is the 2022 Toyota Tundra? What does it evaluate to?

The 2022 Tundra is a full-size pickup truck with a brand new hybrid choice and the standard multitude of mattress and cab configurations. It competes with the Ford F-150, Ram 1500, and Chevy Silverado.

Is the 2022 Toyota Tundra a superb truck?

Overview continues beneath

Lengthy overdue, the redesigned Tundra appears to be like and appears like a welcome improve to the full-size pickup truck section, however we’ll withhold our ranking till we drive it. (Learn extra about how we charge vehicles.)

What’s new for the 2022 Toyota Tundra?

The primary new Tundra since 2007 makes the full-size truck new once more with an accessible hybrid powertrain, a multi-link rear suspension, 12,000 lb of towing capability, and the newest in normal security and comfort options. Toyota will promote it in SR, SR5, Restricted, Platinum, 1794, and TRD Professional fashions, with choose TRD packages.

Provided in crew cab and prolonged cab our bodies with 4 doorways, the brand new Tundra’s omega-shaped grille pronounces its daring new presence. Slender headlights and DRLs wrap into the large blocky fenders, stretching the truck outward. The bulging fenders and squared-off wheel cutouts are related by a recessed character line within the decrease half of the doorways, and three accessible mattress sizes full the profile. An influence tailgate may be accessed from a recess within the taillights, or by the fob, and gate. Toyota has not but detailed specs or adjustments within the new truck’s dimensions.

The broad, muscular exterior, with low strains stretching the size and width of the car, reverberates throughout its horizontal sprint even when geared up with the big 14.0-inch touchscreen. D-shaped vents flank the display screen like ears, and horizontal local weather buttons and a big quantity knob limits the reliance on contact. A gear shifter occupies a large middle console with accessible wi-fi smartphone charging, padded armrests, and different soft-touch supplies on most trims.

Toyota retired the V-8 and its outdated 6-speed computerized in favor of two twin-turbo V-6s with a 10-speed computerized transmission. The bottom 3.5-liter twin-turbo V-6 places out 389 hp and 479 lb-ft, which outperforms the outgoing 5.7-liter V-8’s 381 hp and 401 lb-ft. 

Just like the 2021 Ford F-150 Hybrid, Toyota suits the 2022 Tundra with an accessible 3.5-liter twin-turbo V-6 hybrid making 437 hp and 583 lb-ft at 2,400 rpm. A motor generator sandwiched between the engine and transmission gives enhance to the engine whereas driving, but the hybrid system will energy engine cease/begin, regenerative braking, electrical help, and EV driving at speeds underneath 18 mph. Sport and Sport+ drive modes complement a Tow/Haul mode on the console drive selector. The 288-volt nickel-metal hydride battery pack sits underneath the rear seats within the Tundra Hybrid. 

Effectivity rankings haven’t been introduced but, however each V-6s ought to outperform final 12 months’s EPA-rated 13 mpg metropolis, 18 freeway, 15 mixed on the V-8 with rear-wheel drive. The 2021 F-150 Hybrid has a 24 mpg mixed ranking with 4WD. 

The Hybrid is as notable as the brand new suspension and the change from a ladder-style body to a wider absolutely boxed body. A brand new, lighter double wishbone suspension up entrance and a multi-link rear suspension with coil springs changing the outdated leaf springs promise to melt the trip and enhance the dealing with. Larger trims mount the cabin to the body with hydraulic cab mounts, and bigger crossmembers reinforce the chassis to make it extra inflexible. 

An accessible air suspension with three heights simplifies loading the mattress and for low-speed off-roading in Excessive mode. Out there adaptive dampers easy over highway imperfections for a extra snug road drive. TRD Professional grades get 2.5-inch Fox inner bypass shocks with a 1.1-inch entrance raise, a TRD-specific entrance stabilizer bar, aluminum entrance skid plate, and all-terrain Falken tires. 

The hybrid powertrain is normal on the TRD Professional, and supplied on Restricted, Platinum, and 1794 fashions.

The redesigned Tundra is available in two four-door physique kinds with three mattress lengths. Prolonged cabs include a 6-foot-5 mattress or an 8-foot-1 mattress, whereas crew cabs may be had with a 5-foot-5 mattress or 6-foot-5 mattress. The max payload is 1,940 lb (up from 1,730 within the outgoing mannequin), however Toyota hasn’t damaged down capabilities by physique fashion and powertrain but. 

Security and Infotainment options

Toyota continues to prioritize security by equipping each Tundra trim degree with computerized emergency braking, adaptive cruise management, energetic lane management, blind-spot screens, computerized excessive beams, and a rear-seat reminder. That gear makes it the very best geared up full-size truck in the case of security. Federal and unbiased crash testing shall be performed as soon as the brand new Tundra goes on sale. 

Maybe the largest information for Toyota’s largest mannequin is the large 14.0-inch touchscreen and new infotainment system that was designed in and made for the American market. Just like the system debuting within the 2022 Lexus NX, the setup sports activities a contemporary font, sharper visuals, pinch-and-zoom performance, enhanced voice instructions, twin microphones for each entrance passengers, and it has 5 occasions larger processing velocity, based on Toyota. 

A big quantity dial and eight.0-inch touchscreen come normal with wi-fi Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, as does an influence tailgate. A wi-fi hotspot allows connections for as much as 10 units, and accessible navigation stays contemporary with over-the-air updates. Choices embody a panoramic roof, heated and cooled entrance seats, and heated steering wheel. An accessible 12.3-inch digital instrument cluster comes normal with the hybrid engine and on Platinum, 1794, and TRD Professional fashions. The usual cluster on SR and SR5 fashions has a 4.1-inch car data show. 

The TRD Off-Highway bundle accessible on SR5, Restricted, and 1794 has 18-inch or 20-inch TRD wheels, monotube Bilstein shocks, a particular grille, skid plates, mud guards, and on 4WD fashions, an digital rear differential lock. The TRD Sport bundle accessible on SR5 fashions provides 20-inch TRD wheels, a particular grille, and a lowered sport suspension.

An accessible surround-view digicam system initiatives chicken’s-eye views of the truck and trailer, the cargo mattress, and the hitch. New energy aspect mirrors are bigger, heated, and include accessible cameras to undertaking blind-spot views on the touchscreen. The mirrors additionally home LED trailering lights to assist park the trailer at night time.  

Toyota gives a 36-month/36,000-mile fundamental guarantee on the 2022 Tundra, together with manufacturing unit scheduled upkeep and 24-hour roadside help for 2 years or 25,000 miles. 

How a lot does the 2022 Toyota Tundra price?

Costs shall be introduced close to the sale date on the finish of the 12 months. Count on it to price greater than the $36,000 beginning worth of the outgoing mannequin. 

The place is the 2022 Toyota Tundra made?

In San Antonio, Texas.