“Not a bad truck really, but definitely a misstep by Toyota – the T100.
“In the early ’90s, Toyota appreciated the need to design cars specifically for the North American market and did it brilliantly with the XV10 Camry and the Lexus LS400 (as mentioned, the Previa was clearly the a car for the foreign market, and that’s just too weird and expensive to actually work here). Toyota also appreciates that they need a bigger truck than the Truck (Hilux) to really break through here, though at least the Truck has proven itself and still has a cult following.
“But the T100 they built just for us didn’t have a V8 (or a particularly powerful V6 engine), didn’t have a cabin that lasted the first few years of production, and despite being smaller than a truck large size, but was about 10% more expensive. Never mind how much larger domestic vans outsold, even midsize Dakotas outsold about 2:1.
“Though, the Tundra is not much better – at least according to the second generation, they have the basic details to be universally accepted and it cannot even sell more than 120,000 units per year (it reaches nearly 200 thousand years” 07, and that was it). “
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