Toyota Diesel ---- Will They Ever?
Very impressed w/wifes Toyota Sequoia. Reckon Toyota will ever come out with a diesel tow vehicle? I know they were planning to about 9 years ago but got scared off by our economy.
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Jim-Linda wrote:Lessmore wrote:
I know it's a Toyota owned, commercial truck company, not designed to be a Cadillac on a truck frame, but has anyone seen a Hino truck pulling an RV ?
Looked at the Hino 195DC on the Hino website. It has a ...dual cab, 4 doors seating for 5-6. Diesel 210 hp, 440 ft. lbs torque, 6 speed Aisin automatic. Warranty is tremendous for powertrain.
I recall in the deep and dark recesses of my mind that Nissan used to have a similar commercial truck...that I remember was outfitted to pull a large RV trailer. This would be about 20 years ago.
Wonder if there is potential for Hino to enter the RV towing market ? Some may feel 210 hp/ 440 ft. lbs of torque maybe inadequate.
You are probably thinking about the UD1800. We had one in '94 after our Ford 7.3, E40D crapped a tranny in the middle of Yellowstone. The truck was a cabover, extended cab, 6 speed manual with the best exhaust brake I have seen. Terrible ride even with air rear added. It served us until I retired in '96 when DW said with a straight face, "if you think i'm going to row the shifter from now on, you are out of your mind.
That put us in a FL60 w/Allison that we still have today.
Jim
These are basically old delivery trucks, that would have been slow pulling a 5th Wheeler. Lot of modern Japanese / European vehicles would do a vastly better job, but they are not available in the US
