2022 Toyota Tundra Reveal

Grit Dog wrote:
Yes good points for sure. I still don’t think as a top mfg, I’d kick the “traditional” “big V8” to the curb and only offer 1 “big engine”. If nothing else, even if 99% of the private buyers prefer a more complicated twin turbo V6 (which I don’t think is likely), you are certainly limiting your commercial sales where the “newest and bestest” ( read, more expensive and potentially not as proven) doesn’t win sales.
In 25 years in an industry that buys ALOT of pickup trucks, that industry decidedly does not buy near as many Ecoboost and Turbodiesel trucks as they do good old fashioned old tech, NA V8s.

I think Ford, and now Toyota, sees the writing on the wall in that as internal combustions slowly begin to sunset, direct injected turbo gas engines are replacing more cubic inches as a means to get maximum power and efficiency and lower emissions. Look at Ford's latest hot offerings, the Ranger and Bronco. Any engine type you want as long as it's direct injected with a turbocharger. The Ecoboost in the F150 kicks the snot out of the Coyote V8 in emperical testing and I think Ford sells a lot more of the little boosted V6s than the V8. Even Chrysler is getting on board with that 2.0 turbo in the Jeep line which seems to be a better performing engine than the Pentastar V6. The only code that the small, boosted DI motor hasn't seemed to crack yet is the higher duty cycle HD world, but they are trying like hell, with the Eco V6 now being offered in all models of the Ford Transit. We haven't seen these motors in HD pickups yet, but you know that we will. We just don't have to like it.... ;)