Toyota Mini Truck Diesel

Toyota wants to take on the Ford Maverick and Hyundai Santa Cruz with its own small pickup truck, expected to hit the market sometime in 2027. Long before Ford launched the popular Maverick compact pickup truck in 2021, the advanced product strategy team at Toyota were planning a small truck of their own to slot below the bestselling. It's nice to think that a bare-bones truck at a rock-bottom price could find a customer base in America, but that's unlikely to sway Toyota, which is only making the thinnest of margins on the.

Toyota Finally Confirms Small Truck Maverick Rival - 'Not If, But When' originally appeared on Autoblog. Toyota's Small Pickup Truck Is In The Pipeline Toyota will launch a small pickup truck aimed at the likes of the Hyundai Santa Cruz and Ford Maverick, replacing the Tacoma as the brand's new entry point to its pickup lineup. Toyota's first U.S.-market diesel mini truck landed in 1981, initially offered as a 2WD long-bed Deluxe model with a five-speed manual.

Under the hood was Toyota's 2.2-liter L diesel engine, an inline-four designed from the ground up for diesel duty (unlike some competitors' converted gasoline engines). This engine put out about 62 horsepower and 93 lb-ft of torque, modest even by early. Mind you, in order to fit into the brand's existing truck lineup, Toyota's smallest pickup is likely to adopt styling cues from its bigger siblings, the Tacoma and the Tundra.

We should therefore expect a rugged appearance featuring a big grille, flared fenders, squared-off wheel arches with plastic cladding, and chiseled surfaces. Toyota has effectively confirmed a small pickup truck will arrive; it's just a matter of when. Here's why it matters.

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