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Sources: A-BAT A Go, Tundra Light-Duty Diesel Shelved
Toyota's future compact pickup is said to be based on the innovative A-BAT (Advanced Breakthrough Aero Truck) concept truck that debuted at the 2008 Detroit auto show. The A-BAT featured a footprint smaller than a Toyota RAV4 SUV, an expandable 4-foot cargo box and Toyota's Hybrid Synergy Drive.

Sources say two fuel-efficient powertrains will be offered in the truck at launch, including a gasoline-electric hybrid one and a four-cylinder gas-only version.
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Automotive News reports that Toyota execs acknowledge supplier bids have gone out for the new compact pickup but say the program could be killed if production cost estimates prove to be too high.

Toyota President Katsuaki Watanabe also made news at the Detroit auto show when he told journalists a diesel-powered Tundra would be "offered in the near future." But the high price of diesel fuel, high costs necessary to meet federal emissions regulations and slowing Tundra sales are all said to have combined to cancel those plans at least for the time being.

Tundra sales volume through August 2008 was down 15 percent from last year.
 

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hopfully they get smart and change the design!
 

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Well, Toyota will undercut the competition in price as they will surely cut at least a couple thousand off this already-crash-tested-but-never-fixed product. I can see the ads now...

Here at Toyota, we are proud to say that each and every of this model truck has been crash tested and given five stars. Nobody else can say this, not Dodge, GM, or Ford

Lol, it might be pretty if they would make a longer hood. It looks squished up, hense the crash test joke
 

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Toyota is retarded. Forget that stupid overstyled POS concept car/truck. Just build a modern version of what the compact Toyota pickup used to be before it even had a name......and slap a Scion label on it.
 

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Go, Toyota, build it! And then watch what'll happen to your stock.

Worse case senario is that people will eat it all up and buy this hideous truck.
 

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Oh yeah, the Vehicross was bad. Real bad, not this Toyota Truck car thing bad, but still really bad. It probably is worse then the Aztec as it was not as smooth and refined( not that the Aztec was sleek, but still )

I had forgotten about it until you brought it up. Gee, thanks Slideways! lol jk
 

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Toyota: Trying to out-ugly the competition.
 

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Let's throw some real fuel on this hate-fest. ..... It probably will be called the Prius Pick Up, note the Hybrid Synergy Drive option, getting 30+ mpg.

Allegedly it's built on the Highlander platform like the Ridgeline is built on the Odyssey platform. This vehicle already exists. It's currently called the Highlander they just opened up the back and gave it a bed. Both will have the 2.7L I4 with 187 hp as the base engine and the 3.3L + HSD with 270 hp as the upscale option.

Same platform, same drive systems, same plant ( Princeton ) and getting 28 - 33 mpg? It's a new world. Ugly or not ( Hello Prius ) economy sells.
 

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Wow. That's a ship load of ugly. We're talkin' Aztek ugly.
 

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Let's throw some real fuel on this hate-fest. ..... It probably will be called the Prius Pick Up, note the Hybrid Synergy Drive option, getting 30+ mpg.
The prius looks like a fat gerbil.

I suppose this piece of :)mad::mad::mad::mad:) looks like a fat, angry gerbil who got too close to a weedwhacker...

But whatever. They still haven't learned that they fail at making trucks and always will.
 
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