2024 Toyota Tacoma: American ute getting hybrid power

Toyota has again teased its next-generation Tacoma, the American relative to the HiLux, and confirmed it beryllium disposable with a hybrid powertrain.

This latest teaser image, showing the tailgate of the TRD Pro variant, follows a erstwhile teaser representation that revealed the next-generation Tacoma’s muscular and bluff silhouette.

In the little right-hand country of the tailgate successful the latest teaser representation is an i-Force Max badge, signifying the Tacoma volition beryllium disposable with a hybrid powertrain similar the larger Tundra and Sequoia.

Tundra and Sequoia variants with the i-Force Max hybrid powertrain are powered by a 3.5-litre twin-turbo petrol V6 motor with a centrifugal generator and a 288V nickel-metal hydride artillery pack. Total strategy outputs are 326kW of powerfulness and 790Nm of torque.

It’s unclear if the Tacoma’s i-Force Max hybrid powertrain volition beryllium tuned to nutrient little power, due to the fact that the existent model’s non-hybrid 3.5-litre V6 petrol motor produces 207kW and 359Nm.

Toyota has besides rolled retired a caller 2.4-litre turbocharged four-cylinder hybrid powertrain called the Hybrid Max, which successful the Kluger-based Grand Highlander pumps retired 270kW of powerfulness and 542Nm of torque.

According to US reports, the next-generation Tacoma volition besides beryllium disposable with a longitudinally mounted mentation of the Kluger’s 2.4-litre turbocharged four-cylinder engine. In the Kluger this motor produces 198kW and 420Nm and is mated to an eight-speed automatic transmission.

The caller Tacoma volition reportedly beryllium based connected the company’s TNGA-F body-on-frame architecture, which presently underpins the Tundra and Sequoia, arsenic good arsenic the LandCruiser 300 Series.

The aforesaid architecture volition reportedly beryllium utilized by the adjacent HiLux and LandCruiser Prado.

Once this next-generation Tacoma is revealed it volition people the archetypal clip the pickup has received a large update successful astir a decade. The current-generation exemplary was unveiled successful 2015 and went into accumulation successful 2016.

Toyota has teased an electric mentation of the Tacoma with an electrical pickup motortruck conception shown successful December 2021 among a ample array of electrical concepts from Toyota and Lexus.

The latest Toyota HiLux has been styled to look akin to the North American Tacoma, which has ne'er been offered successful Australia, and it seems apt the next-generation exemplary volition travel suit.

The existent HiLux was launched locally successful 2015 and is owed for a caller procreation wrong the adjacent fewer years.

Toyota’s section part precocious launched the tweaked HiLux Rogue variant, and plans for the range-topping HiLux GR Sport to commencement arriving successful the 2nd fractional of this year.

The carmaker besides precocious showed disconnected a the HiLux Revo BEV concept in Thailand which points toward however an electrical HiLux mightiness look.

Once the caller Tacoma is launched, it volition apt beryllium followed by a caller mentation of the 4Runner SUV which shares its body-on-frame underpinnings. Toyota offers this exemplary successful North America alternatively of the LandCruiser Prado.

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