Toyota Announces Diesel for Tundra

[4Rescue]

Well, having been to the land of awsome Diesel Cruisers we'll never see and having driven these trucks, I'll say it's worth the wait, I just hope it's not juat a rumor...

The word in South Africa is that Toyota are buying Isuzu engines for their trucks. Probably a good plan because for years Isuzu have been the benchmark in durability.

Yeah, right along with Mercedes, Toyota and Cummins...I'd say Cummins spanks them all and Merc is right there with them (in fact, Merc is in all likelyhood the global leader in Diesel reliability)I belive it was a 1hz powered 75 Series Land Cruiser that made it all the way around Africa with 0 Maintinence, and is the only truck to EVER do so... Flat out, there are better diesels than Isuzu's out there... But they're a quality motor no doubt, they've pretty much saved GM's HD truck line eh...

 

[Spikepretorius]

My Isuzu comment was based on the situation here in SA with our small trucks. I'm not an Isuzu fanatic but it's commonly accepted here that their engines outlast anything else in our market. The Toyota/Isuzu link up may just be a local thing.

 

[Grim Reaper]

Working for Toyota for over twenty years now sometimes gives you inside info on things like this.
I have heard two possibilities, both from the same source, a friend high up at Toyota Corporate in Denver.
The first is Toyota partnering with Caterpillar to use one of their diesels.
The other is Toyota using one of their Hino diesels, using the 4.5 or building an all new v8 diesel in house.
The fact that I haven't heard anything more on this tells me either the diesels are still a ways off or that Toyota has done a much better job at keeping the diesel debut a secret.
I think I'll call him again this weekend.

I read that they were talking to Isuzu about sourcing some engines. Reason the article stated is the Diesels Toyota had were not clean enough ofr California and Isuzu was already well into development.

 

[4Rescue]

My Isuzu comment was based on the situation here in SA with our small trucks. I'm not an Isuzu fanatic but it's commonly accepted here that their engines outlast anything else in our market. The Toyota/Isuzu link up may just be a local thing.

Who knows, car/truck companies do some interesting things from time to time Eh