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Pickups

This ’07 Tundra is 1 million miles strong. Now Toyota is trying to figure out how it built an unbreakable truck

Mike Sweers is a self-described truck guy. He has a ranch, drives a truck each and every day and has very clear ideas on what he wants personally in a pickup. He also happens to be the chief engineer of the Toyota Tacoma and Tundra, and as such he is in charge of the image, direction […]

July 27, 2016

Trucks

Restored ’74 Toyota FJ45 pickup a drool-worthy vintage beast (PHOTOS)

One word pops into mind upon seeing the truck above: “Gimme.” And though it’s $87,000 price tag is a bit hard to swallow, if one had the cash, one could imagine quickly rationalizing parting with said figure for a truck this well restored. Just look at that interior. A beautiful lack of plastic. Listed on eBay […]

June 1, 2016

Construction Equipment

Toyota unveils 2017 Tacoma TRD Pro: an exciting revival of its midsize off-roader

Toyota has given the latest iteration of its midsize pickup the Pro treatment with the unveiling of the 2017 Tacoma TRD Pro. The second-generation off-road offering from Toyota Racing Development pairs a 3.5-Liter V6 DOHC 24-valve direct-injection Atkinson-cycle engine with either a 6-speed automatic or 6-speed manual transmission. Standard features include black TRD Pro leather-trimmed […]

February 23, 2016

Construction Equipment

The Top 15 Construction Equipment and Truck stories of 2015

The past 12 months have been fun for everyone here at Equipment World. We integrated with our sister site Better Roads, upped the amount of content we produced every day, covered more events and trade shows, reached more people through social media and saw record traffic to the site. That’s mostly because we’ve got such great readers. […]

December 29, 2015

Construction Equipment

Toyota’s Tundrasine limo pickup can transport your whole crew to the jobsite in style (PHOTOS)

During the SEMA show we saw a lot of rather complicated concepts. Whether it was Toyota’s minivan-meets-Tacoma “UTV” concept, Honda’s next-gen Ridgeline racer tease or Nissan’s land speed record racing Titan, truck makers go to great lengths to impress attendees of the show. But one of the more impressive concept trucks at the show this […]

November 23, 2015

Construction Equipment

PHOTOS: The coolest trucks (and a few cars) from SEMA 2015 in one gallery

A couple of weeks ago we scoured the show floor at SEMA in Las Vegas and came back with a hefty bag of headlines. We saw lots of newsworthy pickups during our three days at the show and you can catch up on all those headlines in our SEMA 2015 hub by clicking here. But […]

November 19, 2015

Construction Equipment

PHOTOS > Toyota unveils Tonka 4Runner concept with a 10-inch lift kit

Just the word “Tonka” is enough to stop most grown men in their tracks. It’s embedded at an early age and tied to simple, happy memories of filling a small yellow truck with dirt or mud and pushing it around on all fours. Ford recently gave every male over 20 a heart attack when it […]

November 5, 2015

Construction Equipment

We’re at the SEMA show. That means it’s Truck Week

For the next four days, the Equipment World team will be reporting from the show floor of the Las Vegas Convention Center with full coverage of all the cool new pickups, work truck and truck aftermarket products on display at the annual SEMA show. Today (Monday) we’re getting a sneak peak at what the show has in […]

November 1, 2015

Construction Equipment

Toyota includes select Tundra model years in massive power window recall

The Tundra pickup is one of several models Toyota is including in a massive, 6.5 million-vehicle global recall related to a defect with the vehicles’ power windows. The automaker is recalling 2 million vehicles in the U.S. alone, including an unspecified number of 2009-2011 model year Tundras. The trucks could be affected by the issue […]

October 23, 2015

Construction Equipment

PHOTOS > Toyota recreates Marty McFly’s SR5 dream truck from ‘Back to the Future’ with a 2016 Tacoma

The iconic Delorean DMC D12 may be the star of the Back To The Future movie franchise, but it was a 1985 Toyota SR-5 Xtra Cab 4×4 that a teenaged Marty McFly longed for – and Jennifer Parker, of course. For what was widely referred to as Back To The Future Day, Toyota celebrated October […]

October 22, 2015

Construction Equipment

Crawl Control allows 2016 Toyota Tacoma to dig itself out of ungodly amounts of sand

We recently got a bit of wheel time with Toyota’s latest Tacoma midsize and came away fairly impressed with the 2016 model, particularly as an answer to GM’s strong midsize push with the Chevy Colorado and GMC Canyon. But the ‘WOW’ demo by far with this truck is a feature Toyota calls Crawl Control. In […]

August 26, 2015

Construction Equipment

FIRST DRIVE: 2016 Toyota Tacoma 4×4 an impressive upgrade in initial testing (PHOTOS, VIDEO)

Toyota has always taken their time when it comes to making generational changes to their pickups, the Tacoma being no exception. In fact, the last time the company’s best selling mid-size pickup saw any significant changes was in 2005 when the “second-generation” Tacoma, which was first introduced in 1995, rolled out with a new powertrain and body […]

August 19, 2015