2014 Toyota Tundra 5.7L V-8 4x4 - Car and Driver
And although Ford, GM, and Ram have been burnishing their corporations’ bottom lines for decades, Toyota’s full-size Tundra has never really turned cargo-hauling capability into solid-gold success. This fall, while Toyota was celebrating the one-millionth Tundra to roll off its San Antonio assembly line since the plant opened in 2006, Ford casually announced it had sold 559,506 F-series trucks in the first nine months of 2013 alone. And the other two weren’t far off Ford’s pace during the same period, with GM selling 496,445 of the Sierra/Silverado twins and Ram delivering 262,787 units. Harsh statistics from the Toyota perspective, even as the domestics bolster their numbers by lumping half-ton trucks together with their heavy-duty models. Buyers can select from three carry-over engines: the base 270-hp, 4. 0-liter V-6 (available only on 2WD regular and Double Cab models). the 310-hp, 4. 6-liter V-8. and the 381-hp, 5. 7-liter V-8 found under the hood of our Tundra Limited CrewMax 4x4. Both of the V-8s still pair with a six-speed automatic, while the V-6 continues to make do with five-speed auto. Unlike the smorgasbord of options available in the domestic trucks, the Tundra’s order sheet keeps the list of available engine and axle-ratio combinations short: The V-6 and the 4. 6-liter V-8 get a 3. 91 axle, and the 5. 7-liter V-8 receives a... Source: www.caranddriver.com
