2014 Toyota Tundra 1794 — an upscale pickup that gets around. - SFGate (blog)
It’s just wild, this big, hulking Toyota Tundra. A friend who has traveled extensively in the Middle East pointed out to me that Toyota pickups, widely known for their indestructibility, are the camions of choice for all those revolutionaries, insurgents and just plain bad guys waging war in... Known in the war business as “technicals,” these battle-scarred Toyotas are usually equipped with. 50-caliber machine guns, their tripods mounted on heavy steel plates bolted to the pickup’s bed. You frequently see technicals in jittery combat footage on the evening news, the guns being swiveled from side to side by a fellow who looks like he’s on the tail end of a serious meth jag. Around these parts – we write this review from relatively peaceful Northern California – the Toyota pickups are mercifully known simply as Tundras. It’s a name that appears to be Toyota’s marketing-think way of mimicking (if a bit obscurely) every other truck maker eager to get the rubes in the door, ready to shell out fifty large for a pickup. (Our test truck had a retail price of $48,880. ) In the eyes of many, the western United States is still a somewhat romantic notion, an ideal, a myth, a place where trucks are trucks and if you name them after something with a western motif,... Source: blog.sfgate.com
