In May, Toyota took the long-awaited wraps off the all-new 2024 Toyota Tacoma. The midsize pickup's redesign follows that of the Toyota Tundra and the Toyota Sequoia SUV.
Toyota says its team faced quite a few monumental and unique challenges in bringing the fourth-generation Tacoma to the road. Toyota says development was just ramping up in March 2020 - right when the world was shutting down due to the pandemic.
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Another challenge: the new Tacoma is also the largest prototype build ever taken on by Toyota Motor North America Research and Development (TMNA R&D). TMNA built 401 prototypes for testing, the most units ever for a TMNA R&D prototype build. They were built at TMNA R&D headquarters over the course of four months in late 2022 and early 2023.
Given everything faced by the TMNA R&D team, it took more than four years to develop the next-gen Tacoma, and from what we've seen so far, it was worth the wait. The redesigned pickup truck has a lot of cool available features that include an a removable JBL speaker and a first-of-its-kind IsoDynamic Performance seat standard on Tacoma TRD Pro.
To read even more about the new Tundra's development, check out Toyota's article here.
For more on the Tacoma's design, check out the video below that shows how Toyota's Calty Design Research led design efforts.
