Toyota Wants To Put Twin-Turbo Tacoma X-Runner Into Production

“There were lots of street trucks in the early 2000s and they all faded, so on the one hand, this was a curiosity check to see if there is any market for street trucks at all, or if the market has entirely shifted to what we see today-tough, rugged, lifted vehicles,” said Adam Rabinowitz, Chief Designer at Toyota’s Calty Design Research.

“On the heels of the Tacoma launch, we wanted to showcase the diverse possibilities of the new truck’s architecture, “said Brown in the concept’s press release. “The TGNA-F platform allows us to efficiently build something this cool in a fraction of the development time it would normally take. A project like this is why you get into the automotive business.”

He told us the development time was a mere two months, but we imagine Toyota engineers and designers have been thinking through the idea for much longer, given what it took to actually pull it off.