New Tacoma Designers Wanted To Make A 'Bad-Ass Adventure Machine' – The Autopian Podcast (w/ CALTY Designers)

[Administrator]

Podcast with Adam Rabinowitz, exterior chief designer, and Benjamin Jimenez, General Manager at CALTY.

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[univurshul]

yew! ...apologizing for the air dam right off the bat LOL.

Funny that CALTY's show & tell was a Limited (the worst-looking grill), but you know they really wanted to talk about the ~5th/6th gen BEV concept (where they teased the 4g fascia over a year ago). That Tacoma, when it arrives, will be a solid state battery, probably a true badass rig. A 4-banger w/a turbo is debatable as being coined badass. Honda has lawnmowers that'll put a fight just saying ...Adventure machine? - sure, but first Toyota N.A. needs to mass produce the halo grades to exist in the wild shoulder to shoulder with the lower trims. Does no good talking about it for years, selling the dream and then only produce a handful to sit under the expo lights while their customer base buys SRs or Sports to simply haul gear to the hockey rink or jobsite.