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By JASON STEIN FOR WHEELBASE COMMUNIC
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truck. If the Chevrolet Silverados aren’t taking shots at you, the Dodge Rams and Ford F-150s of the world are lining up to follow suit.
How does Toyota answer the challenge? How does it respond to the big boys with the biggest toys? With enough gusto and machismo to be a legitimate thorn in their collective side.
Along with the new Nissan Titan, the Toyota Tundra is the only importbranded vehicle beating down the full-size truck door. Listen closely and you can hear it knocking. Soon, you’ll hear it roaring.
Toyota is ready to make its first jump into big-time • NASCAR racing: the Craftsman Truck Series (in February of 2004). And just to get everyone ready, the automaker has something big cooking. Really big, actually.
New for 2004, Toyota has introduced the much-anticipated four-door Tundra Double Cab to its full-size pickup truck line, the longest, widest, deepest and roomiest hauler the company has ever built.
The Double Cab joins the two-door Regular Cab and Access Cab with its shorter bed and two rear-hinged doors for easier back-seat entryT Three trim grades are offered: base; mid-level SR5; and the top-of-the-line Limited. The base trim is available only on two-wheeldrive regular cabs.
In any version the Tundra is good looking. All 2004 models arrive with a front fascia that was updated in ’03, standard antilock brakes and a center console that could easily fit in with the full-size Toyota Sequoia sport-utility vehicle.
With plenty of box/cab/engine variety, the Tundra can satisfy both the weekend-renovator and the full-time, full-on commercial user. Still, Toyota says the Double Cab is like nothing you’ve ever seen.
From every angle, the taller and wider truck plays the part of a brawny big-rig machine. If the four giant doors don’t instantly give it away, revised taillights will help you pick it out of the Toyota crowd.
The Double Cab’s real strength is that it does not compromise bed length or. depth to offer greater rearpassenger room than previous models. It's here that Toyota paid special attention.
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