What is the Toyota Tundra ?
History – The Toyota Tundra is Toyota Motor Corporations second attempt at producing a full size truck for the American marketplace. Its predecessor is the Toyota T-100. (The T-100 never really took off in the American market due to two primary reasons: A V6 Engine was the biggest you could get, and the truck was not made in America, so it was subject to heavy import tariffs.) Prototypes of the Tundra was released to Toyota Motorsports particpants (PPI Racing with Ivan Stewart, and Rod Millen Motorsports) in 1998, starting rumor mills worldwide as to the possible replacement of the T-100. It first began as an engine upgrade to the existing T-100 racing variant from a V6 to a V8. Publically introduced in its closest current form at various motor shows from 1998 to 1999, the Toyota Tundra was originally called the T-150. Caught in a blizzard of bad press from both Ford Motor Corporation (who thought it would confuse people with the F150) and automotive critics, the name was changed to Tu
