25,000 Miles In Toyota's Tundra: Does It Live Up To The Billing?

The 2007 Toyota Tundra is more than an all-new Tundra; it's an all-new truck concept for Toyota, a full-scale work truck. With a payload capacity of nearly 1,600 pounds and a towing capacity of over 10,000 pounds, the Tundra means business. Toyota backed up this truck's utility with a 5.7-liter V8 generating 381 horsepower and 401 pound-feet of torque. These figures alone were enough to secure its place in our garage. But there was more.

We had already completed a full test of the 2007 Toyota Tundra Limited with impressive results. And a Tundra Double Cab 4x4 won our full-size pickup comparison test against the Chevrolet Silverado and Nissan Titan. A test of the Tundra's long-term durability was the obvious next step. If this truck's reliability held true to its Toyota pedigree, the Tundra would be the truck to beat in the half-ton truck segment.

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Designer1 - 9/20/2008 7:48:18 AM

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hey stupid damikco, do you want to add to your idiotic comments that the BMW can tow more than the Tundra too?

Such stupid hate comes from no others but the idiot German fans. Bunch of kids!!

tundrahq - 9/20/2008 3:07:11 PM

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Damicko - Your comments are completely misleading. 20 units had a camshaft defect that was repaired immediately. That's not much of an "engine problem." The 'problem' that you reference with Consumer Reports was the fact that CR decided to stop recommending Toyotas without driving/testing them first. Seems like a reasonable precaution before CR should recommend a vehicle, don't you think? The real problem is that they recommended cars without driving them in the first place...

As for your comments that the Tundra "lost 38% of it's value in just to [sic] years," that's considerably better than many competing vehicles. New Dodge Rams, for instance, were losing 50% of their value BEFORE THEY EVER LEFT THE LOT. Dealers were literally selling new Rams for half of sticker! Considering gas prices and the glut of new trucks, all trucks lost tremendous value. That's got nothing to do with the Tundra.

Any more 'facts' for us?

tundrahq - 9/23/2008 3:33:34 PM

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Still not significant - recalls are different than reliability.

AMiodynski - 9/19/2008 3:45:59 PM

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Back to the drawing boards, who are you kidding? They atleast recognized the problem and fixed the problem right away. As far as engine problem's, less than a 1,000 engine's actually had problems..

Lemonade - 9/19/2008 4:54:16 PM

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GM Sucks! Their trucks are gutless

carguy68 - 9/19/2008 6:25:20 PM

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GM suck's and toyotas suck and are ugly!

rawbux - 9/20/2008 3:17:39 AM

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Chevy trucks rule!

rawbux - 9/20/2008 3:20:45 AM

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25,000 miles doesn't prove much, most trucks are juat getting broke in!

Barrie - 9/21/2008 12:18:09 AM

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Tooyota`s have a reputation for reliability, I ask one question WHY?, I drove a new Corolla in the 70`s, it wouldn`t idle properly, and went back to the agents several times, it would still stall when sitting at traffic lights, the owner replaced it with a BMW, the Rav 4, my brother has one, he has had a few small problems, also the transmission is troublesome, he prefers his 1973 Ford Escort, my wife had a low mileage Corolla, the transmission went wrong, the electric windows didn`t always work and the central locking stopped working, she now has a 1995 BMW, nothing has gone wrong in well over a year

kpaxx - 9/21/2008 5:40:56 PM

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And we all remember the bed bounce video.

I'd get a silverado!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWjTbiYo3x0