The black on the rear of the front seat headrests males it look like a couple of motorcycle helmets peering at the back seat passengers. That said, It would be nicer for the rear seat passengers to have a dark color instead of a bright white glare in their faces from bright lights or sunlight. As to the other features, I like that front seat thigh extension.
Like all truck manufacturers, the great majority of truck buyers buy them for "lifestyle purposes" ... meaning for looks.. not work... the largest profit margins are in the "lifestyle truck" segment... Luxury suv is not new and similar... it's crossing over into pickups... Landcruiser, G-Wagon, GX, LX, Landrover etc... people can now enjoy that lux in a pickup too 😃
I appreciate seeing these videos on hybrids, but understand that not everyone who watches videos here likes them. Perhaps a focus on some of the best-in-segment or most-important hybrids could be a worthy strategy. Stuff like the Maverick (done already!!), but also perhaps vehicles like the Lexus ES300H or Camry Hybrid, both of which get fantastic fuel economy. A look into one of Volvos PHEV's, something like the S90 T8, could be pretty intriguing too, they do a lot of engineering stuff differently (like some new models using a leaf spring in the rear suspension); with very minimal yet well-built interiors.
Thanks Carl, you know your stuff,Toyotas are considered " luxury " in the Philippines where everything imported are usually subject to 30% import duty, and also can depend on Engine displacement, the Rav 4 is considered " luxury".
Carl, you are amazing with your critique and knowledge. Outstanding presentation If you allow me to add couple of points first beauty and/or perceived luxury is more of symmetry, proportionality, consistency and soft transition between shapes, surfaces and material. While can be subjective statement but holds true for most of the cases From your presentation, don’t see or feel this on this vehicle. Different types and sizes of switches, very large protruding AC vents, boxy door design, choices of colours (such as white arm rests and headrests), centre consol edges, door arm rest leather wrapping ..etc. Second point, the human machine interface seems to be overlooked here with what you called hidden or shelf bottons and placement of switches (not easily accessible or seen). This vehicle screams “Look How I look” Worked for 4 auto manufacturers for 17 years of my career. Many years ago rented 2 vehicles that challenged me when I went to pick them at night. The Prius, took me few minutes to figure out how to find and release the parking brakes at night; and RAV 4 where I had to use my phone light find out the mirror switches to be able to adjust.
I don't think I ever want to present any product to Carl to review or I will be left crying at the end. The man will never give 5 stars to anything. Maybe not even 4 stars
🤗👍THANKS CARL AND THE MUNRO TEAM … I know a lot of people like Toyotas …but IMHHO … I can think of 77,000 reasons not to get one😅 and that is just to start NOT INCLUDING MAINTENANCE AND PARTS …always at a premium 🙄
It is a truck! A truck from the world's largest sedan maker that is what you get. Biased? Can I be biased just because the very first car I drove in the US was a Ford Pinto? After all the Mustang is a horse too and my stigma is sort of not going away.
I loved how Carl nit pics stuffs that will become relevant as you sit and stare at the interior of your vehicle. Toyotas are awesome vehicles, my 18-year-old will outlive me yet I feel they are slowly becoming like Honda and yesterdays success story. I don't care what you use your vehicle for, everybody's arms will turn those arm rests a disgusting colour eventually.
Def not a work truck.. but I rather like the interior, buttons etc. I would never choose white thought. Also, there’s a hellava waiting list for these. No shortage of buyers.
I have an F150 platinum with more features than a Lexus. Even heated rear seats! Brown leather also looks new. White is not a good color for a truck interior. I doubt this truck will be used for real work.
@@carholic-sz3qv I have an 11 GS 350 AWD, both vehicles are very nice, but the Jury is out on which one is more Luxury. The Front suspension on that AWD sedan is set up like the truck (or vice versa). The transmission was shared with the Tundra, but the sedan has a special transfer case. There is a bumpout near the gas pedal for it.
Seat color layout...... Star Wars ? Cost-save is possibly more critical on low volume vehicles, but negligible on high volume.. efficiency of scale and all that. But amazing the perforation mismatch, that is so sloppy. Some consider it minor or negligible... but it reflects the corporate attitude on quality that I would expect follows through all aspects of the vehicle. "good 'nuff". Did someone steal trim pieces from the rear wheel-wells?
2005 Tacoma owner here: this Tundra interior is pretty grotesque. Way too many buttons, many hard to see. The screen looks like it is going to be sun glare city at that angle. Can you really open the storage bin without whacking your knees? This is an over the top soccer mom and Home Depot mulch retrieval vehicle, no way it is appropriate for work. And yes I agree Toyota brakes, even the four piston calipers on 4x4 six-bolt wheels are weak. The brakes are easier than usual to replace the pads - which is good because you’ll probably be doing it more often than usual.
Luxury - something adding to pleasure or comfort but not absolutely necessary. The Tundra isn't just a luxury, it's an extravagant personal vehicle for consumers who are spoiled rotten. If a personal vehicle is not needed to haul cargo as a job, any truck is a luxury. What you are talking about is relative extravagance, with an arbitrary base as necessary, which it isn't. Sandy's Rivian is so absolutely unnecessary that it exceeds obscene. So is my +3000# 14 year old small SUV. Both of us could do is necessary with smaller vehicles. With different choices of where we live, much of our local travel wouldn't need a mitorized personal vehicle.
My first thought is no fucken way is this worth 77K! secondly, its barely a truck with the short bed, when did a 5' or 6' bed become normal? If you cant lay drywall or plywood down flat with the tailgate up its not a normal bed. The interior is hideous, I can't imagine having to live with that truck and keeping it clean, I would have to pay a few hundred buck every two months for detailing. OK, moving on , the buttons, have always been a problem with Toyota, its like they cant design the vehicles interior for big Americans, for the love of God, someone send them some American mannequins. I owned a 2006 Toyota Tundra and I would hit the emergency lights all the time, in fact every time my daughters would get into a fight in the truck you knew it because the flashers would be on. Just about everything in this truck is odd, again, who the F--K is in charge of designing this monstrosity? I can only imagine what his house looks like. They are going to go out of business unless they fire some of these designers, and FFS don't sell any vehicles in the rust belt with out undercoating the damn things, my 2006 rusted in half a year or two after the class action suit finalized.
it's quite interesting how in the US the term "luxury" is applied for 99% of premium products, like the Tundra, and way too often also anchored solely based on price - when none of the other aspects match the requirements for luxury to underline this point, the plastic material used to cover the air vents that is also on the door trim, the use of vinyl, all of these touch points are identical to a fully loaded Prius in the rest of the world, these descriptors are used much more accurate, you'd never hear a German describe an X5 as a luxury vehicle, or an Emirati associate Lexus with that segment - sure some countries impose heavy import duties, but perceived versus real luxury is still mostly attributed by the observer than the customer anyhow, love the nitpicking on stitching, and has this gone down hill overall in recent years ? I see 30y old BMWs or Mercs with more precise leather work than today's E-Class or Audis
Um, this video is about whether Toyota has built a luxury truck. I'd say ML has clearly demonstrated that this has a few nice touches, but isn't really luxurious, or even very well thought out.
@@jamesengland7461 that's precisely the point, the title/wrong application of the term luxury in this context, the question is whether the Tundra qualifies as a premium versus a commodity/mid-tier truck premium and luxury are vastly different segments, the Tundra it's ubiquitous, nowhere near the price range of luxury vehicles, none of its features are above par, and it isn't even marketed as a premium (let alone luxury) vehicle it's a constant struggle for marketers to verbally beat this interchangeable use out of clients 😂
@@jamesge8087 further, you're letting CERTAIN automakers limit and define luxury in your mind to what they're selling. That's not an objective definition.
@@jamesengland7461 lived in the US for a bit, had a RAM 3500, and been working in marketing for over a decade with brands from three continents there is an objective definition of luxury, and Toyota as a brand isn't meeting any of those requirements even if they sell a pick-up for 80k
A stupid comment from a 🤡!!!! People are already using those tundra for work, towing, overlanding, off-roading….,,… where is your hideous cybertruck!? Those tesla pavement princesses garbage things!
Another clear piece of evidence that says to me that Toyota have lost their way. They've failed to capitalise on their surprise success, the Prius; they could have continued to develop it and have produced a fully electric version a decade ago. Instead, right now, they are lobbying hard in the US to hold back cleaner vehicles and releasing garish and wasteful vehicles such as this. Even the modern Hilux, originally a synonym for a rugged truck, is a fragile showpiece rather than something that could be used and abused by a boorish Englishman (Clarkson).
I have one row of buttons underneath to left of column... Super annoying.. Eyes off the road and body shift to see three of them. Toyota also chose NOT to put adequate courtesy lighting in my 2019 well-equipped Rav4. The 3 minimal lamps that there are, are incandescent.. They cast no light. Instrumentation does not give you the tire pressure readings, just the "surprise" button to tell you one or more tires are 1 or more pounds low... or flat.... SURPRISE! I have my very first, and likely last Toyota. Oh, also the roof rack rails ( no rack or crossbars ) ...... LEAKS
Thanks for the summary of a $77K luxury hybred truck. Don't think Toyota will sell many of these. Ridiculous inside white color in a "truck." Agree that this won't be used much as a working truck.
I Beg to Differ, It's a Write Off of up to $25,000 . People will buy it put their Realtor magnet or other Business Sign which is not Construction or the type of work we Associate with With Work Trucks .
Honestly who cares about you!? Did anyone force you!? People are already enjoying their tundra, going off-road, overlanding, towing…… way more flexible and capable than any tesla.
Love Carl and enjoyed the vid, but the interior is irrelevant if the vehicle is obsolete. 16mpg from a 2022 ICE car is laughable. A hybrid, more so. What are Toyota thinking?
A stupid comment from a 🤡!!!! People are already using those tundra for work, towing, overlanding, off-roading….,,… where is your hideous cybertruck!? Those tesla pavement princesses garbage things!
A 30 years old Toyota hilux is still way more capable/valuable than any tesla including the non existent cybertruck and Toyota trucks all around the world have/are been used to move people and goods on very harsch environments where your garbage EV won’t survive.
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Imagine having Carl as a friend. Every time he sat in your car or on your sofa he'd be looking at the sewing and material folds.
Life of an engineer
and feeling your Material, what a creep.
@@ryandoyle4344 - CARL failed Engineering school, he a materials guy.
Now imagine having Sandy as a friend , he'd be going over your car with a Gap Gauge! Heh - Heh.
@@markplott4820 QUIT BEING SUCH A JERK!
Carl insight is unique and an original. Thanks Carl!
Every car company needs a Carl.
Or Munro and Associates to give them advice.
Then every car will be BORING.
"The average person would never notice that". Carl, You are not an average person. And that's a good thing :)
Carl is the Trim Influencer. I knew before even opening the show it would be him ;-) Cheers Carl for the education
Any video with Carl or Jordan are worth watching. Both come across as knowledgeable and genuine without sounding condescending or pompous.
The black on the rear of the front seat headrests males it look like a couple of motorcycle helmets peering at the back seat passengers. That said, It would be nicer for the rear seat passengers to have a dark color instead of a bright white glare in their faces from bright lights or sunlight. As to the other features, I like that front seat thigh extension.
I saw Daft Punk in them :D
Look up Toyotas T-HR3 robot
Like all truck manufacturers, the great majority of truck buyers buy them for "lifestyle purposes" ... meaning for looks.. not work... the largest profit margins are in the "lifestyle truck" segment... Luxury suv is not new and similar... it's crossing over into pickups... Landcruiser, G-Wagon, GX, LX, Landrover etc... people can now enjoy that lux in a pickup too 😃
thanks, appreciate the video. It seems that he is more objective on his recent reviews than his early appearances.
I appreciate seeing these videos on hybrids, but understand that not everyone who watches videos here likes them. Perhaps a focus on some of the best-in-segment or most-important hybrids could be a worthy strategy. Stuff like the Maverick (done already!!), but also perhaps vehicles like the Lexus ES300H or Camry Hybrid, both of which get fantastic fuel economy. A look into one of Volvos PHEV's, something like the S90 T8, could be pretty intriguing too, they do a lot of engineering stuff differently (like some new models using a leaf spring in the rear suspension); with very minimal yet well-built interiors.
Looks/features/driving feel are always an afterthought for Toyota buyers. Its always total cost of ownership and resale value.
Thank you!
You're welcome!
Thanks Carl, you know your stuff,Toyotas are considered " luxury " in the Philippines where everything imported are usually subject to 30% import duty, and also can depend on Engine displacement, the Rav 4 is considered " luxury".
Carl should be narrating audio books or at least a podcast.
Carl, you are amazing with your critique and knowledge. Outstanding presentation
If you allow me to add couple of points first beauty and/or perceived luxury is more of symmetry, proportionality, consistency and soft transition between shapes, surfaces and material. While can be subjective statement but holds true for most of the cases
From your presentation, don’t see or feel this on this vehicle. Different types and sizes of switches, very large protruding AC vents, boxy door design, choices of colours (such as white arm rests and headrests), centre consol edges, door arm rest leather wrapping ..etc.
Second point, the human machine interface seems to be overlooked here with what you called hidden or shelf bottons and placement of switches (not easily accessible or seen).
This vehicle screams “Look How I look”
Worked for 4 auto manufacturers for 17 years of my career. Many years ago rented 2 vehicles that challenged me when I went to pick them at night. The Prius, took me few minutes to figure out how to find and release the parking brakes at night; and RAV 4 where I had to use my phone light find out the mirror switches to be able to adjust.
You should also do episodes on the sound system
Good idea.
Nice
I don't think I ever want to present any product to Carl to review or I will be left crying at the end. The man will never give 5 stars to anything. Maybe not even 4 stars
I am the opposite, I’d love feedback from someone like Carl! Then I could go back and improve my product.
@@officialyasir Yes, but you mean after crying a lot
@@_jb_ 😂
Toyota…”Let’s loose our way”
Yes!!!
Carl, did you have ample head/roof separation? Maybe the camera angle made it appear to be minimal.
🤗👍THANKS CARL AND THE MUNRO TEAM … I know a lot of people like Toyotas …but IMHHO … I can think of 77,000 reasons not to get one😅 and that is just to start NOT INCLUDING MAINTENANCE AND PARTS …always at a premium 🙄
This truck doesn't say "i'm going to camping or I'm going to work" -
This truck says, "I'm dropping by the bank again, on my way to go golfing" --
It's a pet peeve for me when they take away buttons and hide them in some screen menu.
It is a truck! A truck from the world's largest sedan maker that is what you get. Biased? Can I be biased just because the very first car I drove in the US was a Ford Pinto? After all the Mustang is a horse too and my stigma is sort of not going away.
I loved how Carl nit pics stuffs that will become relevant as you sit and stare at the interior of your vehicle.
Toyotas are awesome vehicles, my 18-year-old will outlive me yet I feel they are slowly becoming like Honda and yesterdays success story.
I don't care what you use your vehicle for, everybody's arms will turn those arm rests a disgusting colour eventually.
You realise that those arm rest can be cleaned right!!!!!!!
@@carholic-sz3qv Exactly. People miss this.
If you need a step installed in order to climb into your car, perhaps consider a more appropriately sized car…?
Def not a work truck.. but I rather like the interior, buttons etc. I would never choose white thought. Also, there’s a hellava waiting list for these. No shortage of buyers.
Its a fashionable truck designed for fashion victims. Definitely not a workhorse.
@@vvattup very few here have actually owned and used a work truck.
What's the point of a truck that isn't a workhorse. Too big. Id take the maverick EV when it comes out.
@Greg Ramsey
The only buyers who are interested in the new Tundra are prior Tundra owners & Toyota devotees.
@@TheBjjones Maybe, but the same thing could be said about Tesla.
I have an F150 platinum with more features than a Lexus. Even heated rear seats! Brown leather also looks new. White is not a good color for a truck interior. I doubt this truck will be used for real work.
Lol…… which Lexus!? Don’t be funny mate!!!! All Lexus aren’t the same too!
@@carholic-sz3qv I have an 11 GS 350 AWD, both vehicles are very nice, but the Jury is out on which one is more Luxury. The Front suspension on that AWD sedan is set up like the truck (or vice versa). The transmission was shared with the Tundra, but the sedan has a special transfer case. There is a bumpout near the gas pedal for it.
Seat color layout...... Star Wars ? Cost-save is possibly more critical on low volume vehicles, but negligible on high volume.. efficiency of scale and all that. But amazing the perforation mismatch, that is so sloppy. Some consider it minor or negligible... but it reflects the corporate attitude on quality that I would expect follows through all aspects of the vehicle. "good 'nuff". Did someone steal trim pieces from the rear wheel-wells?
Trucks get dirty where the black is.
2005 Tacoma owner here: this Tundra interior is pretty grotesque. Way too many buttons, many hard to see. The screen looks like it is going to be sun glare city at that angle. Can you really open the storage bin without whacking your knees? This is an over the top soccer mom and Home Depot mulch retrieval vehicle, no way it is appropriate for work. And yes I agree Toyota brakes, even the four piston calipers on 4x4 six-bolt wheels are weak. The brakes are easier than usual to replace the pads - which is good because you’ll probably be doing it more often than usual.
This truck looks like Mad Max's...
Luxury - something adding to pleasure or comfort but not absolutely necessary. The Tundra isn't just a luxury, it's an extravagant personal vehicle for consumers who are spoiled rotten.
If a personal vehicle is not needed to haul cargo as a job, any truck is a luxury. What you are talking about is relative extravagance, with an arbitrary base as necessary, which it isn't. Sandy's Rivian is so absolutely unnecessary that it exceeds obscene. So is my +3000# 14 year old small SUV. Both of us could do is necessary with smaller vehicles. With different choices of where we live, much of our local travel wouldn't need a mitorized personal vehicle.
Now that these things are pointed out, I can’t un-see them! 🫣
My first thought is no fucken way is this worth 77K! secondly, its barely a truck with the short bed, when did a 5' or 6' bed become normal? If you cant lay drywall or plywood down flat with the tailgate up its not a normal bed. The interior is hideous, I can't imagine having to live with that truck and keeping it clean, I would have to pay a few hundred buck every two months for detailing. OK, moving on , the buttons, have always been a problem with Toyota, its like they cant design the vehicles interior for big Americans, for the love of God, someone send them some American mannequins. I owned a 2006 Toyota Tundra and I would hit the emergency lights all the time, in fact every time my daughters would get into a fight in the truck you knew it because the flashers would be on. Just about everything in this truck is odd, again, who the F--K is in charge of designing this monstrosity? I can only imagine what his house looks like. They are going to go out of business unless they fire some of these designers, and FFS don't sell any vehicles in the rust belt with out undercoating the damn things, my 2006 rusted in half a year or two after the class action suit finalized.
If you want something called a truck to be luxury, then give it a different name like cushy.
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Don't give hybrids any more of your time.
it's quite interesting how in the US the term "luxury" is applied for 99% of premium products, like the Tundra, and way too often also anchored solely based on price - when none of the other aspects match the requirements for luxury
to underline this point, the plastic material used to cover the air vents that is also on the door trim, the use of vinyl, all of these touch points are identical to a fully loaded Prius
in the rest of the world, these descriptors are used much more accurate, you'd never hear a German describe an X5 as a luxury vehicle, or an Emirati associate Lexus with that segment - sure some countries impose heavy import duties, but perceived versus real luxury is still mostly attributed by the observer than the customer
anyhow, love the nitpicking on stitching, and has this gone down hill overall in recent years ? I see 30y old BMWs or Mercs with more precise leather work than today's E-Class or Audis
Um, this video is about whether Toyota has built a luxury truck. I'd say ML has clearly demonstrated that this has a few nice touches, but isn't really luxurious, or even very well thought out.
@@jamesengland7461 that's precisely the point, the title/wrong application of the term luxury in this context, the question is whether the Tundra qualifies as a premium versus a commodity/mid-tier truck
premium and luxury are vastly different segments, the Tundra it's ubiquitous, nowhere near the price range of luxury vehicles, none of its features are above par, and it isn't even marketed as a premium (let alone luxury) vehicle
it's a constant struggle for marketers to verbally beat this interchangeable use out of clients 😂
@@jamesge8087 I'm guessing you're not American and don't understand the pickup truck.
@@jamesge8087 further, you're letting CERTAIN automakers limit and define luxury in your mind to what they're selling. That's not an objective definition.
@@jamesengland7461 lived in the US for a bit, had a RAM 3500, and been working in marketing for over a decade with brands from three continents
there is an objective definition of luxury, and Toyota as a brand isn't meeting any of those requirements even if they sell a pick-up for 80k
77k???
Don't care for Carl's delivery. Sandy is the worst public speaker. All the others are great!
MUNRO live - Hybrid vehicles are Completely irrelevant in 2022, what a waste.
A stupid comment from a 🤡!!!! People are already using those tundra for work, towing, overlanding, off-roading….,,… where is your hideous cybertruck!? Those tesla pavement princesses garbage things!
This same truck is going to be exported years later where it will service people for other decades to come.
I think this interior design is really lacking... bummer.
Why are these things so bloody big? This American habit is really weird.
just my opinion but this is the ugliest tundra ever made.
Another clear piece of evidence that says to me that Toyota have lost their way. They've failed to capitalise on their surprise success, the Prius; they could have continued to develop it and have produced a fully electric version a decade ago. Instead, right now, they are lobbying hard in the US to hold back cleaner vehicles and releasing garish and wasteful vehicles such as this. Even the modern Hilux, originally a synonym for a rugged truck, is a fragile showpiece rather than something that could be used and abused by a boorish Englishman (Clarkson).
I have one row of buttons underneath to left of column... Super annoying.. Eyes off the road and body shift to see three of them. Toyota also chose NOT to put adequate courtesy lighting in my 2019 well-equipped Rav4. The 3 minimal lamps that there are, are incandescent.. They cast no light. Instrumentation does not give you the tire pressure readings, just the "surprise" button to tell you one or more tires are 1 or more pounds low... or flat.... SURPRISE! I have my very first, and likely last Toyota. Oh, also the roof rack rails ( no rack or crossbars ) ...... LEAKS
Thanks for the summary of a $77K luxury hybred truck. Don't think Toyota will sell many of these. Ridiculous inside white color in a "truck." Agree that this won't be used much as a working truck.
Lol…… Toyota is already selling a lot of those
I Beg to Differ, It's a Write Off of up to $25,000 . People will buy it put their Realtor magnet or other Business Sign which is not Construction or the type of work we Associate with With Work Trucks .
Ugly interior. Why is a thing that ISN'T a glovebox (or anything else) better if it looks like old luggage?
I’m still waiting for my cybertruck. Toyota didn’t changed my mind. Too many buttons same old tech. No thanks i want the latest tech in my vehicle
Honestly who cares about you!? Did anyone force you!? People are already enjoying their tundra, going off-road, overlanding, towing…… way more flexible and capable than any tesla.
Love Carl and enjoyed the vid, but the interior is irrelevant if the vehicle is obsolete. 16mpg from a 2022 ICE car is laughable. A hybrid, more so. What are Toyota thinking?
A stupid comment from a 🤡!!!! People are already using those tundra for work, towing, overlanding, off-roading….,,… where is your hideous cybertruck!? Those tesla pavement princesses garbage things!
A 30 years old Toyota hilux is still way more capable/valuable than any tesla including the non existent cybertruck and Toyota trucks all around the world have/are been used to move people and goods on very harsch environments where your garbage EV won’t survive.
Sorry guys... As a super fan I can't watch this fossil garbage...
You do know that multiple tundras have made it to 1,000,000 miles right?
Not sure what this review was about.
not interested...
In Carl, the truck, the video, or all three?
Yet here you are