MAXimum i-FORCE! The Next Generation Toyota Tacoma is Coming Soon!
PLANO, Texas (April 4, 2023) – The best-selling midsize pick-up in America is all-new for 2024 with electrifying i-FORCE MAX performance.
Stay tuned for updates on the Tacoma’s incredible new design and features.
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Thank you for this info. The Canadian International Auto Show is usually in February every year... I hope they can squeeze in the 4runner in there!
Most definitely, I hope it holds up, as they are not always so consistent with launch dates anymore, which can affect debut dates as well.
It's hard to believe that we're in Q2 of 2023 already. When you think about it, January 2024 is not a long ways off...
Surprising that the Toyota Pressroom hasn't had anything about a Tacoma announcement tomorrow (4/4). The NY Auto Show press days are on 4/5 and 4/6, but Toyota isn't scheduled to make any announcements, according to their website.
Media and Press - New York International Auto Show
Maybe it'll just be another teaser? Or the reveal of the date for the reveal? Or Toyota just playing with everyone with that license plate in the photo?
In any case, I'm back to ordering a bZ4X and going full EV until the next 4Runner tempts me.
The thing about it is, I remember back in February (14th) being told roughly verbatim, "So...what are you guys doing with the Ranger? We'll be making a press announcement on the new Tacoma the first week of April! Can't tell ya the exact date! Are you guys gonna beat us to it on the Ranger?"
That was our key conversation at a restaurant in Troy, MI during a double date and my spouse immediately silenced me on that subject (regarding Ranger). I've never seen her again, but if I wanted to find her again, I could. Just haven't really. I took the date and ran with it of course.
Back then, being caught up in 2-3 weeks (Jan-Feb) of predicting Toyota's reveal trajectory for this year, I interpreted this current week as similar to the 2023 Corolla GR in Q1 2022 (revealed April 1st). Fill in the blanks essentially.
She didn't necessarily say, we'll have a big photo spread and full reveal. Some online stranger has another
date, which my cousin shared with me recently.
Maybe that one has more concreteness to it? IDK, just sharing, as it might not be fact. Probably is unfortunately.
Late June 2023, guess we'll see.
Hopefully it's revealed by Jan 2024 but doesn't that seem a bit early? The Tundra was Sept for a Nov delivery. The Tacoma is supposed to be released tomorrow for fall delivery. I would love to see it in January as I plan on ordering a 2024 4Runner for spring delivery but if the 6th gen is amazing I might cancel that and get a 2025. I just hope there is time to see the 6th gen but buy a 5th gen.
Point is understood on that short gap for the Tundra, but that isn't the standard gap for reveal vs launch on most Toyotas.
The 2023 Sequoia was revealed January 25, 2022 and barely launched in October 2022, after the first production units rolled off on
September 21st (production began in August).
Like the Sequoia in Jan 2022 and Grand Highlander this past February (July/Aug 2023 launch), the 2025 4Runner is intended as the first reveal of 2024 against September 2024 deliveries. Might be Jan or Feb.
It also wasn't really true in terms of November 2021 deliveries for the 2022 Tundra.
The first production 2022 Tundra didn't even leave the factory to be shipped until December?
I definitely recall launch being mid-late December 2021 (in very sparse volume), which I learned to be true as early as September 2019. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, Toyota fought like hell to force that same date through, resulting in quality issues. They were about to not launch the truck until early 2022, but forced themselves to keep the "damn date" .
Bear in mind that the final Tundra launch date was originally set pre-pandemic, in mid-2019. As late as March 2019, the Tundra was a 2021 MY. They started development in early 2015 under 780B Program, once called 954A.
Ultimately, Tundra SOP in October/Nov 2021 was VERY rough and due to COVID, they revealed it so close to on sale date in December.
Couldn't do the big auto press gatherings they wanted in early-mid 2021. Easier by September. Ditto for the 2 year delayed James Bond "No Time To Die" movie, which debuted over 1 week later as well.
i-ForceMax versions were supposed to launch at the same time originally, but during pre-reveal development in 2020, hybrid Tundra got delayed again to March/April 2022. Regular Tundra arrived in December 2021, fighting like hell to get it done.
The hybrid was a major reason the redesign fell behind 1 MY originally, as in 2019 they wanted to launch all Tundra variants at the same time and not stagger them. Same reasoning happened with the 6G 4Runner, according to source
The i-ForceMax TTV6 proved challenging (just like 2021 Sienna) apparently to meet a Q4 2020 release date, so the whole redesign got delayed 1 year to Q4 2021.
Like a domino effect, many Toyota TNGA-F redesign delays followed. The Land Cruiser 300 was another domino effect contributor next to the Tundra, when its own hybrid system met similar issues too and ultimately didn't even arrive as planned. Plus some 300 restyling work ordered by Akio Toyoda in 2017-18 (production began spring 2021). 300 hybrid is now mid-cycle, sometime late next year alongside LX 700h.
The Tacoma isn't necessarily fall 2023. It is supposed to enter production at the very earliest, November 1st. I've said this several times, based on 3rd party SOP charts. Prior to that, most industry chatter had it listed for December 1, 2023 SOP since Q3 of 2021 and so have Toyota Motor North America. November 2023 SOP is suspicious to me, yet to be 100%.
From mid-2019 to Q3 of 2021, '24 Tacoma was listed as August 2023 SOP, late September '23 launch. Before mid-2019 domino delays, it was a 2023 model year redesign in August 2022.
No one will see a 2024 Tacoma in any moderate volume, let alone sufficient national volume, until early 2024. That's not my speculation necessarily, but
good faith insight via Toyota. (Just don't ask about powertrains or they'll trick or ghost you.)
A reveal for the 2025 4Runner in late January is reasonable per Toyota MO, in observing many recent reveals. They'll be revealing the next Camry this fall, which is a 2025 model. Before that, 2024* Land Cruiser.
*Model Year can be altered very easily
I just subscribed to their YouTube feed in case they live stream the reveal as rumored.
Toyota USA - YouTube
SMH, unfortunately TexFR I think I should've asked my source on that reveal date more questions. I expected a full reveal, although she didn't even say that herself. She coyly asked about the Ranger and then bragged about the Tacoma press announcement the first week of April.
Looks like "press announcement" was more correct than what I even expected. Another flop on my end. SMH.
I can see why they'd do this though, based on the Job 1 date being at the very end of the year.
My question is though, why is Toyota copying the moniker for the V35A-FTS turbo hybrid of iForceMax for a likely much lesser T24A-FTS Hybrid?
Doesn't make sense to me, other than also being a pickup. Unless, they are using the same engine? Highly unlikely. We'll see.
