Toyota's Hybrid Pickup and SUV...pictures here!

[Dover]

Should be out toward the end of this year. Can't WAIT to test drive one. Details and more pictures of the FTX pickup here: http://pressroom.toyota.com/photo_library/display_release.html?id=2004ftx_r





And the Highlander SUV
Details and lots more pictures here: http://pressroom.toyota.com/photo_library/display_release.html?id=2005highlander_r

[benh57]

1. ew

Yuck. I still want a prius. (the SUV doesn't look so bad.. but that truck.. yech)

[Diego360]

2. Toyota - Made in America!

A plant in Indiana and a new one being built in Texas. A rare piece of good news in our outsourcing times.

Plus my Tundra is the best built truck I've ever owned.

[Dover]

3. I read Toyota had their best year EVER last year

Successful sales on several models.

[tridim]

4. Is it a pickup truck or a space craft?

Close the pod bay door HAL, that interior is hideous.

I can only assume it's just a prototype.

[Diego360]

5. That interior

looks like it should have Geordi and Wes Crusher in the two front seats.

[Dover]

6. And then there is the Lexus Luxury Hybrid

http://pressroom.toyota.com/photo_library/display_release.html?id=2004rx400h_r

[WatchWhatISay]

9. Pinto!

That's what that top photo reminds me of.

[Dover]

7. The new and improved 2004 Prius....N. American Car of the Year

http://pressroom.toyota.com/photo_library/display_release.html?id=20040104f

[Rabrrrrrr]

8. Oh, good, a nice big of chunk of wood/plastic/metal

to make sure that, in case of a side-hit collision, either the passenger or the driver will be pushed into it and severed.

Beautiful engineering.

On a different tack: The SUV is quite nice looking - I like it. The pickup, though, looks like some failed 1970s t-shirt chopped-up pickup cartoon design that might have had the words "Keep on Truckin'!" underneath it, and I can just picture unwashed superthin dope-addicted gearheads with huge sideburns and belt-buckles with their initials wearing that t-shirt. That's a seriously ugly truck just because it's so close to that tactless 1970s "hot rod" and/or "muscle car" aesthetic.

BUT - let me say this about the pickup - the interior, apart from that obviously dangerous body-severing middle panel, IS pretty cool looking, and not just because it looks like the bridge of the Enterprise-D.

[Zech Marquis]

10. that FTX looks cool!

very, very sleek looking...now these aren't out yet, so I can;t wait to see one in person..and one in jet black :evilgrin:

[arwalden]

11. "Brat" and "El Camino" Come To Mind

[mdmc]

12. time to replace the shaggin wagon?

[curse10]

13. Man, that's ugly

and completely gross. Who needs a fucking vehicle that large?

[GOPisEvil]

14. OK - that truck thing is FUGLY!!!

The Highlander looks good, as does the Prius. :-)

[Kamika]

15. Toyota hybrid looks incredible

Damn like 3 ppl (4 kids) in the backseat and still a pickup

[LynneSin]

16. Larry David drives a Prius on "Curb Your Enthusiam"

That's a great endorsement for the Toyota. My next vehicle will be a hybrid. It's time I start helping out mother earth a bit!!

[HuckleB]

17. Why start with a full-size pick-up?

Who needs a full-size pick-up unless you need it for work? V-6 fuel efficiency ain't gonna put me in a truck that size.

And, yeah, it's butt ugly.

[Dover]

18. I still love Honda's Insight...sigh....but just too small for my needs.

[Dover]

19. The Ford Escape hybrid is coming out this year too.