Problem, is Toyota had already designed the truck and signed off the body well before that point. Meaning the 2021 Land Cruiser became a 2022 model, 2021 Tundra redesign became a 2022 model. Sometime during 2019, after the 780B program's 2018 design freeze (designer's point of no return), all TNGA-F vehicles were subject to delays in a domino effect.
For Toyota, they had a similar timeline planned and fell behind EXTREMELY. Took us 37 months from final design to showroom at the end of 2020. Final styling of this truck from what I learned, rounded up toward the end of 2017.Ībout the same time, 2021 Ford F-150 final design was photographed and approved on Novemat 4:07 PM in Dearborn, MI (have concrete proof of mine).īeat the new Tundra to market with a half-ton twin-turbo hybrid, launching in December 2020. This vehicle, developed under 780B (early pseudo-code 954A) for half a decade now, was set for August 2020 start of production at TMMTX, outside of San Antonio for 2021 model year. This has become their modus operandi, to ensure quality. Time wise, Toyota on these lead TNGA-F vehicles, had very high lead times, which allegedly required final design work to be completed 3 years ahead of intended launch. It is mostly Tacoma and 4Runner they borrowed from. Unfortunately, I often keep seeing a lot of unfair comparisons on the 2022 Tundra to other trucks out there, which imply Toyota outright copied their competition and find it to be very lazy thinking.
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