Toyota Improves 2011 Tundra

When it debuted a few years ago, it didn’t take long for the latest Tundra’s bandwagon to find itself ridiculously overladen. A favourite of critics and opinionated bloggers, the bigger, better Tundra was billed as nothing short of the second coming within the truck market, set to dethrone the F-150 and singlehandedly slay the surviving Silverado and Ram 1500s.

And, just a few months later, the Tundra’s bandwagon found itself emptying faster than the Canuck’s bandwagon after a solid second-round routing that’s marked their recent years’ playoff careers. However, Toyota is looking to stem the flow with this recently announced augmentation of the big truck’s powertrain options. Although quite popular, the V8 engines will now be joined by a new, more powerful V6 that boasts 270 horsepower and 278 pound feet of torque. Thanks largely in part to the installation of the company’s variable valve timing system, these new figures should be joined by a new, lower fuel economy figure that should be the V6’s hallmark.