1115: come on? This is akin to f*ckin’ your cousin.

wow this is such a ridgeline rip.

lame.

Holy ****, that front is the ugliest I have seen (on par with the Aztec)

I hope this thing goes into production

Gee what a perfect world…everybody will soon be driving a Toyota. A Toyota in every driveway. **** that! I now hate Toyota more. This abortion looks like a rat.

Styling is subjective and this is a freakin concept, but I’d have to say the idea of comfort and flexible utility is true to the Toyota appliance philosophy. Maybe there is a market for such a vehicle.

Ridgeline ripoff with Impreza taillights. Why? Toyota is the Microsoft of the automotive world: hyper successful but with no original ideas.

Toyota is my idol. Imagine making that much profit and that much control over global market…

Ripping off the Ridgeline, which in turn, ripped off the Avalanche.

One thing toyota does better than anyone else is build trucks………so even though this concept looks like **** they know what they are doing and willl continue to dominate. Gotta love the japanese!

One thing toyota does better than anyone else is build trucks………so even though this concept looks like **** they know what they are doing and willl continue to dominate. Gotta love the japanese!

I like this truck See its basically a battle between Honda and Toyota The Americans dont even count anymore lol
I think this looks slightly better than the Ridgeline but we will have to wait until the redesign of the Element and Ridgeline
Honda already won the Civoc Corolla battle
This is great !

The A-BAT huh?

As in, “I’d like to take A-BAT to this ugly POS?”

OOHHHH YEEEAAAAAA !!!!

That Ridgeline is selling so much, lets copy it.

Sometime Toyota thinks like GM and Ford.

recipe for a japaneese truck:
copy anything american and make it ugly and ****ty.

Those lines will test the theory that there is one born every minute.

serioulsy its a civic meets ridgeline, with gm`s wonderful midgate design, gotta love the real version…..the avalanch.

Metro-sex-less rejoice-
Look – it can carry 4 pansies.

1st the LPGA Sport-trac then the Honda Pantyliner, now this abomination. Maybe the republicans are right about the gays taking over the country?

Enough of the homophobic slurs, this is trying to appeal to young, educated, adventurous people…I like it.

Ever notice how rest area/bathroom parking lots look like Honda “Truck” dealerships?

Did you mean pubescent, being trained, sexually confused people.

by “adventurous” – do you mean going to the movies at midnight?

^ with 2 guys and a bucket of lube.

The flexible midgate concept is a direct ripoff of the idea that originated on Chevrolet’s Avalanche. Since Honda copied it, I guess it was only a matter of time before Toyota followed suit. If this vehicle becomes a production reality, I think it should be assigned to the Scion division. Toyota’s lineup is already stuffed to the gills and too dowdy for this vehicle and its copycat innovative features.

Fuglied up Ridgeline with a Subbie/Mazda rear end cut up and slapped on the back of a truck bed. If they were shooting for uglier than the Avalanche, they got it.

Even with a hybrid powertrain, wouldn’t this be too heavy to get 40mpg? I thought Toyota was dedicated to being green? Wait, they’re just out for profit like any other automaker? Hmm, better tell that to the circle-jerkers.

Oh, and we all know how trucks with Toyota turn out *coughTurdracough*

US Toyota sucks major ****.

A damn sight prettier than the Ridgeline for sure.

Haha 1115. I didn’t realize you were this funny

recipe for a japaneese truck:
copy anything american and make it ugly and ****ty.
Comment by CTS DRIVER, posted on December28 at 10:13 am

Lol this is the basic recipe for all foreign cars in the US dude. All are much, much uglier and useless than their foreign counterparts. Japanese trucks that are made for the japanese market are much, much, much better than the ones in the US market. They look nicer and have comparatively higher quality. This is the same with the Camry and Accords and all other cars that 1115 is always constantly and pointlessly arguing about and also with Euro Fords.

I’m pretty sure Chevy has a patent on the Avalanche midgate, too bad Toyota can’t come up with their own ideas. The Avalanche is a good looking and reliable truck, these are words you can no longer use to describe a modern Toyota.

I’m really not sure what to think of this bloated looking thing. I don’t mind the exterior, besides for the window panes, the stupid headlights, the oversized wheels, the disgustingly tall bed height, and the fact Toyota isn’t thinking about the people who uses these vehicles (when I say this, I mean the high bed, most likely delicate interior, huge wheels, things a contractor, or even a once a week gardener, does not want). And as I mentioned the interior I see as a huge problem; all the presumably plastic panels, the yellow crap that looks like camoflauge only fit for… a Toyota! Seriously, look at the edges of the fabric, which look like someone just stretched it over an existing dash. I most specifically say this because of the vent panels, which look like they were just covered up, and the fact there’s no crease in the plastic around this fabric (does there need to be one? No, but it looks like it was purpose built for that fabric, in that interior).

I do like the overall design of the truck. The short hood, the… well, actually looking back, that’s the only thing that I see that would be useful on a large truck.

But you know what? Deep down inside… I have to look back and forth in between Dodge Rampage pictures, and this (poser), and notice that it’s just a carbon copy. Please everybody, at the same time be honest with a straight face and tell me that Honda and Toyota have a unique design on their hands. I have to say, I like it, but I would go for more traditional trucks first hand, or Avalanche, because I can testify first hand that it’s a useful truck. Would I consider the Dodge Rampage more useful than this? More so than this maybe.

LP640- True, but about the Japanese market… Personally, I know Mitsubishi can make a damn good flat nose truck, and Mazda has a nice looking international truck, but the Japanese truck market is nothing like the United States. They don’t have the same mid-large size truck market, to the same kind of people as Americans do.

tripleonefive- You are nothing but hilarious.

If I worked for Honda, I’d be laughing my ass off at this one. This totally looks like a redesigned Ridgeline, unbelievable…. is the Ridgeline even selling well enough that Toyota needs to make one? Give it a rest Toyota.

This could well be one of the most ugliest things I have seen and believe me, my standards drop after a few beers. The fact that 1115 likes it tells me all I need to know. Gosh, thats breathtakingly ugly. Now I realise why Toyota play it safe all the time, cos when they try and be different, this is the result.

Toyota should build this as a Scion.. or better yet, donate it to Subaru as their next Baja/Brat! Hell, slap a few jump seats behind the midgate and they’re all set! It already has the Impreza taillights!

what a great idea… let’s copy the next generation ridgeline before it comes out.

HORRID.

Useless, pointless, ugly ****.

toyota must be getting really desperate to rip off Honda. What a joke.

Only a queer butt rapist would drive this POS excuse for a car…which is why I agree with zoomzoomr that this should be badged as a Scion.

What good is a truck that can’t make a simple trip to the hardware store without hanging the tailgate?

The asians can – blur the lines – all they want to but this is not a truck. A truck is a truck. And American men laugh at these piss puddles.

Since when is something designed on a mini van chassis considered a ‘truck’?(Ridgeline)

fuking retarded do they expect for someone to buy that retarded peice of ****

Since the mini-van was designed on a car chassis.

This has nothing on the Ridgeline, which in turn is quite gay itself.

However, if they stretched a roof over the pickup bed and made better rear seats, they would have a decent formal SUV that would be a contender for someone shopping around for an H3, Murano, CX-9, etc… That’s a very lucrative market.

I actually like this as far as nonfunctional pickups go. The Crodgeline looks like shït trying to be tough, whereas this just looks different and cool somehow.

Still has the visibility of a blind retard, though.

Appalling

I actually think that this makes Ridgeline look ok. Well, perhaps I am jaded towards Honda, but I do think that Ridgeline is ugly and this is even uglier, although definitely it is a flattery to Ridgeline by Toyota.

autonut – you mean the Ridgeline and A-BAT (and Tundra) are a testament to the [lack of] ability of the Japanese to make trucks? I agree. I think they should just stick to kei cars

Just plain ugly, even uglier than the Ridgeline. If Toyota put a small diesel in the Tacoma, I’d buy it tomorrow.

As for Japanese ability to make trucks, Toyota has been making jeep eaters for decades (land cruisers prior to 1985) and the Tacoma is a real truck (not like these car/truck things). If you’ve never taken the Tacoma or the older landcruisers on 4X4 runs you don’t have a clue what you’re talking about when you boneheads say the Japanese can’t make trucks.

I don’t love the detailing, but its nice to see an idea of the future of truck design. All the chat about contractor’s and load-carrying is a waste of time. Toyotay already offer the Tundra for that market. This is a leisure product and to my mind it’s only competition would be the Avalanche or Ridgeline.

The short bonnet and sloping windscreen are original and might be very appealing if they weren’t paired with the Aztec-esque angular styling. The high bonnet and big wheels are also appealingly butch and I could imagine this creating a niche for itself in between the H3 and Avalanche, especially if it could be ordered from the dealer with bespoke options such as tailgate tents, coolboxes, bike carriers etc, all designed to clip into those fixing points in the rear bed.

Please more updates! Im dying here, I cant get enough of the A-BAT

Hmmmmmm, trying to figure out what this will be. Perhaps:

1) An FJ-Cruiser pick-up?

2) The next generation Tacoma?

3) A small pickup, smaller than Tacoma. Remember Scion was supposedly going to come out with an xP pickup? (2012)

Hmmm, still wondering what this will turn into.

cardesigner is 100% right

rms492 – it will turn into something ugly. extremely ugly.

The new pictures even make me think it’s more repulsing and disgusting.

It’s so huge, but hell that bed must be… 1 foot deep? I would consider that with the new design, it’s not going to have the same aerodynamics as most trucks. If anybody has realized it or not, most trucks don’t create a lot of drag because of the bed and tailgate, and I’m curious with the change with the C pillars and roofline.

That’s really interesting, they put a coffee mug in the tailgate… I wonder how that will function when I have to load the vehicle with loads of bricks, two by fours or when I step on the thing… SLIP! Lawsuit right there, so I’m anxious to buy one

But seriously, if any of you consider this a preview of future trucks, you have got to be kidding. It’s dysfunctional as a Peel P40 with a bed strapped onto it and a fifth wheel. And it’s a total, blatant copy of Dodge’s Rampage, which was much more functional and better aimed. Seriously, just take a second and pull your heads out of your asses, and look at the front grill, very much like Dodge. The overall profile, if you overlay two images of the Dodge Rampage and this thing, they look almost identical, with the exception of this thing having more “carved out” looks to it.

Axehead- I’m not going to argue this over and over, because I’ve driven/ been driven in both on soft as well as rough terrain, and I can say I’d take a Jeep Wrangler over a Landcruiser. There’s many reasons why, but the largest are
-Price
-Capabilities (yes, the Land Cruiser is capable, but it does not have great overhangs, longer wheelbase, heavier, no removable mainstream top or doors like the Wrangler, and has become slightly softer over the years)
-Options (it has more interior compliant options, but concerning off road options it lags behind the Wrangler).
-Customization (the Wrangler has a HUGE aftermarket).
-Room. This is part opinion based, but the Wrangler has huge amounts of room, and the Land Cruiser does too, but the Wrangler uses that room in different ways and in my opinion, more efficiently.
-Miles per gallon and engine options.

Really, it’s more about your needs, because while the Jeep Wrangler is better off road and uses it’s space better, the Land Cruiser is more comfortable on the road. Now, I noticed you said before 1985, but come one, you can’t be honest and say that the Land Cruiser was not copying the Willy’s Jeep. It’s so blatant, every exterior, and even the interior in some ways is eerily similar to each other.

Got Handling?- I understand what your saying about usability, but this thing must have a taller bed than the Chevrolet Avalanche or Ford Sport Track, and yet it’s maybe a foot and a few inches deep! And despite the mini-size bed, the interior looks to be smaller than Avalanche or Sport Trac, especially rear leg room which is the most important aspect of these vehicles.

Buck tooth, crossed eyed devil! More Toyota Shame. Search Toyota Shame for more info.

Similar to the FTX concept of a few years back (2004), including the interior. Not a lot of innovation here – move on.

This is what happened when the Isuzu Vehicross mates with the Pontiac Aztec! Hideous!

Toyota, two uglys don’t make a beauty!

At first I did not like it. But it grows on you.
I don’t think it looks anything like a Honda Ridgeline.
It’s much sportier looking & clearly smaller.
It’s closer to the Subaru Baha.
Let’s hope the milage it gets makes it worth the $$$.