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Chris Senior Enthusiast

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Well I can pull a locomotive with my... well never mind I wouldn't even want to try that. Some people do crazy sheet. Hell look at the strong man competitions. But hell I don't like what Toyota did with that commercial. I wonder if they had people try overloading yet.

 

It's just like Ford with the Raptor. It's supposedly an off road machine, but when the owners use it as such, Ford doesn't want to honor the warranty on the truck because the customer was out in the dunes with it.

 

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Morgan1986 Senior Enthusiast

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Well everyone has made ads that are stupid in my opinion. Hell you even see Gm makes ads where there taking there 1500s and running them like shiat Thur mud and dirt and bumps on a brand new truck that has not much ground clearance. Let people run there toyotas over weight and break down. GM or Ford or dodge can easily counter the ad by showing stats of there vehicles like payload and gross vehicle weight or towing capabilities. I dont know why they dont advertise more about a trucks capabilities what they are on paper more on the ads .

brainpause Enthusiast

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I'm still impressed that something didn't break, even if it was just a few inches. C'mon! 280,000 pounds!

MikeNH Senior Enthusiast

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With no tongue weight it really isn't all that impressive from a capability standpoint- the crazy body builder types have pulled a 747 by themselves before and those can weigh 250,000 lbs fully loaded.

 

 

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doverarjim Senior Enthusiast

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That was my point, in this. Toy paid a big dollar amount to hook their truck to the shuttle and film it for comercials. It suprised me at how long it took from when this happened until I saw it on TV. Yes it was a lot of weight but look at all the powered wheels it was setting on. I think that my old riding lawn mower could have moved it, but I don't think it could ever stop it!!! :jester:

tobias Senior Enthusiast

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That was my point, in this. Toy paid a big dollar amount to hook their truck to the shuttle and film it for comercials. It suprised me at how long it took from when this happened until I saw it on TV. Yes it was a lot of weight but look at all the powered wheels it was setting on. I think that my old riding lawn mower could have moved it, but I don't think it could ever stop it!!! :jester:

 

 

The Tundra provided 100% of the towing power. There was no help.

BlackZ71Silverado Senior Enthusiast

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That's good marketing on their part IMO.........Fact is how often do you actually see a Tundra tow anything? I know all summer at the race tracks I haven't EVER noticed a Tundra with a hauler hooked to it. Mostly Chevy and Ford with the occasional Ram every couple weeks. Nothing against the Tundra but there is a reason people buy a certain make to haul their loads.

MikeNH Senior Enthusiast

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My parents friends had a previous gen Tundra to tow their RV. They traded it for a Superduty after a few years, still a gasser but I'm sure it took the load much better.

StinkyCheese Senior Enthusiast

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Didn't they have an advertisement where they gave an older gentleman a truck and he flat out said he overloaded it numerous times and it kept going? Why would you brag about overloading numerous times?

 

If that was towards me, I overloaded by a lot once because I was in a pinch.

 

To the OP: What is it Toyota finally did?

 

My guess is over the top advertising/bragging

 

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No I was talking about the ad you only did it once. A lot of people have probably overloaded their vehicles once, the smart ones learned from their mistakes and didn't do it again.

SarahsGMC Senior Enthusiast

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Well I can pull a locomotive with my... well never mind I wouldn't even want to try that. Some people do crazy sheet. Hell look at the strong man competitions. But hell I don't like what Toyota did with that commercial. I wonder if they had people try overloading yet.

 

It's just like Ford with the Raptor. It's supposedly an off road machine, but when the owners use it as such, Ford doesn't want to honor the warranty on the truck because the customer was out in the dunes with it.

 

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i love watching people break their raptors on the dunes :lol:

scz71864 Enthusiast

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most of our trucks can move that weight and more as long as it had wheels on it. not very impressive. to the un trained it seems like a lot

Chris Senior Enthusiast

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But as mentioned, there was NO tongue weight on that trailer so it could be movable by a half ton

tobias Senior Enthusiast

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Some of you guys clearly don't get the point of marketing. :lol:

 

Of course this was not a real-world scenario. Of course this was not practical. It's intended to show a truck do something most people (read: your average American truck buyer) would not have ever believed it could do under any circumstances. All manufacturers do it, period.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSpAHgGhLk4

DanMan_S Enthusiast

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most of our trucks can move that weight and more as long as it had wheels on it. not very impressive. to the un trained it seems like a lot

 

 

The Tundra's chief engineer flat out said that any truck making roughly 400 lbft of torque could have towed it anyhow:

 

http://ca.jalopnik.c...d-space-shuttle

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