Report: Toyota Is Seriously Considering a New Mini Pickup Truck to Battle the Maverick and the Santa Cruz

Ought to Toyota construct a brand new mini-truck to battle towards the Ford Maverick and the Hyundai Santa Cruz? We expect so, and up to date experiences counsel that Toyota is critically contemplating it. Listed here are all the newest particulars.

Here’s a report by Engine Trend that foreshadows a brand new automobile that Toyota is contemplating. Bob Carter, government vp of gross sales for Toyota Motor North America mentioned the next: “One of many areas we’re taking a look at—that will not be short-term—is the place the compact pickup truck goes. You’ve Santa Cruz and Maverick in the marketplace, and it is going to be fascinating to see Scout. As we speak, we have now the market rather well lined with Tacoma, however that [a compact pickup] might be a chance and one thing we proceed to have a look at,” Carter mentioned.

Carter calls out the Santa Cruz and Maverick by identify, and he additionally mentions the VW Scout. Volkswagen stunned us by saying a deliberate return of the Scout model as an all-electric pickup truck and SUV. The VW Scout is presently being deliberate as a 2026 mannequin, and (judging by Carter’s feedback) a doable new Toyota mini-truck might be deliberate in an analogous timeframe. That is to say, do not anticipate it to come back in a 12 months or two. There may be additionally a chance of it being all-electric.

Tell us within the feedback beneath. What would you wish to see in a Toyota mini pickup truck? Ought to it seem like a RAV4 pickup truck, or a Corolla Cross pickup, or one thing fully distinctive?

Within the meantime, here’s a private take a look at the 2023 Toyota Tacoma.