Would You Drive This? 1997 Toyota T100 Xtracab SR5

Before the Tundra, there was the T100.

By the late 1980s, Toyota had established itself as the maker of tough, reliable compact trucks. It's "pickup", Hilux, and 4Runner models were very popular in the US, but they couldn't touch the sales of the full sized trucks like the Chevrolet C/K series or Ford F series.

So Toyota took their pickup chassis and stretched it, widened it, and give it a little bit bigger cab. The end result was the 1992 T100....Toyota's first full sized pickup truck.

The T100 wasn't a very big sales success. It was criticized for being much smaller, slower, and less capable than domestic full sized trucks. The truck's top engine was a 3.0L V6 engine with about 150 horsepower; later updated with a 3.4L V6 engine with about 160 horsepower. 0-60 came in about 11 seconds with the V6. You probably didn't want the 4 cylinder option offered.

What Toyota did offer was the same reliability and practicality that Toyota truck buyers liked in their compact vehicles, but in a slightly larger package.

Would You Drive This? 1997 Toyota T100 Pickup









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