For Toyota's body on frame vehicles, gone are the naturally aspirated V8 and V6, and in are the Hybrid MAX inline 4 cylinder turbo and V6 turbo.
While Toyota has been building hybrid and V6 forever, the Hybrid MAX and V6 Turbo are relatively new engines / drivetrains.
So how do these new drivetrains stack up to the older drivetrains? In terms of performance? In terms of reliability and resilience? In terms of maintenance?
Also, there are tons of V8 and V6 Toyota's with snorkels going in the shallow water. Can a Hybrid Max handle such terrain, given it has a hybrid battery?
So how do these new drivetrains stack up to the older drivetrains? I
That won't be known for several more years unless someone here has a a working crystal ball.
Also, there are tons of V8 and V6 Toyota's with snorkels going in the shallow water. Can a Hybrid Max handle such terrain, given it has a hybrid battery?
I wouldn't count on it unless it has been definitively proven otherwise. Immersion in water and batteries don't mix well.
Resilience? They only started selling it a couple of years ago.
The V6 Turbo engines have been very problematical, with Toyota having to replace literally a hundred thousand of them.
https://www.thedrive.com/news/we-finally-know-why-the-toyota-tundra-v6-keeps-self-destructing
@glen_stet you're right , Toyota did make a hybrid Tundra marketed as "i-Force Max", with a hybridized version of the V35A-FTS twin turbo V6 engine (yes, the ones that are blowing up with as little as 25k miles on them, due to debris in the engine from the manufacturing process destroying the bearings.) However, the hybrid versions are unaffected by the problem. They are not being recalled, so likely they were being produces on a different assembly line.