Saw it and made contact with the Toyota staff (1 Viewer)

[YngTLCOwner]

Woody and everyone else,
If I am able to obtain the brochure I will make sure to scan it and get it on the site somehow. If anything I will email you and get them to you and you can post them however that is needed.

Steve

 

[Dave E]

I'd love to see the pics you took. Can you post up or email to woody or sumtin?

Dave

 

[Gumby]

I will make it a point to go with a TLCA sticker and a Mud sticker on Friday. I have one of those gi-normous TLCA stickers that would look great in the back winder.

 

[jjbodean1970]

One of you boys better have a scanner.....when you do, email it to me and I'll override the filesize issues...

if i get one i can handle this for ya!

 

[MoJ]

no particular order

 

[MoJ]

more

 

[MoJ]

some more

 

[semlin]

that jeep looks like speedbuggy

 

[Gumby]

The Jeep is kinda of a cool engineering feat. It has two drivetrains, one for each engine, front and rear. Unlike other twin engine cars, it doesn't drive one axle from each, but one side from each so it can spin on it's own axis.

 

[MoJ]

Going from the Toyota area to the Jeep area was depressing. Jeep had their off-road course set up for people to try out and Toyota had an FJ with no guts. They did have the ultimate Taco there though. Toyota NA built it to be the ultimate rig for off-road. For you IFS advocates, you'll be interested to know they yanked the IFS and put in a solid front axle. The write up said, "IFS replaced with solid front axle for increased off-road capability." Hmmmmmm.

 

[Arya Ebrahimi]

Umm MoJ, Toyota NA didn't build that, Peterson's did....They did a complete 3-part write-up on it, and then drove it on the "ultimate adventure" which they host every year. I'll tell ya one thing though, that Taco fully gets it! Mmmm, dynatrac 60s, mmmm

Ary

 

[shocker]

Even though Peterson's built it, it was in the Toyota booth at last November's Vegas SEMA show.

 

[MoJ]

Umm MoJ, Toyota NA didn't build that, Peterson's did....They did a complete 3-part write-up on it, and then drove it on the "ultimate adventure" which they host every year. I'll tell ya one thing though, that Taco fully gets it! Mmmm, dynatrac 60s, mmmm

Ary

Placard in front of it says built by Toyota NA for Peterson off-road challenge. I too saw it in Peterson's.

 

[bkg]

Placard in front of it says built by Toyota NA for Peterson off-road challenge. I too saw it in Peterson's.

Interesting... If Toyota sponsors, even if to a small extent, a SAS swap on a Taco to increase off-road performance, it means that the engineers are completely stupid... Even if it's just a marketing gimic, it certainly flies in the face of Toyota's intense marketing of the FJ Cruiser as an off-road vehicle...

 

[Gumby]

I think built by Toyota in this case means "sponsered in part by Toyota so when we are showing it we can say we built it."

 

[froggy]

THANKS MOJ for the great pictures. I like this bastard beast more and more.

 

[Cruiserhaven]

Nice Job! Was there by any chance discussion on solid front axle vs. IFS for the FJ?

 

[treerootCO]

Thank you MoJ

 

[treerootCO]

page 4, 5, and 6

 

[wesintl]

Yep.. Cool, Thanks MoJ