2022 Toyota Tundra 1794 Edition Review and Test Drive Did Toyota Change the Tundra Enough?

Beside me is the 2022 Toyota Tundra 1794 Edition. We're right outside Burlington Toyota in Burlington, Ontario. And since I've seen changes to the Tundra, I was probably in high school. So Toyota's really redesigned this for 2022 from the bottom up. Let's look at the front of the Toyota here. Gonna come with a lot of chrome. We see this massive front grill here. Nice Toyota stamping right on the Tundra here. And then we have a nice forward-facing camera forward sensors for parking. And then we have our sensor that's for all the safety features and our cruise control. It's gonna come with these triple high beam LED headlights, rain sensing wipers. Come around to the side. This one is gonna be in this gorgeous metallic gray color. We have 20 inch aluminum alloy rims. These things are massive and I love the split-spoke look. The big theme of this 1794 exterior is chrome. Like look at all the chrome all throughout. Chrome all along the windows, chrome handles, chrome on the side sills. And you get these monster mirrors here. They're power extendable mirrors, power folding mirrors, LED turning accents, blind spot monitor. There's the convex mirror as well. And then we have the puddle lamps. Look at the space back here. Basically a small apartment back here. You get the curtains for the mirrors. It blocked the UV rays. Tons of space. You got the heated and ventilated seats as well in the back. You get the power outlet, lightning charger, regular USB. And then look at these kind of winter mats here. This is probably an accessory that comes with this 1974 edition. Again, love the brown saddle leather. And check this out. Tons of storage below the rear seat. You can hide your tools, anything valuable you wanna leave in the truck, you can leave there. On the back, this one's a five and a half foot bed. You can get a six and a half foot bed if you want more space. But this is something that's new here. Look at this. If your hands are full and you can't walk to the tailgate, just use your elbow there and it's gonna drop down nice. And then we have the factory bed liner. We'll have the 120 volt to charge bed lighting. Tie downs, it comes with four tie downs which you can put right on these rails. So super capable for whatever job you're doing. On the business end of this thing, you got a lot going on here, but everything is laid out super nice. All the technology in this is very accessible when you're driving. Leather wrapped steering wheel. We have all our cruise control right on the wheel. Bluetooth for our phone. This one is gonna come with this nice brown saddle leather interior. So seats are really nice. Contrast well with kind of the gray interior. And then we have this wood trim like all throughout the center here. You can see it here. And then what I like are these knobs. Like these are just little rugged knobs here for our volume. We have our different drive modes and our tow haul mode. And then we have this volume knob, which I know I'm just pointing out the knob, but it's just a nice steely kind of knob here. It really adds to the rugged look. Nice little shifter. We have our electric parking brake as well. Temperature control. So we got heated and air conditioned ventilated seats. Automatic temperature control. USB at the top. It's an eight way power adjustable driver's seat. And we have two memory positions as well. But let's look at this. This is the thing that just your eyes gravitate for once you get into this car, is this large screen here. You can subscribe to the navigation, but here's our radio, Cirrus satellite radio. You get Bluetooth for your phone, Android Auto, Apple CarPlay once you connect. And then here's all your driving information. So nice large fonts for you to see that comes up on this big display. But this is the best part when I started up here. You get this nice bird's eye angle, 360 view for the camera. Two angles right here. You have the top down. There's our front angle. And look at all these different views that we can see. There's our parallel view. There's our trailer view. Another parallel view. There's so many different angles. There's a view of our bed. If you are hauling something and you're not sure if it's gonna blow away, you can get an angle of your bed. So many different camera angles. You're also gonna get the towing assistant. So it's a trailer backup guide with a straight path assist. And you can see it here. It makes it nice and easy. Super capable truck here. You got a lot going on, but real fun. And there's our trailer backup guide. Brake controller as well if you do a lot of towing. First impressions of this 1794 edition. They've done a phenomenal job here. This one, the engine is a 3.5 liter twin turbo V6 I-Force engine. It's gonna give you about 389 horsepower. And you don't really need much more than that. Towing capacity is about 11,000 pounds. But they've really done this. I've said this before, Toyota does a lot of things. They do everything great. They don't move the needle in terms of innovation and brand new features. They just make a well-rounded truck and they do everything right. And this truck is a prime example. Like damn, the seats feel really nice. Let's try out some of these different drive modes. We got an economy mode and a sport mode and a normal mode. Let's try out the sport mode. Yeah, wow. Really smooth pickup there, guys. Holy smokes. In the sport mode, you just feel a nice little subtle acceleration. You don't feel really much gear shifts or those drops in RPMs as it shifts through the gears. One thing I love is this super large touchscreen. This 20 inch screen here, probably one of the biggest screens we've seen in the trucks and one of my favorite things about it is it switches through the camera system. As you pull up to a red light, that camera is gonna come on automatically and show if you're turning or it will show your front end as you apply the brakes, as you stop, or as you turn. So really cool when you slow down. And of course, we're gonna have all those Toyota Safety Sense features, our lane trace assist, our blind spot monitor. We're gonna have our puddle lamps on our mirrors. There, you can see that screen turning on right there as I make this turn. I'd love to try the hybrid, but this thing is smooth. Like, holy damn, this is a real pleasure to drive. I'd love to just, like you said, go on a nice long road trip in this, throw on some country music. It'd be super comfortable. It also comes with that auto start stop, so the vehicle will shut down when you're idling at a red light. There's just a lot of subtle, nice features that I love. I love this digital mirror here. I've seen these before, but this one's probably the clearest one I've seen is in the digital rear view mirror. You have this nice digital dash display right behind the wheel, and the wheel doesn't kinda impede it, which sometimes, depending on your wheel position, it will impede the display, but nice gas, gonna show our fuel economy, our digital speedometer, our tachometer. Everything's kinda right on the digital screen here. And we also get the heads-up display, which is showing our fuel economy, again, our speed. It's gonna show our compass as well when we navigate, so quite a few different features here that we love to see. In terms of safety features, you can turn on and off your lane trace assist, your pre-collision warning, your blind spot warning, your parking sensors, rear cross traffic alert. You can turn off the automatic cruise control, and you can turn off the heads-up display, but this is a true heads-up display. It's not like a reflection in a piece of plastic that you've seen on some of the cheaper vehicles. Certainly sounds phenomenal. 12 JBL speakers on this thing. Not bad, not bad. Not bad, not bad sounding, coming out of the sound system. Everything is laid out just perfect. And then look at this massive roof. This is probably one of the sickest sunroofs I've seen in a truck. Reminds me of the F-150 Limiteds, but this one's just a little better, a little wider, a little larger. So that's a wrap, guys. Let me know what you think about the 2022 Tundra. We're gonna be having more 22s on film as they arrive. Special thanks to my friends at Burlington Toyota. If you guys are interested in ordering one of these Tundras, they only have a few available, but you can place your order today. Contact me, or we're gonna link them in the website below. As always, subscribe to Cars Unlocked if you're new here, and comment your thoughts on the 2022 Tundra. Have a great day.