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Monday, November 12, 2007
Sequoia goes super-size.
BY STEVE SILER, PHOTOGRAPHY BY CHRIS DOANE FOR BRENDA PRIDDY & CO. July 2007
When it comes to future-vehicle prototypes that we catch in public, the camouflage used to conceal them is sometimes almost as much fun to look at as the vehicles themselves. And, man, we’d like to meet the artists who slapped together the garb on the prototypes of the 2009 Toyota Sequoia we just nabbed during towing tests.
Indeed, one could probably tie the earth to Jupiter with all that duct tape, and we can only imagine what inspired the tabbed trim piece behind the front wheels—the uniform from the Mad Max High School cheerleaders? Or maybe they are a new take on trendy fender vents. Alas, they are probably just there so the engineers can open the doors without revealing the cutline.
We don’t know why Toyota is taking such pains, since even so fetchingly wrapped in tarps and tape, it’s pretty evident that from the B-pillar forward, the Sequoia is more or less identical to the full-size Tundra pickup on which it’s clearly based, confirming that the automaker’s biggest SUV will indeed be big. Looks like we’ll have to wait a bit longer, however, to see what the Sequoia looks like aft of the B-pillar, but we expect few surprises from ever-conservative Toyota.
BY STEVE SILER, PHOTOGRAPHY BY CHRIS DOANE FOR BRENDA PRIDDY & CO. July 2007
When it comes to future-vehicle prototypes that we catch in public, the camouflage used to conceal them is sometimes almost as much fun to look at as the vehicles themselves. And, man, we’d like to meet the artists who slapped together the garb on the prototypes of the 2009 Toyota Sequoia we just nabbed during towing tests.
Indeed, one could probably tie the earth to Jupiter with all that duct tape, and we can only imagine what inspired the tabbed trim piece behind the front wheels—the uniform from the Mad Max High School cheerleaders? Or maybe they are a new take on trendy fender vents. Alas, they are probably just there so the engineers can open the doors without revealing the cutline.
We don’t know why Toyota is taking such pains, since even so fetchingly wrapped in tarps and tape, it’s pretty evident that from the B-pillar forward, the Sequoia is more or less identical to the full-size Tundra pickup on which it’s clearly based, confirming that the automaker’s biggest SUV will indeed be big. Looks like we’ll have to wait a bit longer, however, to see what the Sequoia looks like aft of the B-pillar, but we expect few surprises from ever-conservative Toyota.
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