Q 01/05

A stock Toyota Tundra towed which retired NASA space shuttle across a Los Angeles freeway bridge in 2012?

A) Atlantis

B) Discovery

C) Endeavour

D) Enterprise

Answer · why

C) Endeavour

Endeavour was too heavy for its robotic transporters to cross the Interstate 405 bridge, so the pickup pulled it over on a lighter dolly.

Q 02/05

Toyota took back Victor Sheppard's well-used 2007 Tundra in 2016 after it passed which odometer mark?

A) 100,000 miles

B) 300,000 miles

C) 1 million miles

D) 3 million miles

Answer · why

C) 1 million miles

1 million miles came from averaging about 125,000 a year, and Toyota gave Sheppard a new truck so its engineers could take the old one apart and study...

Q 03/05

A 2003 special-edition Toyota Tundra tied in with which Arnold Schwarzenegger film that featured the truck on screen?

A) Terminator 3

B) Collateral Damage

C) The 6th Day

D) End of Days

Answer · why

A) Terminator 3

Terminator 3 gave its name to the T3 Special Edition with its own badging, and in the film's main chase the lead characters take the wheel of a Tundra...

Q 04/05

Toyota Tundra show trucks carried which name until a rival pickup maker sued over its likeness to a best-seller?

A) T200

B) T150

C) T250

D) T1500

Answer · why

B) T150

T150 sat too close to the Ford F-150, the market leader, so after Ford's lawsuit the production truck was renamed before its 1999 launch.

Q 05/05

Since 2008, every Toyota Tundra has been assembled in which Texas city?

A) Houston

B) Fort Worth

C) Corpus Christi

D) San Antonio

Answer · why

D) San Antonio

San Antonio beat sites in four other states for the plant, which then stood idle for three months in 2008 when truck sales slumped.