2007 Toyota Tundra SR5 from North America - Comments

In my household my spouse drives her SUV and I drive a car and a full size truck all under 2 years old. I also still prefer owning a car not driving a truck every single day. Of the many new imports we have owned they were fine mechanically until 2000 and were not the same mechanically thereafter... yet my wife stilled stayed with them up until a year ago. She had great imports, but got fed up with mechanical failures which she never had prior. I test drove a new Tundra and prefer Silverados handling and ride. No manufacturer buys vehicles for us so I call it as it is. This is the first time we have all domestics at the same time. I will test drive import and domestic trucks again and maybe it will be a Tundra next as models constantly improve. At this point and time I prefer GM meaning new models not like a prior reviewer commenting on 1984. My old imports were great, but my new ones did not hold up.

My 2007 Tundra CrewMax, with a 5.7 liter engine, is now three months old and has just over 3000 miles.

There is nothing to report, except that it has performed as advertised and I have no issues to be dealt with and I have not returned to the dealer since the day I purchased it. I'm not sure I have ever had another new vehicle that I could say this about, and that covers almost 50 years of buying new vehicles.

It has no rattles and everything works as intended. I have personally detailed this vehicle a couple of times, and you can tell a lot about how a vehicle is put together when you clean up every part of it. This vehicle is well put together and the fit and finish are excellent.

I can see some small things that could be improved, but I think you could say that of almost any vehicle that you purchase. Overall, in my opinion, it is a high quality truck with a lot of excellent features.

A larger contractor which spends $700 a week on gas actually more likely diesel for vehicles typically has considerably more income plus business tax write offs. I know of one spending $8000 a month on fuel costs alone...the point is having plenty of room, load and towing capacity. You look more at what can be carried in the bed or behind not fixated on the fuel gauge(s).

15:46 No, we must lose the truck mentality. Very few people have the need for a truck.

I know that contractors and so forth DO have the need for trucks and vans, but they are still a very small percentage of the population.

Go survey 500 people and you might find one that actually NEEDS a truck. We have to start thinking like every other civilized country in the world; vehicles are nothing more than transportation, buy only what you need.

People worry about getting hit by a truck while driving a little economy car; well, the problem is, there are too many large vehicles on the road that shouldn't be there! Most big trucks and SUV's do nothing more than go to the grocery store, the hardware store, and once in a great while actually haul a load of gravel, bricks, whatever. Buying a truck so you can haul a heavy load once every six months is stupid. It costs you more to drive it for the rest of the year than it would cost to have a heavy load of whatever delivered to your house.

UNLESS you absolutely need a truck, almost daily, it's smarter to buy a small car. If we all followed this rule, oil consumption would drastically drop and so would gas prices. Not to mention the reduction in pollution and the benefits to all of us that this would have.

Some might say, 'well, this is America, and I'll buy what I like'; well, YOU are the problem if you're saying this.

I have a small car, which I drive daily for economy AND I have a full size truck (an older one which I did not pay a lot of money for) that I use to do work around the house, tow my boat with, etc. I only drive the truck about 1000 miles a year.

What I pay to insure and keep it maintained (very little), probably equals the price differential that I would pay for gas if I drove it every day compared to my small car. However, I get the added bonus of having an extra vehicle, and I am not burning all of that extra gas. My philosophy is, do not take anymore then you need from the Earth.

I could not imagine living without a full size truck, but my personal situation does not require me to drive one every day. My system of having an economical small car as a daily driver, and an old beater full size truck sitting on deck for when I need it works very well for me. Just thought I would throw that out. You do not have to paint yourself into a corner one way or the other with the truck vs. car quandary.

It would be interesting to see how America would do without trucks for a month. They are the number one selling vehicle in America and I cannot see how you expect owning cars will perform new construction, renovations etc.

Thanks to Car Survey, I recently dodged a bullet. I was going to buy a Tundra, but after reading all the horror stories about Toyota in this chain of comments, I bought a Silverado instead and am very pleased. Thanks again to all you folks who called out Toyota for the poorly engineered, unreliable product it is!!!

I see many cars on construction sites. They park their cars and drive vehicles that are parked on the site. or have a trailer they leave at the site. There really is no need for a truck everyday. We have done it in Minnesota we can't everyone else do it?

11:05 If this is even true, you made a mistake you'll be paying for for a while.

13:34...perhaps employees then drive company larger full size pick ups with tow trailers and dumps. Who drives these so-called cars to building suppliers multiple times daily to pick up skids of cement, sand, lime, block, crusher run, stucco, EIFS, lath, concrete wire, rebar, sonotubes, ridgid insulation, metal studs, track and are towing mixers, concrete buggies, air compressors to name a few? I am not seeing cars, small pickups or Tundras lined up at 7 a. m every morning ready to work. I'd actually like to see what kind of car you own that carries 108 8" blocks (skid) and then meets at the job. I do see a large population of Ford F-250's Crew Cabs and even larger Fords, Silverado Diesels and Rams, that are heavy duty vehicles, that cannot be overlooked in why America's best-selling vehicles are trucks. A lot of equipment is rented and still has to be towed (by the way) back to rental centers or contractors yards in the evening. Things cannot be completely accomplished even with planned daily material deliveries without proper equipment available at all times. You cannot do this with cars; maybe you can tow with a large SUV.............but you will not replace large trucks.

The monthly Japanese propaganda pamphlet posing as a (so-called) consumer advocate magazine “Consumer Reports,” which the Toyota faithful all love to cite every rant they publish as Gospel, just announced they will no longer be recommending your beloved 'Tundra' and 'Camry' due to their demonstrating below-average reliability. Even “Consumer Reports” could not cover for Toyota and all of the garbage they have been putting out in recent years. And, for "Consumer Reports" to roll over and actually recite anything other than accolades about Toyota, you can bet the situation actually is far worse worse than they are letting on.

Now, what were you all saying about Toyota being so great? Thousands upon thousands of people cannot be making up all of these problems that are being reported.

Ah, and so ends the great Toyota quality myth, according to Toyota faithfuls' own sacred tome...

08:33 No one here said trucks should be eliminated, at least not in any comments I read. People that don't NEED trucks shouldn't buy them, that's all. And I'm willing to bet that probably 90% of people that own trucks don't need them. If you think you need one for winter, learn how to drive instead. Pennsylvania winters are as bad as anywhere else in the country, and I can get anywhere I want to go in a car; earlier in life I even did it in rear wheel drive cars. Four wheel drive is not a necessity unless you live on top of a mountain in a cold climate. There are too many hillbillies in my area, (think Larry the Cable guy) that think they're too manly to drive an efficient car. The truth is, they're too stupid to see why their truck is a waste, is hurting them in the long run, as well as the rest of us. They buy them just to jack them up on 38" tires, put dual exhausts on them, and think they're cool. Grow a personality instead of defining yourself by the vehicle you drive.

19;18 Yeah, sure. Toyota finally has only two models in the last 20 years that haven't been fully recommended. Meanwhile, every GM and Ford piece of scrap that they drag off of the assembly line in the last 20 years has been rated as exactly what it is: JUNK. Toyota is still head, shoulders, and everything else above any domestic crap. Ah... so continues the tradition of domestic automobiles being pure garbage.

Usually if you are towing so much stuff you should probably have a truck with a big and strong rear axle. Like an F350 or 450 or bigger. I just towed a big trailer on a truck you guys say is so strong, "150" and that thing cannot do much. I cannot see an F250 improving much better unless it had a good turbo diesel. The Tundra at least trumps the 150 in everything possible in my opinion. At least the one I was using did not rattle all the time, but maybe that is because it is stuffed with $4,000 in foam instead of engineering a better quality interior.

The Tundra just can't cut the mustard. Compare payload and towing capacity, manufacturer's warranty, number of engine choices, and most importantly, heritage, and the big three domestic automakers come out on top every time!