The Toyota Tundra prototypes introduced in May 1999 as a 2000 model, initially known as T150s. The Toyota Tundra is a full-size pickup truck sold by Toyota that originally went into production in 1999 (as a 2000 year model). The Tundra was built with an American look and feel and ultimately had something the T100 never did, a V8 engine option. The Tundra is assembled in Princeton, Indiana while the latest Tundra is assembled in San Antonio, Texas as well.
The first generation Tundra had many similarities with the old Toyota T100 and the smaller, more popular Toyota Tacoma. The biggest of those similarities was the shared use of a 3.4-liter V6 engine which was the top of the line engine in both the Tacoma and T100. These engines would serve as the base engine for the Tundra, while a second engine 4.7-liter V8 was added.
Toyota began selling a bolt-on supercharger kit for the 5.7-liter V8 Tundra during June 2008. Power output is increased to 504 hp (376 kW) and 550 pound-feet (750 N·m) of torque. When the installation is carried out by a Toyota dealership the existing warranty remains intact. This kit features Eaton's Twin Vortices Series supercharger which utilizes twin four-lobe rotors, a design shared with the newly introduced C6 ZR1 and CTS-V.
