2025 Toyota Tundra Review: Big, Hybrid, & Unapologetically Extra

Australia has finally got its mitts on the 2025 Toyota Tundra, and Toyota didn’t muck about with timid trims. Nope — we’re talking full-size, fully-hybrid, and fully-extra. This isn’t just a HiLux with a gym membership, it’s a proper yank-tank ute reimagined with Toyota DNA and hybrid cleverness.

Big Bones, Big Attitude

Underneath, the Tundra rides on Toyota’s clever TNGA-F platform, the same bones as Land Cruiser 300, Prado, and Lexus LX. This makes it unnervingly civilised. One minute you’re rolling through Sydney traffic like a semi-trailer with Spotify; the next you’re cruising the Hume Highway like a long-wheelbase Beemer from the naughty noughties. She’s no mountain goat, but towing? Tick. Country cruising? Double tick.

To prove the point, we hooked up a horse float — the kind usually seen clattering behind a farm ute with flannelette shirts at the wheel. The Tundra barely flinched. The hybrid V6 pulled cleanly, stayed steady through bends, and felt more Zen than workmanlike. Imagine a yoga retreat with hooves in the back. Even the horses looked smug. This is a truck built for towing floats, caravans, and heavy trailers without breaking a sweat — or your bank balance at the servo.

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Hybrid Heart, Tradie Soul

Power comes from a 3.5-litre twin-turbo V6 hybrid (i-Force Max), serving up a stout 326kW/790Nm through a 10-speed auto and full-time AWD. It’ll tow up to 4.5 tonnes braked and haul a tray full of dreams, glitter, or plasterboard. Toyota reckons economy sits around 10.7L/100km combined, which, for a truck this size, is practically dainty.

Inside, you get leather seats, a 14-inch infotainment screen with wireless CarPlay/Android Auto, and safety kit that reads like War and Peace: adaptive cruise, lane-trace assist, blind-spot monitoring, rear cross-traffic, the lot. Space? Immense. You could run a Pilates class in the back seat.

Verdict: The Hybrid Cowboy

At $155,990 for the Limited, the Tundra isn’t cheap, but then again, neither is a F-150, RAM, or Silverado. What Toyota offers is a full-size pickup with a hybrid heart, a truck that’s more refined than its brash American cousins, and something you’ll be proud to rock up in at Bunnings — or Mardi Gras, tray lined with glitter.

Does it miss a few tricks? Yes. A head-up display and auto wipers would sweeten the deal. But the Tundra is more than its parts. It’s handsome, it’s capable, it’s a little bit smug, and it’s one of the few big pickups that makes sense in hybrid form.

Like Aunty Ag always said: the ones who yell loudest are usually the ones doing the least. The Tundra doesn’t need a V8. It just is.

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