Toyota Tacoma Blue Beetle, a pickup truck designed for DC fans

the Toyota Tacoma 2024the intermediate capture that replaces Hilux In the North American market, collaborate with the latest superheroes in Capital In his first film, “Blue Beetle”, Which premiered worldwide in theaters last August.

Filled with action, heart and humor, the film featured several generations of the Toyota Tacoma Jaime Reyes (who plays Miguel in the hit series Cobra Kai) has his life changed forever when an ancient piece of alien technology, the Scarab, transforms him into the hero known as the Blue Beetle.

Throughout the film Jaime and The entire Reyes family relies on their Toyota Tacoma, A third generation model to help them on this new adventure. Baptized as “Taco” He is the pride and joy of Jaime’s uncle Rudy, played wonderfully by George Lopez.

Having been destroyed but always taking them to their destination, the Toyota Tacoma plays an integral role, and at the end of the film gives its owner a new car. It’s about The latest generation of medium pickupWhich was introduced in May of this year.

But the best is yet to come: After the film was released, Toyota’s design and engineering teams collaborated with DC (Marvel’s enemy) to develop an exclusive design for the 2024 Toyota Tacoma with highly original paint, which was presented at the SEMA show. Expo 2023 in Las Vegas.

“We commissioned our talented team at CALTY Studio, led by Scott Roller, to create a Tacoma that matched the unique design of the beloved and soon-to-be iconic ‘taco’, but in a modern way that complemented the new design. Of the new generation.” He said Tacoma chief engineer, Sheldon Brown.

For movie fans, Toyota trucks have a history within Hollywood, dating back to… 1985 SR5 Extra Cab It was Marty McFly’s coveted truck in the saga “Back to the future.” In addition, the first generation Tundra appeared “Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines” Which had its own version of 600 T3 Tundras.

New Toyota Tacoma 2024

The new Toyota Tacoma family is diverse in its entirety Eight different versions, including a new one called Trailhunter. Added to this are the SR, SR5, TRD PreRunner, TRD Sport, TRD Off-Road and the most exclusive: Limited, which adds luxury details such as power running boards and exclusive headlights.

Unlike most of its competitors, which only offer a single-cab configuration, the new 2024 Toyota Tacoma is available in XtraCab and DoubleCabwhere the latter will also offer two different types of charging box.

The 2024 Toyota Tacoma offers many new features compared to the previous model. there New 2.4-liter turbocharged four-cylinder engine Available in two energy levels. For the basic versions, it offers 230 hp and 330 Nm of torque, while in the rest the power increases to 280 hp and torque to 430 Nm.

But the most important thing in this generation is the debut of technology iForce Max, Being the most powerful Tacoma in history: 330 hp and 630 Nm thanks to the combination of the 2.4 engine with another 50 hp electric motor integrated into the transmission.

If we talk about traction, there will be all types, 4×2, 4×4, permanent total, with Two-speed transfer cases and lockable center differential (back too). Depending on the brand, they can download it Up to 800 kg and towing 3 tons.