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Cowboy Steering Wheel Drivers' title='Cowboy Steering Wheel Drivers' />Toyota Tundra 1. Edition 4x. 4 Review. Free Price Quote From a Local Dealer. MTAyMlgxMDAw/z/nDMAAOSwRUhZAELD/$_57/520-432.jpg' alt='Cowboy Steering Wheel Drivers' title='Cowboy Steering Wheel Drivers' />View Special Offers. No Obligation, Fast Simple Free New Car Quote. Blending in with the locals can give you a vastly different perspective on a city than if you were to go full on tourist, so on a recent trip to Austin, Texas, I asked for a Toyota Tundra for the weekend. Weird choice, you say Not to Texans. Our 2. Toyota Tundra 1. Acdsee Photo Editor Full Version. TRD Off Road package, which adds different wheels, tires, Bilstein shocks, and other equipmentTundras without that package are shown below. Since 2. 00. 8, all Toyota Tundra full size pickups have been built in San Antonio, Texas. Thats a fact Toyota dealers in Texas are very proud of, as every Tundra and Tacoma sold there wears a sticker on the back window patterned after the state flag that says Built Here, Lives Here. You could argue that Austin isnt like the rest of Texas, but its still in the heart of truck country, so our 2. Toyota Tundra 1. 79. Edition was right at home in the pickup dominated landscape. The 1. 79. 4 Edition might be the most Texan of all Tundra modelsits named for the year the JLC Ranch, the site of Toyota Motor Manufacturing Texas, was founded. Like all 1. 79. 4 Editions, our tester was a Crew. Max model with the 5. Toyotas 5. 7 liter V 8, which produces 3. Cowboy Steering Wheel Drivers' title='Cowboy Steering Wheel Drivers' />Subscribe and SAVE, give a gift subscription or get help with an existing subscription by clicking the links below each cover image. Tibute Images of NASCAR Drivers including Neil Bonnett, Dale Earnhardt, Mark Donohue, J. D. McDuffie, Davey Allison, Tim Richmond, Alan Kulwicki. Our truck also came equipped with part time four wheel drive and an assortment of TRD Performance parts as part of the TRD Off Road package and other accessories that drove the price up to 5. The 1. 79. 4 Edition helps justify its MSRP with an interior swathed in soft, smooth leather. The seats, center console, shifter, dash, and door panels are covered in rich feeling cowhide, which lends a Western look with its saddle brown color and white contrast stitching. Although the leather upholstery itself looks nice, it could be better matched with the rest of the interior, which uses silver colored hard plastics and plasticky looking wood trim. The door panels and dash use the same durable materials found in other Tundra models, which is probably a good thing for those who plan on actually using their 1. The utilitarian look does stick out against the more upscale parts of the interior, however. After the leather, the next thing youll notice when getting into the Tundra is the fact that this is an older product. You cant get a Tundra in 2. Texas heat, as I could start the car and begin cooling down the cabin before getting in. The entire truck was heavily updated in 2. The steering wheel is chunky and features controls that look a generation behind, and the touchscreen infotainment systemalthough perfectly functionallacks the sharp resolution and fast response customers have come to expect from new cars. But if you can look past all that, the Tundra is a solid truck. The ride is smooth on the highway, and the interior is mostly quiet except for some noise from the TRD Off Road packages 2. R1. 8 size all terrain tires. The Tundra handles like a smaller vehicle on twisty roads, and it wasnt as difficult to maneuver in the city as you might expect of a full size pickup. I was definitely glad to have the standard rearview camera and parking sensors when I had to park, though. Steering feel is on the lighter side, and the ratio takes some getting used to, but overall the Tundra is easy to drive. The V 8 offers plenty of power, and the six speed automatic transmission is quick to kick down a gear when trying to pass on the highway. The drivetrain also had no trouble climbing steep grades. A few minutes on a gravel road was the closest I got to off roading in the Tundra. It wasnt challenging enough to really test the Tundras capabilities, but if the road ever got rockier or more rutted, the truck would have been prepared thanks to the TRD Off Road packages off road tuned Bilstein shocks, engine and fuel tank skidplates, and the aforementioned AT tires. The Tundra 44 1. Crew. Max also offers 1. I didnt have a chance to tow or haul anything on my trip, but the 44 1. Edition has a max towing capacity of 8,8. Living with the Tundra day to day wouldnt be difficult for drivers of larger stature, but if you have short legs like me, getting in can be a challenge. The drivers side doesnt have a grab handle on the A pillar or above the window frame, so you end up pulling yourself up on the steering wheel or the generously sized door armrest. Checking the box for the 3. As flip up rear seats come, the Tundra 1. Editions benches are pretty comfy. The leather is soft, and theres plenty of cushioning for long drives. Theres also more than enough legroom. I was able to fit two carry on roller bags sideways in the footwells without moving the front seats. Hopefully development on the next gen Tundra is well underway, because the current model is showing its age. The Tundra 1. 79. Edition is still luxurious and capable, but it could benefit from another interior refresh at the very least. The next Tundra will also need to work on its efficiency, as the current 44 V 8 is EPA rated at only 1. V 8 pickup in the class. The 1. 79. 4 Edition does start less than its Western themed competitionwhich includes the Ford F 1. King Ranch, Ram 1. Laramie Longhorn, and Chevrolet Silverado 1. High Countryat 4. So if an ocean of brown leather is the look youre going for, youll pay slightly less for it with Toyotas version. The Tundra still ticks most of the right boxes for todays truck buyer, but competitors are continually raising the bar in the full size pickup category. If the next gen Tundra can deliver class leading fuel economy, modern tech, and improved material quality in addition to the comfort, capability, and durability todays Tundra already offers, then Texans will have something they can really be proud of. GMs Super Cruise Driving a 2. Cadillac CT6 With a Full On Auto Pilot. Free Price Quote From a Local Dealer. View Special Offers. No Obligation, Fast Simple Free New Car QuoteLeave the driving to us. Thats been Greyhound bus lines on again off again tagline since 1. Cadillac CT6. GMs much ballyhooed Super Cruise will go on sale in the fall of 2. CT6 models with the premium luxury trim package and as standard equipment on top Platinum models the price of which went up 5. What is it The rebirth of full on Autopilot, which Tesla Model S and X owners enjoyed for a little while before a back seat driver died in a crash despite receiving seven warnings from the car to resume control and the lawyers shut down that party. That system was never intended to, you know, actually be an auto pilot, and this ones automatic piloting is considerably more restrictive than Teslas cowboy over the air upgraded system. Its also fully vetted by what surely by now must be the jitteriest and most conservative lawyers in all of autodom. Highways only. The system only becomes available once youve entered a meticulously lidar mapped, divided, limited access highway in the U. S. or Canadaor a limited access stretch of a highway that switches between on ramps and crossings like California Highway 1. When the steering wheel icon appears at the upper right of the central speedometer gauge, press the Super Cruise button, and when the car has locked on to the center of the lane, the light bar on the top of the steering wheel turns green. Pay attention. Infrared emitters on the top quadrant of the steering wheel illuminate the drivers head and face, and a steering columnmounted camera with infrared capability for night detection constantly monitors head position and eye focal point. Look away for 1. 5 seconds or less, and the system demands you return your gaze to the road by first flashing the green light, then flashing red, sounding a tone, vibrating the seat, and ultimately issuing a voice warning. If none of that succeeds in returning the driver to the task of controlling the vehicle, it will slow to a stop in the lane of travel, put the hazard flashers on, and summon help via On. Star. If you get to those last stages and resume control, Super Cruise locks you out until the next time you stop and restart the car. A nice touch capacitive sensors detect the drivers hands on the wheel, eliminating the need to wiggle it to verify control as with some lane keep assist vehicles. You change lanes. Any deviation from the absolute center of the marked lane is on you. Want to avoid a pothole Thats your job. Need to change lanes to pass a slowpoke Check your blind spot the car will monitor it, too, signal, and steer into the desired lane overcoming some resistance torque initially. The light bar on the wheel turns blue while youre driving. Center the car in the new lane and wait for the steering wheel bar to return to green, signaling Super Cruise is back in charge. Reasonable weather. Autonomy is all about sensor fusion and multiple redundancies. Here the system relies on forward and side looking cameras, long range radar, high precision GPS courtesy of Trimble, and a GM proprietary high def map database generated in conjunction with and maintained by a tech startup GM Ventures invested in called Geodigital. If the camera or radar data becomes compromised by heavy rain or snow covering lane markings or obscuring the radar unit or if the GPS system somehow goes down, the system will call upon the driver to resume control. Until that happens, the system will continue steering or come to a stop as noted above, relying on all sensors that still work. Tunnels deprive the system of GPS, but maps keep it working for up to 1 km 0. Construction zones. The owners manual warns that the system is not programmed to cope with construction zones, but in practice it handles such zones OK if lane markings are provided and travel remains on the main road surface. But for example it will not follow even a well marked deviation that crosses the median to share the opposite directions roadway. A few more interesting features Curve Speed Control. When Super Cruising, if the radius of a curve on a mapped highway would result in dangerous, uncomfortable, or unnatural lateral g levels, the car will automatically slow for the turn and the cruise control icon at the upper left of the main speedometer display indicates this system is active. Regular and Adaptive Cruise. Whenever youre not on a Super Cruisequalifying highway, you now have the choice of adaptive or ordinary cruise control. Press and hold the cancel switch to toggle between these modes. This feature is spreading across the whole Cadillac lineup for 2. Oh, and the time out length after which the system wont automatically resume driving in a stopped traffic jam is stretched from a few seconds to more like half a minute when in Super Cruise mode. Pingpong lane keeping. In you drive mode the Super Cruise sensors are still informing all other safety systems, such as the pre collision warning and braking, lane departure warning, and lane keep assist. The latter still lets you wander from lane marker to lane marker because centering in the lane could mislead drivers into thinking Super Cruise was engaged. Sampling the system in an early build 2. CT6 Platinum, it functioned in a decisive way that instantly inspired confidence. Upon entering the freeway it quickly acquired the center of the lane and stuck to it faithfully, slowing quite gently when encountering slower moving traffic then resuming the set speed in a timely fashion following a lane change. The infrared emitters and camera were able to penetrate my mirrored Oakleys with ease, and I was never hectored to pay attention or resume looking at the road except when I truly looked well away for extended times. There were no false alarms, in other words. One Tesla feature Cadillac is missing is the display indicating the actual path of the upcoming roadway with icons indicating car or truck traffic in the nearby lanes. The only display option is the typical adaptive cruise one with straight lane markers and a Cadillac CT6 rear end displayed when a vehicle is sensed ahead. Super Cruise will effectively be the first SAE Level 3 autonomous vehicle offering for highway speeds. The Audi A8 Level 3 system will shut down above a traffic jam speed of 3. Company reps assiduously avoid using that terminology, however, perhaps because competitors such as Ford and Volvo have made a big deal of their intentions to skip over Level 3 and go right to Level 4 full autonomy, in which the vehicle is designed to perform all safety critical driving functions and monitor roadway conditions for an entire trip when traveling on mapped roadwaysLevel 5 is full humanlike go anywhere autonomy. Ill admit I was saddened when Tesla over the air upgraded Autopilot to require hands on the wheel every few minutes. Im heartened to see Cadillac introducing a hands freeand fully vettedreplacement for that pioneering system. Read more about the Cadillac CT6.