Tundra platform engineer Mike Sweers said, “…we’re not going to get into those tailgate wars.… Our customers are more active than our competitors’ customers. We know what they’re doing. Now, we did change our tailgate to make sure that UTV loading is appropriate. So we have motorcycle loading, dirt bike loading, we have snowmobile loading, we have ATV loading…but side-by-side was an area that we noticed we needed to improve on. So our philosophy is function over form, so we can offer Swiss army knife tailgates but what does the customer actually need their tailgate for? And we think strength and reliability and durability is more important than dutch doors.”
