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What’s New At TundraHeadquarters.com – Your Input Is Needed

This is a quick housekeeping announcement for the people who regularly visit the site (all four of you) along with a short survey that will help me make the site better.

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The Toyota Mini Motorhome – A Quirky RV With A Strong Following

In the 1970’s and 80’s the RV boom hit America hard, and with it came motorhomes and camping trailers of all different shapes and sizes.  Most people are familiar with the mammoth bus-based Winnebagos and pickup-truck mounted camper attachments, but few people remember that Toyota also got into the camping game in its own unique fashion.  Unlike other major RV players who battled over maximum trailer length and interior square footage, Toyota decided to keep things small and compact.  In doing so, they almost cornered the market on affordable and practical camping.

Toyota's Mini Motorhomes are an interesting and perhaps forgotten chapter of Toyota history

The Toyota Mini Motorhome first hit American roads in the mid-1970’s, and was based on a version of the Toyota Hilux compact pickup truck.

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BBC’s Top Gear Loves Toyota Trucks

If you haven’t seen the Top Gear attempt to destroy a 190k mile diesel Toyota Hilux, you owe it to yourself to watch the following video. Aired back in November of 2003, this video has become a bit of a cult classic.

Whether you’re a fan of Toyota or not, you’ve got to admire a truck that starts after spending the night in the ocean. You could also say that this is where Top Gear’s love affair with the Toyota truck began.

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Wilderness Regulations Threaten Off-Road Recreation

The latest craze in state and federal land management is to designate large tracts of public lands as “wilderness,” a term that sounds perfectly reasonable and innocuous. After all, who doesn’t love “wilderness?”

View of Yosemite national park

Of course, there’s a catch: The Federal Wilderness act of 1964 states that areas that are “untrammeled” by man (a.k.a., untouched) can be set aside as wilderness. This means they can never be built upon, sold, leased, mined, etc. It also  means that “wilderness” can’t be used by trucks, 4×4’s, ATVs, snowmobiles, and even mountain bikes.

According to the Blue Ribbon Coalition (a special interest group dedicated to responsible recreation on public lands), the flurry of Wilderness bills being proposed and/or signed into law has raised a red flag in the access community and other multiple-use interests.

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If Pickup Trucks Were Beautiful Women They Would Be…

Because it’s fun to come up with ways to include pictures of beautiful women into articles about pickups, let’s talk about what trucks would look like if they were beautiful women popular in American culture. The order is based on domestic content, with the truck with the most domestic content going first.

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