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Toyota’s Snowhunter Truck and SUV Concepts Bring the Chill to SEMA

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Toyota’s Snowhunter Truck and SUV Concepts Bring the Chill to SEMA

The Tundra, Tacoma, 4Runner, Land Cruiser, and Sequoia trade tires for tracks in a quest to conquer the frozen tundra.

El Niño may be threatening to limit snowfall this season, but Toyota is taking no chances with this quintet of specially prepped Snowhunter concepts that it built for SEMA this year. Michigan gets plenty of snow regardless of the forecast due to a geographical and atmospheric anomaly known as the lake effect, so it’s no surprise that Toyota’s CALTY Design Research center in Ann Arbor, Michigan, led the development of these tracked snow machines.

All five builds share the same Snowhunter camo exterior finish and badging, black accents, and auxiliary lighting from Rigid. The shared hardware includes a lift provided by Toyota Genuine Parts and TRD, which sets the stage for the mounting of a tracked drive system that’s sure to make easy work of blasting through snow drifts while other drivers are stuck spinning their wheels. Not that we’d engage in such immature behavior, but still.

The Tundra Snowhunter concept leads the charge, featuring a Toyota TrailLift Pro Rack System Concept courtesy of CALTY Design. The sturdy frame is designed to support all manner of configurable storage, organization, and gear. An articulating top rack lowers to make loading larger equipment like bikes, kayaks, and possibly Bumble, the Abdominal Snowman from Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer —hey, things get weird out in the frozen tundra—as easy as possible. Toyota even figured out a way to fit a set of TRD billet rear control arms in a fashion that works with the tacked drive system.


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