Everything You Need To Know About The New Tundra, From One Missing Part

Vol.12

You can read my full, sanitized thoughts about the new Tundra on Outside, and Outdoor Life. But I think I can maybe sum up the whole truck with a very brief description of a single part. It’s not a part you’ll find on a Tundra, no matter how big its TRD Pro badges might be. And not even one you’ll find in the official Toyota accessories catalog, which, at the launch, the company was very excited to note includes “a three inch lift kit.”

That part is a front recovery point. 

Recovery is the act of getting a stuck vehicle, unstuck. As such, it’s a wide ranging term that can include anything from shoving your floor mats under your back wheels, to paying $5,000 for a deuce-and-a-half to drive 5 miles down a fire road to drag your Prius back to pavement. 

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More commonly, recovery involves pulling on something. That something you pull on is a recovery point. Without a proper thing to pull on, you are, at best, risking life, limb, and the ability to keep your brand new pickup truck in a single p…