Toyota cutting Dyna's weight and regulations
Fifty kilogrammes. That is all Toyota has had to take out from the total weight of its small Dyna truck in order to move it from the medium (MCV) to the light commercial vehicle (LCV) segment.
It has done this by removing a steel bar in the chassis, which the company says it only put in a number of years ago to push the Dyna up into the MCV segment. It all seems a bit odd, but the company has a simple rationale. Today, the driver of a Dyna needs to have a Code 10 licence, but because of its small dimensions and payload, it has been extremely popular with younger truck drivers and even with truck driving schools.
Moving it into the LCV segment means that anyone with a regular Code 8 licence can now jump into the truck and head off around town. Effectively, Toyota is saying that the Dyna is no longer a truck, but a large bakkie.
These changes are not going to happen immediately though, but in January 2017. The timing is not a coincidence. In January controversial legislation will be implemented in SA that requires trucks in the MCV category and above to be fitted with mandatory, tamper-proof speed limiters. Moving the Dyna into the LCV segment not only allows anyone who can drive a Toyota Aygo to drive one, but it also means the Dyna does not have to have a speed limiter fitted.
There will be those who think this is all a very bad idea. But Toyota points out that the payload is similar to that of large bakkie rivals such as the Hyundai H100. The Hyundai also only requires a Code 8 licence and can be fitted with a range of bodies, like the Dyna. Basically the company will take out the steel bar and drop the Dyna chassis cab down from a 3,550kg gross vehicle mass (GVM) to 3,500kg, the same as a big bakkie. Because it is only losing 50kg, it will retain its payload ability of about 1,900kg, dependent of course on the body fitted.
It is not all about migrating into the LCV class though. The new Dyna will get ABS brakes and it will also get a new cab. That cab will be similar to that introduced on the latest generation 300 Series both in terms of exterior and interior design. This will ensure that the Dyna will have much more in common in the looks department with its larger Hino stablemates.
Source: Business Day
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