Toyota Hid a Sneaky Easter Egg on the New Tundra and Sequoia

It is becoming more common for automakers to place little hidden secrets around their vehicles for customers to discover upon delivery. While just a small detail, these Easter eggs are a fun way for engineers and designers to show their appreciation for these machines. Thanks to quirk-locator extraordinaire Doug DeMuro, we now have a new Easter egg to share from the 2023 Toyota Sequoia and Tundra.

Both the Tundra and the Sequoia have just received major updates from Toyota, each bringing a host of improvements over the outgoing models. For example, the Tundra dropped its old school leaf-spring suspension for modern coils and comes exclusively powered by a new twin-turbocharged 3.5-liter V-6 engine. The same platform underpins the new Sequoia SUV, though that vehicle is solely offered with a hybridized variant of that V-6 engine, producing 437 hp and 583 lb-ft of torque. That strong torque figure certainly doesn’t hurt the SUV's updated 9000 lb payload capacity, which is nearly a 25 percent increase over the outgoing unit. Toyota has every reason to be proud of these packages, which might explain the note discovered by DeMuro. More specifically, the automotive sleuth found a message scrawled into the border of the Sequoia's windshield. Hidden in plain sight, customers can find the words “Badass Trucks” spelled out in Morse Code.