Toyota Revamps McFly’s Dream Truck to for ‘Back to the Future’s’ 30th Anniversary

2016 Tacoma made over in the 4x4 mods and accessories showcased in the time-travel movie series that turned so many Reagan era kids on to pickup trucks

Oct 21, 2015

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The 30-year-old “Back to the Future” movie franchise didn’t make the Toyota SR5 pickup a success, but it did acknowledge the truck’s cultural-icon status. In the first of the movie series, after time-traveling into the past to save his own life and the lives of his family, Marty McFly (played by Michael J. Fox) returns to the present stupefied to find that his parents are now cool, his girlfriend is still hot and a new Toyota SR5 pickup is now his.

The truck in that movie moment tipped the scales toward 4x4 pickup trucks in a lot of adolescent auto fantasies.

Toyota is getting in on the buzz surrounding October 21, 2015 – Marty and Doc Brown’s futuristic destination “Back to the Future Part II” – with a 2015 edition of Marty’s dream truck. Using the all-new 2016 Toyota Tacoma that went on sale in September, fans in Los Angeles, New York and Dallas can see the truck in major tourist destinations for today only.

To make the 2016 Tacoma look like a modern-day version of the classic from the movie, a number of modifications were made: