Taking a cue from a similar Kansas City Royals promotion, Toyota has a giveaway going with the Cincinnati Reds for the upcoming baseball season. The promotion has a Toyota Tundra perched in the outfield. The deal is if a player smacks the Tundra with a home run, it will be given away to a lucky fan. The average baseball fan wouldn't know it, but there's a hell of a catch.
The car is 502 feet away from home plate and 65 feet above the field level. A little math by the folks at Red Reporter determined that on an average calm day the ball would have to be hit at 134.5 mph off the bat, which is damn near physically impossible. Furthermore, the folks did more math and determined that on a balmy 90-degree day, a strong right-handed hitter with a 15 mph tailwind could maybe get it to the truck. Way to go, Toyota. Earn those advertising dollars! [Red Reporter via Deadspin]














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Nothing a few steroids can't fix.
Did you say their moving the Isoptopes to Albuquerque?!
Meh, who wants a dented Tundra anyway?
The Royals have indeed a similar thing, although the Royals have a Dodge Ram perched on a pole, and a Durango in the outfield. If a Royal hits the Durango, someone wins a Dodge (although im not sure why anyone would want one, minus Viper).
Royals= Teh Suckz
You know you can just crosspost from other Gawker sites, right?
Oh right...pageviews, SEO, et al. Sorry, Ray.
@Novaload: Ouch. Saw that one coming.
See, kids? Stay in school, learn algebra and geometry, and don't go out hooning around in the expensive sports cars your parents bought you (I'm looking at you in Florda. A little better math scores, and you might not have hit the tree!)
Leave the automotive fun for those of us who managed to survive being young, stupid, and irresponsible (and learned how to do our sums with pencil and paper).
@Ω βгåғғ™: nice grammar asshole...
@RoyLFuchs:
Mmm. Smell that deluxe Corinthian leather!
Same thing going on at Jacob's Field in Cleveland (sorry...now Progressive Field)
mark mcguire hit the longest home run in cleveland back in the all star game held here (1998?). It was nowhere close to where the truck is chilling. Of course, it does happened to be situated RIGHT as you walk out of one of the parking decks. You can't even see the field around the thing!
Maybe they could just take it to some girls high school softball games and park it in some choice spot. That's how I've seen most cars earn their ball game dents.
@pjsammy: Maybe the Progressive folks could give away one of the hail damaged ones and skip the middle man. Or they could give away the one in this You Tube video:
+ Watch video
Who would want an ugly truck with piles of pigeon crap on it? Oh and I have to pay the taxes on truck? pass
@Ω βгåғғ™:
Duffman is thrusting in the direction of the problem.
@westfieldind:
All that shows is the trucks have different resonant frequencies.
@newfmike:
And that the tundra has a non-rigid mounted bed to reduce NVH. Drive next to a tundra on the highway sometime....the bed wiggles and giggles like a bowl full of jelly.
I had worked at company in the Northeast USA where one of the guys had won a NY Mets Nissan pickup by a drawing of seat numbers at the stadium. I think he had to keep the Mets logo and car dealership name on the truck for a couple of years. That was easy as, by the time I saw the truck, the paint and decals were faded badly, it had started rusting out, and needed a sever interior clean out...
@Maxximtl:
Does it do the same loaded? I imagine the dynamics change a lot.
Silly tuned test anyway of an unloaded truck going too fast for road conditions.
I'll bet some baseball-loving hoon steals the damn truck and runs it around the outfield tearing up the sod. I'd pay to see that.
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