2016 Toyota Tacoma Back to the Future Tribute

This 2016 Toyota Tacoma was built at Crown as a tribute to Marty McFly’s dream truck from Back to the Future. Round KC HiLiTES driving lights, a roll bar, and a lifted stance recreate the black 4×4 he never got to drive.

Status: Delivered

2016 Toyota Tacoma tribute truck, front view with round KC HiLiTES driving lights

2016 Toyota Tacoma tribute truck, front view with the KC HiLiTES lights illuminated

Rear roll bar with five round lights on a 2016 Toyota Tacoma Back to the Future tribute truck bed

Front grille and KC HiLiTES lights on a 2016 Toyota Tacoma Back to the Future tribute truck

Close-up of a KC HiLiTES driving light on a 2016 Toyota Tacoma tribute truck

Row of KC HiLiTES lights mounted on the roll bar of a Toyota Tacoma tribute truck

Chrome bed rail and tonneau cover hinge detail on a Toyota Tacoma tribute truck

Interior auxiliary light switch panel on a 2016 Toyota Tacoma tribute truck

Custom fuse box installed for the light bar wiring on a Toyota Tacoma tribute truck

Engine bay of a 2016 Toyota Tacoma Back to the Future tribute truck

KC HiLiTES driving light mounted on the front bumper of a Toyota Tacoma tribute truck

Detail of a KC HiLiTES light housing on a Toyota Tacoma Back to the Future tribute truck

Angled detail of a KC HiLiTES light on a Toyota Tacoma Back to the Future tribute truck

Marty’s dream.
Built real.

KC HiLiTES driving lights, roll bar, lifted stance

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Powertrain

Stock Toyota 4.0L V6, factory-clean engine bay
A-TRAC electronic traction control
Custom fuse box and switch panel for the light bar
Factory wiring integrated cleanly with new circuits

Chassis & Systems

KC HiLiTES round driving lights, front bumper pair
KC HiLiTES five-light roll bar, matching the film truck’s silhouette
Off-road suspension lift on all-terrain tires
Chrome step bars and tonneau cover

Straight off the lot.
Straight out of 1985.

The build in detail.

Before Marty McFly ever sees a DeLorean do anything strange, he stops outside Statler Toyota in the original 1985 film and just stares. A black 4×4 pickup sits on the lot, lifted, with a roll bar and round driving lights and off-road tires, and for one quiet moment it is the single thing in the whole movie he wants most, more than to fix anything, more than to go anywhere. He never gets to drive it. This 2016 Tacoma is Crown’s answer to that.

The recreation starts with the shape. Black paint, a lifted stance on all-terrain tires, chrome step bars, and a tonneau cover over the bed all echo the proportions of the truck from the film, updated onto a platform that actually exists to buy and drive today rather than a period-correct restoration project.

The signature detail is the lights. Two round KC HiLiTES driving lights mount to the front bumper, and five more run across the roll bar, exactly the arrangement the movie truck wore. Every one of them is wired through a custom fuse box and a dedicated switch panel built into the dash, work that has to be as clean as everything else on the truck or the whole tribute falls apart under close inspection.

Underneath the styling, this is a modern Tacoma through and through. A factory-clean 4.0-liter V6 and electronic A-TRAC traction control mean none of the compromises that came with an actual 1985 pickup. It left Crown looking like it drove straight off the movie lot and running like it just left the showroom.

Under the hood, power comes from a stock Toyota 4.0L V6 with a factory-clean engine bayA-TRAC electronic traction control. The lighting system is fed by a custom fuse box and switch panel, built into the dash alongside the factory wiringKC HiLiTES round driving lights, front bumper pair.

KC HiLiTES five-light roll bar, matching the film truck’s silhouette. Stopping and handling come from an off-road suspension lift on all-terrain tires.

Chrome step bars and tonneau coverA faithful recreation of the truck from Back to the FutureDelivered looking like it drove straight off the movie lot.