The Toyota Dyna is a light truck for commercial use. In the Japanese market, the Dyna is sold alongside its twin called Toyoace. The original Toyoace of 1956 was an improvement over the Toyota SKB Truck. Toyotas Dyna might just blow the whistle on the competition by combining spacious cab design, rugged mechanicals and a pedigree stretching back to the 1970s.

With a Gross Vehicle Weight of up to 3.5-tonnes and a payload of up to 1.5-tonnes, it could be suggested that the Japanese are tapping into a goldmine colonised by urban hauliers, builders and landscapers people who need fast, easy access to bulky loads. Youll never award the Dyna any prizes for great beauty. Like the geeky, bespectacled girl your classmates sympathy dated, the only looks the Dyna is likely to garner are ones of pity for its awkward profile, bluff lines and seemingly front heavy posture. Youd never give it front of house duties, but behind the scenes is where the Dyna should count. On paper, the truck stacks up well: plenty of live RandD, rigid construction and the addition of the brand new, state of the art common rail 2.5-litre D-4D engines. But commercial vehicles arent driven on paper The Dyna is aimed at quite a specialised sector of the market. As a dropside truck or in tipper form it is ideally suited to the movement of large, heavy objects that would be impractical to load into any other vehicle.