The Wicked Cool Easter Egg on the 2023 Toyota Sequoia
This Easter egg on the 2023 Toyota Sequoia is pretty subtle, but it didn’t take too long to uncover.
Easter eggs, automotive and otherwise, are nothing new. Sometimes, as with the one recently found in Windows 1.0, they take decades to discover. Other examples, like the tiny Jeep silhouette visible on Wrangler windshields, or the “American hieroglyphics” found under passenger seat carpet of fourth-generation Corvette convertibles, come to light sooner. And while the Easter egg on the 2023 Toyota Sequoia didn’t take all that long to uncover? It’s one of the coolest I’ve seen yet.
Eagle-eyed connoisseur of “quirks and features” Doug DeMuro caught this one, which requires a working knowledge of a virtually extinct language — Morse code. As the photo below shows, embedded in the pattern at the lower corner of the front windshield in a massage which spells out “Badass Trucks.” Personally, I’m looking forward to the video where he explains exactly how this caught his eye. Perhaps we’ll learn that he’s a ham radio enthusiast as well as a car nut? Only time will tell.
Today I’m in Texas filming the new Toyota Sequoia.
Fun fact: at the base of the windshield, the phrase “BADASS TRUCKS” is written in Morse Code! An amazingly obscure hidden Easter egg. pic.twitter.com/t8ptM8oGhX
— Doug DeMuro (@DougDeMuro) May 30, 2022
Just after DeMuro posted the find, another user on Twitter confirmed that surreptitious script also appears on the new 2022 Tundra. That makes it particularly interesting, because that means that the car world’s most famous YouTuber likely missed it during his initial review of Toyota’s new big rig. And to be clear? I’m not throwing shade, especially since I often can’t even figure out how to achieve a comfortable pace for the windshield wipers on some of my press cars. Sometimes, Seattle’s famous rain makes things hard.
After the launch of the GT86, I remember learning about all the way the engineers gave a very subtle nod to the vehicle’s name by way of the exhaust pipes, which are each 86mm across. So now, I’m wondering what other little Easter eggs have been hidden in Toyota vehicles over the years. If you happen to know of one, hit me up, and make sure to tell me how you came across it!
Photos: Toyota