The famous Baja 500 begins today in Ensenada, CA, and one of the larger amount of interesting dirt racers discovered by our friend Mike Levine at Pickuptrucks.com is the Tundra D-Cab PreRunner from TForce Motorsports. It looks good, has ridiculously huge King off-road racing shocks, and it’s owned by former Indy 500 champ Danny Sullivan, but that is not what makes such rally racer unique. Power for the PreRunner comes from none other than GM’s LS2 small-block. TForce crew member Matt Riggle told Levine so the commission chose the 375-hp, 400 lb-ft powerplant as of its reliability, as vastly as its ability to run on conventional Pemex gas that’s significantly cheaper than facing fuel.

For the record, Toyota performs not sponsor team TForce or its hopped-up PreRunner, but you can imagine that choosing a GM engine within one by Toyota due to the fact that of reliability isn’t exactly how the purchasers in Aichi, Japan like hearing.

[Source: Pickuptrucks.com]