El Toro Loco

El Toro Loco is a monster truck that drives on the Monster Jam circuit. It is owned by FELD Motorsports and driven by Marc McDonald, Chuck Werner, Becky McDonough, Mark List, Kayla Blood & Armando Castro. The truck resembles Bulldozer. El Toro Loco has been featured at every Monster Jam World Finals since 2003. El Toro Loco is featured in various monster truck video games: Monster Jam: Path of Destruction, Urban Assault, and Monster Jam: The Video Game.

History

 * 2001 - El Toro Loco debuts on the former NWO chassis with driver Lupe Soza.
 * 2003 - Lupe and the truck makes their first World Finals appearance, with a freestyle many thought should have won the event.
 * 2004 - Lupe Soza ties Madusa and Tom Meents with a 31 for the Freestyle Championship
 * 2007-2009 - Soza campaigns a special Advanced Auto Parts sponsored variant of El Toro Loco.
 * 2008 - FELD Motorsports built two more El Toro Loco trucks. One was ran by Nathan Weenk and toured with Randy Brown while the other was ran by Paul Cohen. Lupe's El Toro Loco gets a new paint scheme.
 * 2009 - Chris Baker takes over Nathan Weenk's El Toro Loco.
 * 2010 - Lupe Soza leaves the El Toro Loco team to drive the new Advance Auto Parts Grinder monster truck. Marc McDonald took his place. Chuck Werner began driving El Toro Loco for Team Meents.
 * 2011 - Chris Baker stops driving for Monster Jam. Bari Musawwir joins the El Toro Loco team.
 * 2012 - Musawwir left the El Toro Loco team to drive Spider-Man. Becky McDonough and Aaron Basl join the El Toro Loco team. Becky competes at the Young Guns Shootout. Morgan Kane drove an El Toro Loco in Atlanta, Georgia.
 * 2013 - Marc McDonald and Becky McDonough get new colors on their trucks. Marc gets a black colored El Toro Loco, while Becky's is yellow.
 * 2014 - Lupe Soza returns to El Toro Loco after Grinder is discontinued. Dan Rodoni runs an El Toro Loco body on The Patriot's chassis. Both would drive orange ones. Aaron Basl also leaves El Toro Loco to drive Wolverine. Later that year, it was announced that Becky McDonough will drive the yellow El Toro Loco is #MoreMonsterJam.
 * 2015 - Becky McDonough begins driving El Toro Loco in #MoreMonsterJam. She gets her 4th invitation to the Young Guns Shootout. Chuck Werner drives the truck on the Fox Sports 1 Series. Cynthia Gauthier drive the truck for the Manila show in the Philippines.
 * 2016 - Soza left the team to drive El Diablo. Kayla Blood and Mark List joins the team. Kayla would drive the yellow El Toro Loco for the West Coast More Monster Jam tour while List with the orange truck. Dan Evans filled in for Marc McDonald in Hidalgo, Texas. Tristan England took over the More Monster Jam El Toro Loco from Mark List part way through the season. Becky competes at the Fox Sports 1 Series, and for the 5th time in the young guns shootout. Becky would run an orange body on the El Diablo chassis for two weeks in April, for shows in Allentown, Pennsylvania and Evansville, Indiana. She would win six straight wheelie contests with the truck.
 * 2017 - all El Toro Loco's run the original orange body, though Marc McDonald continued to run the black body for the first few shows of the West Coast Fox Sports 1 Series. Marc went back to the red/orange in Jacksonville. Armando Castro joins the team. In March, the black body was used again for Joe Sylvester in Saudi Arabia.
 * 2018 - Marc McDonald partially left the team to drive FS1 Cleatus for the first quarter. Becky McDonough, Armando Castro, Mark List and Kayla Blood all return. A deal is made between Monster Jam and Steve Sims to run an El Toro Loco body on Hooked. with Bryan Wright behind the wheel. Bryan drove the truck on Monster Jam Stadium Tour 1, Becky McDonough competed with El Toro Loco at Stadium Tour 3 and Chuck Werner on Stadium Tour 2. Mark List, Kayla Blood, and Armando Castro competed at the Monster Jam Triple Threat Series. McDonough competes at World Finals 19 while List and Blood once again competes at the Double Down Showdown. Marc would later return to driving El Toro Loco in the European tour later that year.

World Finals Appearances

 * 2003- Lupe Soza
 * 2004- Lupe Soza (Won its world title)
 * 2005- Lupe Soza
 * 2006- Lupe Soza
 * 2007- Lupe Soza
 * 2008- Lupe Soza
 * 2009- Lupe Soza
 * 2010- Marc McDonald
 * 2011- Marc McDonald
 * 2012- Marc McDonald (YGS: Becky McDonough)
 * 2013- Marc McDonald (YGS: Becky McDonough)
 * 2014- Marc McDonald (YGS: Becky McDonough)
 * 2015- Marc McDonald (YGS: Becky McDonough)
 * 2016- Marc McDonald (YGS: Becky McDonough (yellow), Kayla Blood (orange))
 * 2017- Marc McDonald & Becky McDonough (DDS: Mark List, Kayla Blood) (all run orange bodies)
 * 2018- Becky McDonough (DDS: Mark List, Kayla Blood)

Merchandising
El Toro Loco is arguably one the most popular monster trucks. and it has had many other drivers besides the main 6. Ever since 2005, El Toro Loco has became a staple in the European tour. El Toro Loco has also been featured on many chassis, including The Patriot's chassis (owned by Dan Rodoni) and the Hooked chassis (owned by Steve Sims).

​Trivia

 * Armando Castro's chassis was originally used as Soldier Fortune: Black Ops for two shows before being converted to an El Toro Loco.
 * El Toro Loco is the only truck to compete in all Young Guns Shootout