What is going on with Toyota?
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They saw Nissan and said we want some of that
Propflux01
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They are slowly adopting the GM/Ford stance of the 70's and 80's. Too big to care.
I understand supply chain issues plague many manufacturers. Not an excuse, but certainly a problem.
It is sad to see the mighty Toyota struggle. If you can't trust Toyota, who can you trust?
It is sad to see the mighty Toyota struggle. If you can't trust Toyota, who can you trust?
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Toyota said: “hold my beer. Challenge accepted.”
I read the same thing for two years about the 3.4L and now 105,000 vehicles are getting long blocks. I’m not saying it’s the end of the world but there seems to be more issues than normal with recent releases.
Back when the 1st gen Tundra was introduced, there were some issues for a couple of years. Chronically bad brakes and more than a few bad transmissions. The 2007 Tundra had growing pains as well. I am less familiar with the Tacomas over the years.
The TT 3.4 V6 engines failing isn’t great and it’s quite a big deal, but this other stuff mentioned doesn’t peg the meter at all. How much of it is hyped up to get views on youtube, just hard to know for sure.
Were those vehicles designed in Japan or where?
Sabotage to hurt competition and also to clear some path to electric?
Sabotage to hurt competition and also to clear some path to electric?
Nick1994
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I thought it was 3.5 TT engines? Lexus has a 3.4 TT out right now that I haven’t heard of any issues with.
As in purposely drive buyers away by intensionally making unreliable ICE-driven vehicles hoping they will someday forgive your sin of making a terribly unreliable vehicle and then buy your POS electric vehicles? That’s some next level marketing genius there...
They are both 3.4L.
Sneak attack! I wouldn't put it past that Elon guy; he's wack!
I am sure these problems will get fixed - but honestly Toyota has had plenty of problems over the years. Maybe some amount less than everyone else, but all Toyota issues seemed to get ignored or repressed, in the media, on the web, here.
Perhaps they aren't spending enough on adds to bribe the auto media anymore
Perhaps they aren't spending enough on adds to bribe the auto media anymore
edyvw
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I have been telling you guys here for a long time that Toyota and complexity always had mediocre results. In Europe, these things have been happening for 20+ years, and before that, they did not happen just because cars would rot before they would fail mechanically.
They had very good recipe before: be behind others 20-25yrs, and polish technology that other introduced and abandoned by now. Now they decided to try to catch up. Well, it takes time. In those 20-25 years, others acquired know-how.
They had very good recipe before: be behind others 20-25yrs, and polish technology that other introduced and abandoned by now. Now they decided to try to catch up. Well, it takes time. In those 20-25 years, others acquired know-how.
