What is going on with Toyota?
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I consider myself to be a Toyota fan, but I am definitely not giving them a pass. I am extremely disappointed in the direction they seem to be taking.
I am critical of any manufacturer that puts out marginal products.
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The Civic is a car I like, based on what I’ve read and seen. Have not driven one in decades. Stick being available is a plus…top of the line is $32k I believe…(not R but normal)
I hope the big three pass Toyota….
Ok. I was kidding!
Ok. I was kidding!
Yes we have a 2010 Tacoma as a spare at work, soon to be sold and replaced by a 2015 Silverado 1500 4.3. It has been a reliable truck but it's half the mileage of my 2005 Silverado and the frame appears like it will have major issues in the next couple years....it had similar care to my 2005 up until a few years ago where I purchased the 2005 and then it got babied where the Tacoma has been neglected completely. It's needed a few repairs but if it had been anything else than a Toyota or 99-07 GM then it would have likely had some major issues.
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Well the car I really want is $140k more (911 Carrera S). People seem to drop 65k on what I refer to as the “nonsense” models. So I figure better to go higher, or lower. In between is a complete waste to me
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Ditto. They did better in the past. Their high initial quality lead to few problems in the first few years, but when they did break down and need stuff, they were not necessarily cheaper. More likely to hit (100k, 150k, 200k, take your pick, depending how far back you want to go) without drama--but then you wanted to get rid of it, as it would get expensive just like anything else. Nothing lasts forever.
Used to be, if you were the first owner of a Toyota, you didn't worry about it.
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Good question, or if it is thx certified with Dolby atmos for watching movies!
That's before dealer markup.
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The latest civic is a decent looking car. I prefer my last gen accord on looks, but if I needed a highway car to put miles on the latest civic would get a look.
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They should have stopped at the FJZ80.
Toyota is getting the attention right now but it makes me wonder about the future of reliability for all makes. I was always a gm guy and currently drive a 19.5 year old Silverado 1500 4x4 for work and it's been making me mileage $ for a few years now (with no payments). It makes more $ than I spend on maintenance but it won't last forever. I don't feel like I could ever keep the deal I have now because my mileage income would be less than the truck payments before you even consider repairs after warranty runs out. My employer just decided to switch to new leases to replace all the currently owned trucks over the next 2 years. Transmission and AC failures on the 2017 Silverado and 2018 f150 are part of what pushed them to the change.
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Good point and scary. If it is a good car, then nobody can have one. Instead get the ones that are not good. Lol
Is that before or after gov accomplices rob you with taxes?
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Not sure where or who division of Toyota is responsible for the Tacoma's suspension design.
If it was me tasked, I would have recommend heavy gauge stamping with appropriate post treatment or forged steel part design that could survive cyclic loading of the strut spring assembly top cap.
Aluminum castings if I'm seeing this is the case in the video where it broke off. Would have too much porous material structure to survive cyclic tension loads, its been fundamentally known that cast / metal injection molding materials are poor in a tension load environment but fairly to good in a compression load environment depending on the raw material and grade chosen.
Anyways this really shouldn't have gotten through as design review process have to go through the highest level of engineering review by senior and leadership role staff. Having been involved in multi-million dollar capital equipment projects, it would take some major oversight to let this pass into volume production approval.
Yeah but any good engineer would have seen that was a high load/high stress point.
I mean do you think they knew that and said "6061 T4 will work" or even some combination, of engineers knowing.......but even bean counters would have seen that steel is cheaper (well should be) or ???? Maybe some static load Ax to derive some dynamic load........
This is the QE part of me - that I must know. What the heck was the root cause?
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I have a hard time seeing their strategy of having the 4Runner and this Land Cruiser together on sale.
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