Fuck Akio and Toyota
Reminder: Toyota is also the third biggest anti climate lobbyist in the world
Also largest supplier of mobile weapons platform aka Hilux pickup truck.
Cracking up that the photo is in front of a Ford
I was that close to a GR Corolla too. Thanks for making this easier.
Is this the same Toyota that sells like one EV model? Not exactly stunning leadership.
One shitty EV they co developed with Subaru.
The Subaru models are better, too. Like, way better.
More Tundras sold = more money
Toyota lobbies hard against CAFE standards. They don’t wanna sell Priuses, they wanna sell TRUCKS!!!
Of course. They’re massively profitable.
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You can ignore half the emissions standards requirements
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People want them because they’re scared of driving a smaller vehicle while the other massive trucks on the road can crush them.
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They always talk about the ability to move things like furniture or equipment or things like thag despite only doing that twice a year, and rentals existing, including directly from places like Lowe’s and Home Depot.
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People are willing to pay a premium because they mistakenly think that bigger vehicles cost substantially more to make because bigger must mean a lot more material, despite most of a vehicle being empty space.
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This is absolutely true, but at the same time they killed the bulletproof 5.7 V8 and replaced it with a twin turbo v6 that just barely gives 200lbs extra towing and just craps all over itself every time ruining the Toyota worldwide name for reliability
Damn. Just finished up the payments on mine.
You purchased and paid it off before you knew, drive with a clear conscience until the wheels fall off and hope by then a better more ethical world exists.
I’m in the middle of my payment. I do hope, by the time I’m done, the world will have seen better leadership. But for now I will drive in shame nonetheless.
And sadly, Toyota about the only vehicle that I can comfortably sit in without my back being torn up.
You ever sat in a Volvo? Best seats ever.
Honestly, no, I have not. I’ll have to check it out.
Don’t knock preowned luxury cars either. 5+ year old used sedans with generally low mileage and usually comfort features (aka, old people who don’t drive a lot), around the price of a low end new car these days
Just not their second row suvs that somehow don’t have arm rests.
