Fuck Akio and Toyota
Easy: So I can scratch Toyota from the list of potentially interesting car companies for my next car.
You can simply scratch every single new car from that list while you’re at it. Every single one is a massive privacy violation with zero right to repair and corporations that soft-support the Nazi’s in myriad ways. Buy used and repair yourself, or walk.
I’m learning a hard lesson that you can’t fix much after ~2016 either. You can replace the parts, but good luck resetting the computers without proprietary dealership software.
Most manufacturer software is easy to find online.
Are you allowed to share or at least hint? Interested in this.
I have BMW (ISTA) and Toyota (Techstream) software. Both are easy to find if you search for it.
soft-support the Nazi’s in myriad ways.
Porsche, Mercedes Benz, Mitsubishi, Subaru, BMW, and VW: “Haha yeah, soft support, riiiight…”
I love my 14 year old vw with no smart system (what little smart infotainment system it has hasn’t worked since I bought it and I’m replacing it with a regular stereo eventually) that I bought with a little cash. It has no frills like blind spot detection, lane stuff, nor backup camera, and I love it. But it has the right frills like heated seats and a sunroof.
I’m not sure I want a newer vehicle.
Maybe not Slate. We’ll see.
Isn’t that the one created/owned by Amazon? I’m not sure you’ll be correct.
Bezos is an investor, yes. I don’t think he has actual direct control over anything though.
Its literally funded by Amazon. Hard fucking pass.
It’s still required to have all the mandatory safety systems like automatic braking, back up camera etc. And to have those systems, all the brake and steering systems will require the same electronics as every other brand. It’s also why Toyota techs hate working on the Supra, because it actually uses design/tech from this decade, and it even uses BMW electronics that are two generations behind current BMWs.
Reminder: Toyota is also the third biggest anti climate lobbyist in the world
Also largest supplier of mobile weapons platform aka Hilux pickup truck.
a great unit(similar) CNC generals.
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.
And hydrogen cars that have almost a dozen available filling stations!
The Subaru models are better, too. Like, way better.
The fact that I’ll probably never be able to afford a new car again gets easier to accept every year it seems. Yay? I guess?
That’s okay, the people making money off of you are having a good time.
what would you want a new car for anyways?
they:
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track you and harvest and sell your data
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are not easy to repair because they are not designed for it
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are designed as obnoxiously as possible (see: blinding headlights, blind spots, size, noise levels from weight and wheel size, etc)
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have excessive amounts of shitty tech ‘solutions’ to fulfill simple requirements (yes Daddy I loooove navigating menus on a touchscreen for my climate control and headlights)
you couldn’t pay me to drive the average new car. I just bought a 2012 that I don’t even know if it passes safety yet, because it’s better than spending twice as much in something newer and inevitably shittier, even after considering the unknowns that will pop up. at least the problems my 2012 will have will be fixable.
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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.
Fuck, same.
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Cracking up that the photo is in front of a Ford
Is that the Mr. Toyota Trump was talking about?
Yes Akio Toyota
I always confuse him with Akira Nissan
The name isn’t a coincidence. Akio Toyoda is a classic generational wealth nepo baby, the grandson of the founder of Toyota. Of course he’d be a Trumper.
The name of the company is read with a “ta” instead of “da” because of some Japanese numerology superstition reasons that I don’t fully understand.
Honda it is then
Honda is bending to Maga too.
Honda, GM and Chrysler have all cancelled plans of opening / expanding Factories in Canada, some that were already subsidied by the local governments, in favor of caving to US demands of returning manufacturing there instead.
Well that may just be business prudence. In a world where Trump might wake up, see a picture of Trudeau kissing Katie Perry, and decide to make your cars 300% more expensive because fuck everyone, it’s probably wiser to just not take that risk…
They can also control the US by just denying them vehicles. Hondas are incredibly popular vehicles, and removing them and their parts from the market would piss a LOT of people off.
Capitalism is where the money is the important part and has the power yet whenever these corporations find themselves in a position where the system could actually function in some vaguely beneficial way for society they still fall all over themselves to suck off whatever shitstain is causing problems.
It all comes back to shareholder primacy. Dodge v Ford decided that corporations must act first and foremost in the interest of shareholders. And the more modern Friedman doctrine decrees that they should cater to those interests not only primarily, but exclusively, even at the expense of all others.
Honda could try a bargaining tactic like that. And their shareholders could sue the shit out of them. And the shareholders would win. Because our model of corporate governance is fucked.
Always has been.
Nissan it is then.
Nissans are unfortunately no longer considered reliable, due to often short-lived CVTs
The Pathfinder, Frontier and the Armada have standard ZF automatic trans, no CVTs.
I’ve always loved Honda personally, nissan is still an option especially now with them keeping the V6 and 9speed auto on those 3 models.
Last I checked, they did have MT options on some vehicles still.
That’s a bummer. I love my old gen2 Priussy.
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.
Pretty big cost difference, unfortunately.
Just not their second row suvs that somehow don’t have arm rests.
Fuck cars.
Hot take.
Especially at the temps an exhaust runs at. No one should fuck that.
More Tundras sold = more money
The CEO of Toyota is named Toyoda?
Yeah it’s a family like Ford
Excuse me, did you perhaps mean Fort?
Oh, Mr Night?
