Toyota is seriously winning me over. The Morse code Easter egg on the Tundra and Sequoia really spoke to me...this is a company that wants to build ‘badass trucks’ and they are literally the ONLY one that seems to want to do that. Everyone else is looking to force people towards pie-in-the-sky BS and Toyota is trying to do things for their customers. My next vehicle will be a Toyota and hopefully they put that hybrid turbo 6 in a 4-Runner so I can have a baddass SUV that’s almost as quick as my V8 Pathfinder.
I bought my first new Toyota in 1976. 147,000 miles in the cold and mud. Next that was followed by five new Toyotas, 180,000 miles, 297,000 miles, 173,000 miles, 283,000 miles, and my current one, a 2020 Land Cruiser off-roading model at 107,000 miles. All original engine, regular maintenance. Only one ever died while on the road. I was distracted by my girlfriend, didn’t notice the engine temperature going up. The temperature was also going up elsewhere.
I was a hard core Ford guy up until Sept 2020 when I purchased a 20 Toyota Tacoma.
My next vehicle? easy...Toyota.