Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

To: davetex

No brainer, get the FJ.

please elaborate?


10 posted on 02/19/2007 6:42:16 PM PST by Chickensoup (WE are the media....The New Media.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies ]


To: Chickensoup

My Son in Law works for Toyota. I've seen one from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Expo caked in mud inside and out, they washed down the inside with a high pressure water hose to clean it. All electronics are sealed so you can do that without damage. Also the seats are made to air dry with no damage. It's a Toyota, they make good stuff.


14 posted on 02/19/2007 6:49:11 PM PST by davetex (There are no stupid questions, however there does seem to be an abundance of inquisitive idiots.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies ]

To: Chickensoup

I bought my first Toyota in 1976. I have had NOTHING else since. Two Celicas and two Tacomas.

My last "American" car was a bomb called a Mercury Capri. Very fast and snappy. But everything CONCEIVABLE went on it from the battery to the transmission to the alternator to just about everything else - all in two years. They even mixed metic and standard screws in it.

Never had serious problems with the Toyotas. Put 130 miles on one clutch.

Just check out the Automobile reliability record in Consumer Affairs of any model you intend to buy. Some of them are made in America and not by the Japanese (sad isn't it - the people who made the U.S.S. Missouri and U.S.S. New Jersey and the Chance-Vought Corsair can't make a decent car anymore.)

The four cylinder Tacoma has a great rating - has a timing chain instead of a timing belt in the engine - the sixes are less reliable. The Tundra has a great reliability record. Don't know how well the SUVs stand up but the
Land Cruiser is one of the best if you can afford the cash and the gasoline. They also have a pricey hybrid available if you care about the ozone holes incinerating Arabia (I don't).


25 posted on 02/19/2007 7:26:19 PM PST by ZULU (Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts and guns made America great.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson