ok do your logic is that it's ok if the Colorado has nice seats and a stereo but won't make it 200,000 miles yet a Tacoma that will easily last that long and longer is a piece of junk?

I've met probably 20 times more people who had serious issues with their f-150s than those with tacomas. That's not to say all tacomas are perfect but as a whole are one of the most solid trucks sold

My Dad's 02 Tacoma has 312,000 miles. My 96' Tacoma has 254,000 miles. Neither have seen the inside of a shop. This is why people continue to buy them. Because they know they aren't buying a piece of shit.

nope. Sorry. " vastly inferior" is an incorrect term when tacomas will generally go 100's of thousands of miles without a quip and have decades of history to back it up and GM built such rolling pieces of shit like the S-10 which ate their engines when the dexcool corroded the metal and half assed replacements like…

could be due to examples like my Dad. He was all excited about the Colorado for nothing more than the diesel option. Dealer wanted 30-something thousand. Nope.

I thought these were about the ugliest cars to ever roll off the GM assembly line when they were new and time hasn't softened that impression. The previous squared off design looks a hell of a lot better than this.

Wash. Rinse. Repeat. We Americans never learn. Gas priced go down... well must be time to go buy us some big trucks and SUVs. Gas prices rise... oh no!! Time to buy us some of those fuel efficient cars.

my reaction probably comes from comparing this design to the utterly boring lineup Nissan has these days. This looks wayyyyy better!

Its already a nightmare at least here in the SF Bay Area. Due to the boom and probably more people moving in my 30 mile commute went from 30 minutes to an hour and a half each way in the space of two years. In fact it got so bad I changed jobs to work closer to home. The freeways around here are turning into parking…

I've lived with my small truck for 20 years ( 96' Small model Tacoma ) and have moved myself across country with it and three years ago, moved an entire house from one side of the city to another ( 10 trips )

If you yearn for the utilitarian, no-bullshit,, purposefully designed vehicle then I'd recommend a mid-80's Toyota truck- the little ones. We had one when I was a kid and they were more or less like this car on the inside ( except done well)

True, the numbers I speak of are strictly north American in nature where BMW, Mercedes, VAG products and so on are on the list with all of the domestic brands as well as all of those from the large Japanese automakers. In general and for decades the rankings have been about the same. Toyota, Honda, and their luxury…

Seeing as how BMW as a brand is below GM in long term reliability it seems that many others agree.

let me boil it down to the basics. Given that BMW tends to over engineer the shit out of everything they make I wouldn't touch anything they make with a 10 foot pole. To me most of what BMW makes is a future liability on terms if repair costs. Anyway, the i3 to me is a big flaming pile of pooh and pity the person who…

yup. People using trucks... As trucks. No stupid "man ladder" down the back here.

regretfully your thinking was wrong.

No, its more that if you're going to engage in a conversation its better to validate claims via some facts.

So now the truth comes. You haven't driven EITHER car and so its basically your opinions versus my real-world experiences. For starters the Volt is actually faster than the i3. Not by much, but faster nonetheless. The numbers show that the i3 will go from 0-60 in about 7.1 seconds. The Volt will do that in 7 seconds…

I suppose you forgot to recall that I not only own a Volt but have driven the i3 and so what I assume if very unlikely your case, I've been able to compare the two and have driven EVs long enough to know what an EV drivetrain tends to feel and handle like. That an EV is either FWD or RWD isn't as much of a factor when…

So basically you didn't have a point.