Despite what others have responded to you, you’re actually right in regards that Toyota has been aligning the Camry more with higher Japanese offerings in the Toyota line up such as the Japanese-market Crown. Historically, the Crown was the sort of entry ‘luxury’ sedan Toyota that you moved into when you didn’t go…

When I was over in Japan I rode in quite a few Toyota Crowns. Nowadays most all of Tokyo and the big cities use the Toyota JPN Taxi fleet vehicle but you can still find plenty of Crowns in use as taxis and in super rural areas old school Crowns are the go-to. The current generation Crown is a superbly nice vehicle.…

I feel a superbly big issue that probably #1 didn’t think about is that trucks historically in the United States tend to hold value fairly well. Even the lighter and smaller truck segments do a very good job of stymieing depreciation compared to say cars and entry CUV segments. It’s the type of vehicle that tends to…

The 08/09 crash is now frequently cited in economics. I took Econ 101 in 2010 and half the semester was spent dissecting what happened in 08/09. I had never read so much about housing in all my life.

I think it’s much more worse simply because it’s FIFA ‘21. Nothing against futbol whatsoever, but like any other sports title with a yearly refresh the second the newest year title comes out people are going to move onto the next thing, while the last year’s maybe lingers and then is completely obliterated once it’s +…

I had a 1999 Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder for ~ five years. It was terribly unreliable which I hated as it was a superbly nice looking car and I always got a lot of compliments on it. White, black top, black wheels, debadged and had the rear center tail garnish painted white to match the car. I had a lot of fun with it.…

I work as an archivist by trade, and it’s not as trivial as you may believe it is and - personally - I would argue the entire situation is actually worse that people may realize.

I read that article, but the thing about it is even the most basic of cheap cars in the United States is still pretty decent. We’re not living in the eras of say the 80s when sub-compact cars were cheap for being cheap, and your dash board would start to warp over two summer’s of ownership due to the heat. You can…

General Motors’ secondary air injection pumps would rate fairly high for me. All they seem to exist for is to cause check engine lights, and it’s either replace the pump or program the mess out.

?? What? A lot of radiators have brass fittings going into the plastic housings. Many modern automatics have a transmission cooler setup that uses the radiator for cooling. It’s brass fitting bases into plastic. You’re more likely to have issues with eventually heat flux with the plastics before anything involving the…

You expected Persona 6 to be announced?!

He did take a LONG look.

I’ve never felt as safe in Tokyo at night than I have anywhere else, even in my own neighborhood. I would leave my kid’s stroller and bags outside stores and nobody would touch it. I frequently walked everywhere from 9 PM - 2 AM in the morning and never felt like I would be victim of a crime. Hell I’m certain people…

I remember the last game I seriously marathon’ed was GTA V when it came out back in 2013, and that’s only because as an employee of the US Gov’t we suffered a Government shutdown and I was conveniently off of work. I had bought the game on PS3, wasn’t able to play it much, but then the Gov’t shutdown and all of a…

I despise the entire ‘sealed game’ market as a whole. I can somewhat understand it with cartridges, as most of us in the cartridge era of gaming discarded most everything but the game and the manual. It was packaging after all and like any toy you didn’t keep ‘packaging’. That makes complete and sealed games pretty…

AF Corse is partnering with Ferrari in Europe, so it’s very much possible. The only immediate issue I could see however is many of the US privateers like Risi and Scuderia Corsa very much enjoy cars like the 488 GT3 because it’s very easy to inter-op them among various GT3 series regs. You can also offload those cars…

It’s a Japanese word play. ‘Dig’ in Japanese itself is ‘horu’, so without being immediately familiar with the name in this game I’m guessing that it was possibly written 掘るホール, horu horu. Which weirdly enough is also a specific term for those post tools that you use to shove into the ground to pull dirt out of. I’m…

I have driven a DeLorean and it was pretty terrible. Any thoughts of it being sporty is squashed the second you press the accelerator.

The biggest issue for card collectors of any walk is that a signature directly onto a card’s surface automatically regulates a card to non-mint status. It’s further actually considered “damaged” by most graders and would even potentially be labeled as such during the grading process, ultimately affecting it’s grade.…

I dealt with something similar to this in regards to the SixAxis controller. I’ve only owned one PS3 console, but I’ve had to purchase a second controller after my original controller started to fritz out, not hold a charge, and lose some of the analog feel in the X button. Right when it finally decided to wear out,…