My Take: Full-Screen clusters suck, especially since no one uses OLED displays. You always get horrendous background glow at night since LCDs have poor contrast, and let through a lot of light - even with a pure black background.

Using 2/3rds of the screen to display the truck in different scenarios is just such…

I guess saying “F1 Technology” is a lot more sexy than “1980s Honda Civic Technology”. What’s old is new again..

There is “macro” and “micro” environment. Yes a car running and driving can generate a lot of emissions. But those emissions don’t usually end up directly in a person’s local aquifer.

David,

It doesn’t punish poor people. Why would a poor person buy a broken, unregistered car and then leave it sitting outside of their garage for 2 weeks? Let’s say a poor person’s car broke - why would they remove the license plate, unregister it, and then let it sit for weeks on end?

If a poor person had a car that was…

It’s not needing to read minds. It’s not that your Jeep has no hood. It’s that it’s covered in an ugly tarp, with tires on top of it. Then right behind it is another broken vehicle with tires and cardboard on it sitting up on jackstands. Then you have another vehicle that’s all smashed up.

I don’t think anyone really has a problem with unregistered or broken cars. The problem is you have 7 unregistered, very visibly broken cars, covered in tattered tarps, tires thrown on top, being held up by jackstands, and without any real apparent progress being made on them.

Iterative improvements are also monumentally expensive and difficult from a manufacturing perspective. There’s a reason why most modern cars now have 3-5 year life cycles before being refreshed.

“Traditional” automakers used to have nearly yearly changes back in the 50s and 60s, but they don’t do that anymore.

Yep, didn’t argue otherwise.

Not the 22R. The engine in that video was a diesel.

Lots of performance motors, but let’s be honest here. The most legendary engine of all time is probably the Toyota 5S-FE. The boring little ~130HP 2.2L 4-Cylinder fitted to tens of millions of Toyota Camrys.

Those half-shafts and control arms look pretty freaking short. Doesn’t really appear to be materially different than the Ranger or Everest. Doesn’t bode well for lifting or off-road articulation.

Front end/grille styling trends are ridiculous.

90s Cars: We don’t actually need all of the grille area for our weak, lethargic engines, let’s do something unique, get rid of the grill altogether and hide the air intake slots under the bumper and elsewhere.

That’s over an inch of extra width. That’s pretty significant.

Yep. It was novel at first, but after 50 episodes of essentially the exact same content it gets old. You can even hear the shift in their enthusiasm from being genuine to obviously feigned.

However their Beyond The Press channel, where they show content they actually are clearly quite passionate about is much better.

The difference is those were scientists and engineers asking those questions to complete a specific and important task. In this case, we have people asking these questions to see how many people they can pander to on YouTube, not because they’re genuinely curious.

When you watch enough independent vs. “bigger” YouTube…

You’re mixing up “low effort” on the production/creativity side with the actual “effort” needed to complete a particular task.

When I watch channels like Garage 54, it’s clearly not natural spontaneity driving the actions they do. You can tell they’re not doing these things because they necessarily “want” to, but…

He’s more recently transitioned to product reviews and comparisons, but he has a long series of completely and utterly mindless videos: “WILL A GAS ENGINE RUN ON DIESEL? WILL A GAS ENGINE RUN ON KEROSENE? WILL A GAS ENGINE RUN ON *insert flammable liquid that the engine will almost certainly run on here*).

It’s just…

Garage 54 is just as bad as Project Farm and all of those other awful click-bait-low-hanging-fruit channels. Will X run on Y!? What happens to A if we do B!? Can we stick B and C together!?!?? CLICK TO FIND OUT!!!!!!! Don’t forget to subscribe and join our Patreon for EXCLUSIVE BEHIND THE SCENES FOOTAGE.

It’s just as…

Yes they’re the same car, but Toyota would still need to update all of its internal documentation, support structure, train dealers, etc... how to use and diagnose the new software. So it’s not quite as simple as just plug n’ play. I’m sure it’ll get Android Auto support eventually.