Q is for “Questionable executive decisions”

Outside of the OG 2GR with the dumb rubber hose issue that they updated in 2009 or so, the 3.5 is basically Toyota in a nutshell - make something dumb reliable, make minor iterative improvements and stuff it into anything and everything for 2 decades until they’re forced to move on from ICE.

Ah yes, the state trooper “trick”: Act like complete asshats behind you and either goad you into speeding up too much to switch lanes. I had this happen to me in broad daylight by an unmarked cruiser in MA. I was in the left lane moving along with everyone else when a blacked out, unmarked car came blasting up behind…

You’re so bad at this. So, so bad.

And perfectly placed hills that hide feet.

I mean... Rutgers. Honors English is probably learning how to spell beer brands so whoever is doing the quick mart run for the day won’t be confused.

Any time I see one now I gasp. Being in a major metro I see European exotic hyper cars and vintage Japanese imports on the regular and yes they’re cool, but spotting an early/mid 90s USDM Camry Wagon (in champagne???) is like getting a glimpse of Bigfoot before it ambles off into the urban jungle, never to be seen…

hnnnnnnnnggggg

Design and sheetmetal were *chefs kiss* perfect, but boy the early ‘00s silver colored plastics and fabrics were cheap and creaky and fell apart quickly. Still loved these things and wanted a Mazdaspeed version so bad. The “smiley” era 3 was technically a better car but the design didn’t match up to the Protege 5.

LOL I read that in his voice in my head.

“THE ONE TOYOTA YOU SHOULD NEVER OVERLOOK”

LOL that same cruise control stalk must be specced  on every Toyota since then because I’ve seen it on everything from Yaris (Yari?) to Lexus (Lexi?). And it is indeed perfectly cromulent.

Maybe the latest gen Lexus (Lexi?) models have it but I don’t think Toyota products had this feature through the mid 2010s.

Also the Camry V6’s upscale sibling the Lexus ES350. The LS gets all the classic Lexus love but the ES is the invisible overachieving middle child. They added extra noise dampening, nicer and better fitted interiors, and“old man back” suspension tuning to a Camry/Avalon base and created one of the most reliable and…

“I can’t imagine half of all voters (well, much less than half considering gerrymandering and voter suppression) have been duped by conspiracy theories or are so broken by the system they feel nothing but hate.”

Ugh years ago I was using totally fine and dependable AC Delco filters and decided to treat myself and tried out a fancy Fram one.  The first time I tried removing it with the band wrench, the stupid thing twisted and crushed. NEVER AGAIN.

I’m only a little disappointed that Mr Plow wasn’t mentioned in the list or the comments (yet). For shame, internet, for shame.

That feels more like the 70s. By the mid 80s it was full on “oh shizzles they’re eating our lunch, what the hell are we going to do” mode. And then they stumbled blindly ass backwards into SUVs and pickups in the 90s.

This was my immediate thought too along with possible factory level conversions for ICE models to hybrid or electric drivetrains.

It is our poor driver licensing requirements and testing.