Anything your hands and feet touch are BMW sourced parts. The transmission and engine are BMW, which will give it those characteristics.

Exactly what most Toyotas give... it’s actually a lack of sensation.

The bigger one is better at actually making money, hence bigger. The smaller one barely survives and actually has even had to partner with the big one to do so.

Exactly. One of the world’s smallest car companies find a way to make a small, lightweight, inexpensive sports car that has sold well for 25+ years. But a company that is something like 100x bigger has to find a partner to make a competing vehicle? This doesn’t compute.

Having driven both I can tell you dynamically they feel different. However if you’re sitting in a Supra, it definitely feels like you’re inside a BMW.

If the goal is to differentiate from Subaru, that seems counter-productive.

They could try lifting it and putting some black plastic cladding on the wheel wells, I hear that’s pretty popular.

Laguna engine in the Clio, I think.

2a I’m good with, implied is never a good idea in this kind of thing.

read the article

Shhh... He didn’t understand a thing from the article and he thought that the Jeep was towing, not being towed.

Why would the engine be on if the jeep was being towed? The rpm was strictly a result of the mechanical force being applied to the engine. 

Reading comprehension for the loss, eh?

ohhh no you don’t get back here, you no no no no one gets away nuh uh sorry no

It also depends on what you mean by “the best.” To many people, being ridiculously reliable is “the best.” To some it’s features, or sporty handling, styling, etc. There’s too many interpretations of “the best” for someone to say that Toyota objectively makes the best cars.

I’m done. That’s it. No more Torch for me. I can handle the lunatic obsessiveness over taillights. I can even handle the answers to questions that either nobody thought to ask or were patently obvious from the start. But now we’re into uncomfortably creepy territory, and that’s enough for me.

Honestly, Toyota should go full appliance mode, make it so bland and dependable that it just blends in. They could use the Matag man in the advertisements and show empty service bays. “Yeah it’s a Toyota”

Of those, the Yaris is the only one that’s “bad”, and even then its not bad, just not great. 

Tundra did exactly what it set out to do. It created a beach head for full size truck buyers in the US. It is the most reliable full size pickup with the highest resale value.

It is rare for Toyota to enter any category without objectively being the best. I am expecting something competent, dull looking, dual motor with 300 miles of range. The starting price will be in line with the Y and Mach-E. Performance numbers will go unmentioned.