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Lexus ES350 or Toyota Avalon, hybrid if you want more mpgs. If you wanted rwd, sportiness and more room I would suggest a gs350. The benefit of these cars is the more common maintenance items are shared with regular Toyotas (oil filters, key fob batteries, interior dome light bulbs) so your not searching hard and far

Lol! Exactly what i was thinking. Modern trucks pollute so much less then AIR COOLED 911 designed to burn oil. There's a reason in 1998 Porsche went watercooled because they couldn't even meet modern emissions globally with fuel injection and catalytic converters.

You do know modern diesel trucks after 2007 can’t turn on and off frequently due to their emissions equipment and particulate filters especially if the truck isn't fully warmed up. If he does that to much in one day we would have to do a regen which literally burns the soot off of it using extremely high egts. Believe

But what if you have to go offroad or tow a heavy trailer. You can’t rent a vehicle that does that unless you own a business and have a corporate account. I worked at enterprise for years and they do not allow offroad travels or towing with those halftons which is why they purposely option them out without trailer

What about the guy who has a boat, rv, race car trailer, farmer, landlord or small business? Yea I know most people buy more truck then they need but if you need to tow a trailer the size of your truck directly correlates to how big a trailer you can tow. The longer the wheelbase and heavier a truck is the less chance

Thankyou for understanding this unlike everybody else. The diesel crowd will not budge until they start getting outraced pulling their fully loaded trailer uphill. Once that happens they all will get one and I believe all HD trucks within 10 years will mostly be ev. Diesel will still have its place for people who

The difference in the h2 is that it uses 3/4 ton 2500 Chevy Silverado running gear, hence the 6.0 iron block, 4 speed HD trans (not the allison) front suspension and rear differential from the 2500 gas truck. Outside of the 2500 suburban (the one the CIA and feds use with 8 lugs wheels unlike the 1500 we see in movies

Why is everyone mad at GM for playing it safe during the early 90s? They were only playing the smart move of building trucks and suvs at a time consumers started buying more suvs then cars. Throw in gas being was less then $1 per gallon and our own government passing the “hummer tax” essentially making large luxury ruc

That struck me as weird also when multiple generations of Corvette’s have had overheating problems, even leading to various lawsuits from Z06 owners. Im hoping they mean 100 degrees with ac on flat out on a race track and not just cruising on the highway stop and go traffic ac on 100 degrees capable.

Another reason sedans are dying is because of pets and lack of wagon options. If you have kids with 2 child/booster seats and a medium size dog there isn’t enough room for all and putting your dog in the trunk will have PETA all over you. Then throw in awd and a trailer hitch with a towing capacity big enough to put a

I feel your pain but I only really use 4wd at the jobsite and living in the south we dont get much snow. I suggest to get the best of both worlds with a 4x4 with a full time system like a Landcruiser or landrover discovery. Lexus gx460s and old v8 4runners have full time systems that act like awd until the center

Thankyou! Did we forget the typical camry customer isn't concerned with launching out of tight apexes trying to put all 206hp down lol. The average customer just wants to be able to leave a stop light in the snow that is at a steep incline or help getting into their steep driveway. A system anymore complicated will

Judge Toyota all you want but adding AWD to your #1 selling sedan is probably the only thing Toyota can do to keep people out of rav4's. I know most people want a sedan but get put off by their significant other who just HAS to have awd. And unless your shopping under a premium badge outside of Subaru theres no

I still think that he should've lost his first place title. How u push someone obviously winning the race on the last turn of a race and don't get no type of black flag. I feel like any other racing series would've punished him because he could've went hi when he newman went low and just passed him the old fashioned

Exactly what I was thinking. Since Toyota discontinued the x runner performance truck with the 6 speed i would have put that suspension and wheels on it but with the new body. And the x runner was extended cab only so he could say itsthe only TRD pro x runner single cab 4 cylinder and sold it for $10k easily.

Crack pipe! Stick shift, no 4wd and 2.7 engine. If this was a v6 auto without salvage title that had the full body and oem suspension and wheels from a trd pro then yea. But this is just a base model Tacoma that had a really bad accident and he paid extra for mew front end and bed with wheels and a "lift kit" smh.

I agree. F40 might be faster but a detuned v12 out of a race car with individual throttle bodies revving over 8000rpms and a gated manual shifter and removable hard top sounds way better then a turbo v8 in a hard top. Plus I heard the f50 is more playful at the limit due to its normally aspirated engine giving more

If Cadillac doesn’t put this engine in the new Escalade in a super hi end platinum diamond whatever trimto one up the twin turbo v6 in the navigator! I can see the commercials now, “why have a twin turbo v6 in your full size luxury suv when you can have a more powerful twin turbo v8"! This would literally be a money

They need to target the fleet companies with a stripper 4x4 hardtop with the 4 cylinder turbo. This would be great with a vinyl interior package and few luxury features for around $25k if your business requires off road capability over towing or hauling. Think powerline companies, mining companies or land surveyors.

I used to sell used cars for a living and the amount of miles you can find on a es300/es330/camry/Avalon where everything STILL worked even approaching almost 250,000 miles. And this is around the same generation og accords and cl/tl with the bad torque converters that fail that makes these cars the default boring