Care to compare W2's?   

IDK, there’s plenty of good reasons why the damned things don’t depreciate, also, Toyota doesn’t stack cash on the hood either. It’s gotta be a lot more than “fanboys”. 

I’ve owned a 2018 Taco for 2.5 years now, absolutely zero problems whatsoever. None. 

truck-dependent country like Canada

Taco disagrees

I worked for Xilinx for five years, yeah I know what they are. I currently work for a company that does SOC’s that are ARM based. So yeah, I know what I’m talking about.

LOL Xilinx did this back in the late 90's where they embedded PowerPC cores, it’s nothing really new. From your link: “The ARM® Cortex®-A9 CPUs are the heart of the PS”. A9? Could work fine in a coffee machine :)

My 2018 Taco SR5 4WD quad cab lease is up in February, more than likely have 20k miles on it by then. I’ll buy it out for $28k + tax.

They’re field programmable “gate arrays”, you code to them in VHDL using Xilinx’s toolchain (typically). The ARM cores are for the most part useless as they’re not typically the latest and greatest, but useful for overall partitioning and control.  Signed, a geek

We have tickets to Maui November 10th, looks like that’s a total loss. We planned and paid for the tickets 18 months ago. Disappointing as we haven’t had a vacation in many years.

Europeans are considerably more intelligent than the average American, you can fix ignorance but you can’t fix stupid. 

Roundabouts are a disaster, they’re all over Washington state and parts of Oregon. Too many people don’t know how they’re supposed to work and treat them as stop signs. Idiots.

I do, lived in both places. My WAG is WA is about 1.5x the cost, however, the WA salaries are higher so it’s likely a wash

My point is Ford showed what kind of company they are, indicative of a culture that should not be tolerated by consumers. Who knows that shenanigans they’re up to right now that could effect any or all of their vehicles? And when they do, the customer will be left with a worthless expensive piece of shit. How VW got…

Three separate appointments with three different Ford dealers and it was NOT fixed. They did shit. Ford denied there was a problem, even though there were many former engineers that came out in the press and told the truth. Ford is a lying sack of shit that intentionally produced faulty transmissions. Period.…

Ford fucked their customers with the autotragic transmission, they threw in the towel.

The biggest drag on profit and subsequently their stock price, is their awful quality. Setting aside billions to deal with warranty issues kills a business, and the autotragic fiasco turned off 100s of thousands of customers. Fuck em

My company is the number one supplier of semiconductors in the automotive market. Excerpts from the Q2 earnings call this week (published online, so public info):

But but but, the mentally challenged delusional orange orangutan claims we’re winning! Winning like no other! He wouldn’t lie would he? 

Lotsa back and forth on Boxster vs. Miata, I’ll chime in. I have a Cayman and my wife has a Miata: Cayman is much faster, handles better, is roomier inside, and some storage space. Miata has a great clutch. Hands down Porsche.