Here is the FJ’s shifter:

Don’t get me wrong, I love a good manual. I’ve owned the best from Honda — S2000 and NSX — and they were both a joy to drive.

So there is really no extra cost to let the customer custom order their car.

I can’t understand why in this day and age of automation, a company like Toyota still refuses to let their customers custom order their cars like BMW does.

Ooh a Nissan RWD chassis with a Honda powerplant and manual sounds yummy

The result of the Honda / Nissan / Mitsubishi merger will be a simple case of what each one of them does well, and what the others don’t do at all.

I struggle to remember a time after the 90's where I heard a single car friend say “I want to buy a Mitsubishi”, for 20+ years they’ve been relegated to the “they’re still Japanese and reliable, right?” role whenever some 20-something went to Honda and Toyota first and thought they were too expensive.

‘24 Tacoma, ‘24 LC500 convertible, ‘18 4Runner and ‘97 Supra.

I have a ‘24 Tacoma SR5 Xtracab with cold weather package. It’s excellent. 27 MPG Denver to Durango and back. Last truck I’ll ever buy.

I don’t think this take is right. Toyota has led the hybrid drivetrain segment for over 20 years (they released the Prius 6 months after Honda’s Insight). And both Toyota and Honda are suffering on reliability by adopting smaller displacement turbocharged engines over the last few years.

I think Toyota’s problem with…

With a range of up to 247 miles and access to Tesla’s NACS charging network using an adapter, the Bolt is an excellent car for city commuting or long-distance driving.

As long as Liam understands that he better always be second, then he’ll get along at RB just fine. An actual 2nd driver that could challenge Max would make Nico-vs-Lewis look like a romantic comedy.

A Subaru Outback or Forester literally can’t go where my 4Runner does offroad because the 4Runner has low range and no modern Subaru does.

“I want a car that can go offroad but also drive at autobahn speeds”

Common Colorado problem: people who can only afford / have space for one vehicle but want it to do all the Colorado things like: go offroad, canyon carve, get them to work on a snowy day.

They just don’t care about “Speed” or “Performance”.

I do a lot of FJ / 4Runner offroading here in Colorado. One attribute of the perfect trail is firstly a trail hard enough to keep the Subarus away. This can be a single obstacle (what we call a “Subaru stopper”) or just a steep / narrow enough trail that the Subaru’s lack of low range keeps them away. Easier trails…

Broke into his house while he was home, took his wallet and keys then stole his car. And the solution is to replace the car with something less flashy and hope the thieves ignore it?

One of the things I dislike about the new Land Cruiser is the ~4 inch bump in the rear cargo area from the hybrid battery.

Vice article from August 2020 - https://www.vice.com/en/article/secret-service-phone-location-data-babel-street/

that thinks Trump wouldn’t be the one to use this system to