> not constantly modulate it back and forth

“overbuilt and underpowered.”

Its more than just corporate profit mongering. The way they evaluate quality, for example, there is alot of short term thinking, quick cheap fixes for issues instead of expensive redesigns.

Considering most Toyota products are consider “old” now, especially their large SUVs, you’d think people would stop buying them. The 4Runner, Land Cruiser and Tundra/Sequoia are all at least 10 years old. The 4Runner is still having great sales.

The “high road”/”low road”-approach has been discussed for decades. GM knows how to break a brand with its crap (witness Lopez at Opel and a steady decline until selloff due to craptacular quality). It is all a conscious choice, just as ditching cars in favour of monstrous vehicles is - it’s the ‘70s on repeat. The…

Time I have kept my current lineup:

They build reliable cars by using time-tested tech and by not pushing that tech to the outer limit of performance.

Honestly, the age of the platform is frequently a selling feature for the kind of people who buy Japanese midsize trucks-IE, both my dad and my father-in-law, who bought a Tacoma and a Frontier respectively and mentioned the fact that ‘They’ve been around for a while, so you know all the kinks have been worked out’ as…

Even a decent 4Runner is hard to find for under 10 grand, at least around here (PNW).

Throttle House precognitively answered your question yesterday. It doesn't matter what you don't want. It's what you need.

I frakking hate it that all the good software is subscription based now. I’m still using development software from three years ago because the new version costs $80 a year. For a Git frontend. I refuse to pay it.

That’s your reason?

That car is one of the least desirable bodies, with a plain color and over 150k miles. 26k is still way too much for that car.

“The question is why. Why would you use thicker, heavier metal if you didn’t have to?” He likely would have had to to make the Unibody construction strong enough to even think of coming close tot he towing and payload capacity. but with a driver and a quad in the back the thing looks like the front wheels are nearly…

You know 6 is not a statistically significant sample, right?  And I assume (hope) the question about keeping a car for 100,000 miles is a joke.

But this won’t have any of the most troublesome parts. D’ya think of that?!?

You must live a charmed life. 

“Friendly neighborhood car sales men here...”

I guess, but I understand what they are doing and it makes sense. I do like that the GLA45 AMG and the GLE450 have almost the same output, 375 and 362. It makes sense, especially when the C43 AMG of the early 00's was making 302hp from a NA 4.3L and the C55 AMG was at 362hp 14 years ago. The 45/450 seem to be very…

Just seems like putting your critique in direct response to his heartfelt goodbye was a little strong. I guess just not reading his articles wasn’t an option?