Eh, you can still only buy the Foundation Edition with the extra $20k cost.  As soon as Tesla opens up purchasing to the $79,999 model sales will increase 10x.

Backlog of reserved orders, plus they’ve gotten over the supply chain issues with delivering it (not true for the other companies doing EV trucks).

Toyota is expert at replacing frames on pickup trucks.

Jesus only an hour?? So if someone keys your car or something but you don’t come back to your car in under an hour you have zero video??

If it were a CT she could have just ripped the window down like cheap wallpaper.

My guess is that the shape would help to move anything that was hit to the side of the vehicle instead of underneath it.

My neighbor had his frame replaced under Toyota’s recall; they also paid for him to have a rental car the entire time. This was on a nearly 20 year old truck, so yeah, they definitely can (and do) swap them. Cost has to be crazy for them, I’d imagine, but the alternative was even more costly, so...

100%, I can see the ice walls from here!

Yep, and dealers (and dealer techs) love recall work, easy money. The Toyota dealers I knew from frame recall days would have good techs that could double stack frame recalls. Get paid 16 hours for 8 hours of work.

Grew up in Nova Scotia and my dad traded cars every 4 - 5 years. Remembered a lot of rusty cars. I remember Ford trunks and hatches rusting all along the edge. Things changed in the late 80's early 90's with cars and corrosion protection. I now live in Chicagoland so less salt exposure but we have have 12 and 13 yo…

I get the 20, 30, 40 yards part but there’s a timed component too? The hell?  Could have gotten some extra word count by explaining the rules.

Welding would be difficult because the frame would need the coating fully removed inside and out (boxed sections). This would be especially difficult with the wax like coatings that are common on truck frames.

Mid ‘70s, I had a ‘66 Caprice, the frame rusted apart and broke while I was going about 20mph. The frame rail dug in and lifted the back end up and the right rear tire off the road, and ch-ch-ch marks were left in the asphalt.

Floorboards didn’t last 8 years.

Toyota just had the dealerships do it. I know a couple of people who had it done. Took a few days. They already had the techs, no reason to try to spin up some sort of central thing, hire a bunch of people, coordinate shipping a bunch of trucks around, etc.

It’s just a matter of unbolting parts from the old frame and bolting them to the new frame; a similar process as was done in the factory. Electrical cables are likely the most annoying. 

The joke is on Porsche. They think these cars are driven. They are only kept in temperature-controlled and taken to auctions every 5 or so years for the owner to make a profit. 

We’ve tried everything, except paying people what the job is worth, and we’re all out of ideas!

aircraft tire SME here, and came to post this. In my field we refer to the release plugs you mention as “fuse plugs”. Blowing the fuse plugs is usally a delayed effect thing, as you need time for the heat to go from the brakes to the wheel where the use plugs are. Most aircraft I work with have fuse plugs that melt in…

Looks fake, flat earth confirmed.