Fuck Akio and Toyota
Wonder how much it costs to sell your soul to trump. Wonder what this bozo wants from trump
Sounds like the NEXT AMERICAN BOYCOTT!!!
Ask Elon how that went!
DUMBASS! Can’t fix stupid!
Reminder: Toyota is also the third biggest anti climate lobbyist in the world
Also largest supplier of mobile weapons platform aka Hilux pickup truck.
Easy: So I can scratch Toyota from the list of potentially interesting car companies for my next car.
You can simply scratch every single new car from that list while you’re at it. Every single one is a massive privacy violation with zero right to repair and corporations that soft-support the Nazi’s in myriad ways. Buy used and repair yourself, or walk.
Maybe not Slate. We’ll see.
Isn’t that the one created/owned by Amazon? I’m not sure you’ll be correct.
Bezos is an investor, yes. I don’t think he has actual direct control over anything though.
I’m learning a hard lesson that you can’t fix much after ~2016 either. You can replace the parts, but good luck resetting the computers without proprietary dealership software.
Most manufacturer software is easy to find online.
Are you allowed to share or at least hint? Interested in this.
I have BMW (ISTA) and Toyota (Techstream) software. Both are easy to find if you search for it.
Yeah, you have to go back to the 2000s-2010s era and when abundant spare parts and junkyards start to run out, be prepared to invest new-car level cash in custom fabrication and mechanical work to keep it on the road. Cars don’t really have to be as complicated or expensive as they are, but for now, they’re always going to be. People have always been custom-building cars for show, for history, for racing, for performance, and pretty soon we’re going to start doing it for daily drivers too, and it’ll stay that way until they start changing the laws to try to force these cars off the road for environmental reasons. Until then, support your local custom car builders, they’re going to become the future of repairable cars, at least when it comes to the pre-EV gas guzzlers.
Basically, start taking notes from Cuban car culture. They’re custom fabricating everything to keep their yank tanks operating.
They are literally the only ones who make a decent car anymore. Every other brand is horrible and constantly breaks down.
Uhhh… Subaru?
Man, we had a Subaru outback for a while. Still miss the space, but the interior flooded every time it rained.
Turns out, the roof doesn’t actually have a place to shed water externally - it drains through the car before going out the bottom. Apparently part of regular maintenance involves cleaning out that channel… and where we live has enough tree debris that it always clogged up early, and backed up into the passenger compartment.
Now, I don’t know a lot about car design… but draining the roof through the body of the car, in such a way that you have to have a service tech see to it to keep it weatherproof? Makes me wonder what else might be waiting to go wrong.
What model year was that? Never heard of such a thing. I suspect you had a defective car.
I want to say 2014-2016? It was bizarre, but the dealership didn’t seem to have any notion that it was a real problem. Just kept hearing back “Oh yeah, sounds like it needs blown out again” whenever it happened.
And it was never a problem right after it was serviced, just in the month or two before it was due to be serviced again. It seemed like there was a SOP that could address it, it just required frequent maintenance to be able to handle rain falling on the roof.
That’s so weird. I know two people with that model year who don’t have that issue. Your comment spurred me to ask around. Very weird, sorry you had to deal with that.
Yeah, like I said, it sounds like normal maintenance is enough to keep up with the “typical” use case. We live in an area with a lot of trees, and had nowhere to park it where debris didn’t clog it fast, apparently. They did recommend we park it in the garage at one point, but… the car was longer than our garage! Seemed silly to renovate our house to expand our garage when the problem was that the car wasn’t built to shed dirty rainwater safely, so we sold it and got a shorter car instead.
The CEO of Toyota is named Toyoda?
Although the founding family’s name was written in the Kanji “豊田” (rendered as “Toyoda”), the company name was changed to a similar word in katakana - トヨタ (rendered as “Toyota”) because the latter has 8 strokes which is regarded as a lucky number in East Asian culture.
That’s pretty interesting.
Honda it is then
Honda is bending to Maga too.
Honda, GM and Chrysler have all cancelled plans of opening / expanding Factories in Canada, some that were already subsidied by the local governments, in favor of caving to US demands of returning manufacturing there instead.
Well that may just be business prudence. In a world where Trump might wake up, see a picture of Trudeau kissing Katie Perry, and decide to make your cars 300% more expensive because fuck everyone, it’s probably wiser to just not take that risk…
They can also control the US by just denying them vehicles. Hondas are incredibly popular vehicles, and removing them and their parts from the market would piss a LOT of people off.
Capitalism is where the money is the important part and has the power yet whenever these corporations find themselves in a position where the system could actually function in some vaguely beneficial way for society they still fall all over themselves to suck off whatever shitstain is causing problems.
It all comes back to shareholder primacy. Dodge v Ford decided that corporations must act first and foremost in the interest of shareholders. And the more modern Friedman doctrine decrees that they should cater to those interests not only primarily, but exclusively, even at the expense of all others.
Honda could try a bargaining tactic like that. And their shareholders could sue the shit out of them. And the shareholders would win. Because our model of corporate governance is fucked.
Always has been.
Nissan it is then.
Nissans are unfortunately no longer considered reliable, due to often short-lived CVTs
The Pathfinder, Frontier and the Armada have standard ZF automatic trans, no CVTs.
I’ve always loved Honda personally, nissan is still an option especially now with them keeping the V6 and 9speed auto on those 3 models.
Last I checked, they did have MT options on some vehicles still.
