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Toyota makes REAL tough trucks!!!

mpolansmpolans Member Posts: 1,752 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited February 2004 in General Discussion
Check THIS out. Wonder how Chevy, Ford and Dodge would do?

http://thw.gameparty.net/other/imp/topgear1.WMV
http://thw.gameparty.net/other/imp/topgear2.WMV
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  • paboogerpabooger Member Posts: 13,953
    edited November -1
    I know!!! I drive one every day!!

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  • trusta45trusta45 Member Posts: 516 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I know a guy who had an older model Toyota 4 wheel drive that I went mud and trail riding with one weekend and he was making it through water,mud and up hills that Chevy's and Fords couldnt cut.He even helped pull a Chevy out of a water/mud hole it bogged in.I know another guy who has a newer Toyota that I saw him pull out a brand new Dodge 4X4 on the beach that got stuck.Theres 3 things you cant mess with the Japanese for:
    1.Reliable,Efficient and Tough Cars and Trucks
    2.Fast Motorcycles
    3.Electronics
    Sorry America "its sad but true".
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  • select-fireselect-fire Member Posts: 69,446 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I got nothing on the link but looks like a bunch of Japanese letters.
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  • trusta45trusta45 Member Posts: 516 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Those 2 video's are no doubt a testament though.
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  • ryan_marineryan_marine Member Posts: 635 ✭
    edited November -1
    And you all wonder why I drive one.

    Ray

    More Powder, More Lead, More Dead
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  • gunpaqgunpaq Member Posts: 4,607 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Seriously looked at one, the Tundra, before buying my F-150. I liked everything about it except that I had to squeeze in and out and I was uncomfortable as all get out sitting in it. Even the Ford is made too small these days as I hit my knees getting in and out of it, and as for the Chevy it is worse for me. I wished they would stop feminizing trucks as there are too many visor mirrors, cup holders , power this and power that, CD players, bells and whistles that I do not need to put up with........................I liked it when a radio was an option.

    Pack slow, fall stable, pull high, hit dead center.

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  • Big Sky RedneckBig Sky Redneck Member Posts: 19,752 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Gunpaq, trucks are no longer made for manly men, they are yuppie wagons now[V]

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  • rldowns3rldowns3 Member Posts: 6,096
    edited November -1
    Whatever happened to pickup trucks with the basic layout dashboards (if they even had one) with just a speed-o-meter, mabye a tach, oil pressure, voltage and fuel gauge and an odometer, vinyl seats, you know the kind that rip off about 8 layers of skin off your * when you try to slide out, good ole basic, utilitarian steering wheel with a simple horn button in the middle, two manual adjust mirrors hung on the doors and a stick shift/hi-lo axle shifter with the good ole jet black hard rubber shifter knob and not those genuine imitation wood plastic shifter knobs.

    Instead now we got carpeted trucks with leather seats, cushy comfort-grip steering wheels with airbags (no not the wife/girlfriend kind), lazy yuppie push button 4 wheel drive, electric windows, carpeted dashboards, captians chairs and a fricken navigation system in some of them.

    Who needs all that crap anyway? I wish Ford or Chevy would put out a good ole basic MANS model truck again. Just the basics. Radio with 2 speakers, bench seat, heat and/or AC and REAL LOCKING FRONT HUBS and that's it. You could throw out 75% of the crap they put on trucks now, drop the price by about 35% and I'd consider buying one.

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  • Horse Plains DrifterHorse Plains Drifter Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 39,875 ***** Forums Admin
    edited November -1
    rldowns3, you read my mind. I have thought for years that I should try to get investors together and start making '70s vintage Chev. and Ford knock-offs. Just plain tough-as-nails genuine pickup trucks. I am convinced they would sell good.

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  • FlatheadFlathead Member Posts: 318 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Yeah and I'll bet you will buy an electric fishing lure from this guy too. Nothing but a trumped up infomercial. We all know how they work.[;)] Things are not always as they seem.
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  • DIRTYRATDIRTYRAT Member Posts: 2,167 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'm driving my 4th one now!

    "I AM MY OWN WORST ENEMY"
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  • Chaser11Chaser11 Member Posts: 251 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by pabooger
    I know!!! I drive one every day!!

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    LIFES MOSTLY SCARS AND SOUVENIR'S - Max Stalling


    To Ride, shoot straight,and speak the truth
    This was the Ancient law of Youth
    Old times are past, old times are done:
    But the Law runs true, O little son!
    [:D][:D][:D][:D][:D] PA, I'm an old chevy man run a 68 stepside for 10 yrs up untill Dec. 86 I bought my first Toyota 87 extra cab 4 X 4 They say once you buy one you never go back ,,[:D],,I had that tk 15 1/2 yrs and never had it in the shop for a tune up. the battery lasted 9 yrs the belts the same the hoses i changed at about 10 yrs and was afraid to put the new ones on , the old ones still looked like new. in the 15 1/2 yrs I put a water pump on, the hoses and belts, frt brakes, (still had the back original when I traded) and i had to replace a sending unit in the gas tank for the gauge.And it didn't use oil when i traded it either. I traded fore a used 97 Tacoma extra cab with 107,000 mi on it ( almost broke in for a Toyota) one thing i liked the suspension on the old tk better(had the torsion bars vs the strut coil over shock crap. they have to soften 'em up for the yuppies,But the twin OHC 4cyl vs the old 22RE is awesome, runs like a V6 and get about the same gas mailage as the old inline 22RE,[V] still miss the old suspension Never got the other one stuck ,got this one stuck the first winter. She crawled out on her own ,but I blame it one the 31X10.50 tires..too wide for the snow. Love 'em or Hate 'em if ya want to be Honest ya can't knock 'em[:D] [:D] [:D] [:D] [:D] [:D] [:D] [:D] [;)]








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  • FrogdogFrogdog Member Posts: 2,923 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I had an '86 Toyota 4X4 that I bought used in high school and drove for ten years with 0 mechanical problems. Seemed like that truck could go anywhere and do anything. Bed was probably more bondo than metal by the end, but I reckon I'd have kept it forever if somebody hadn't totalled it while it sat in my driveway.
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  • jjmitchell60jjmitchell60 Member Posts: 3,887
    edited November -1
    I have a 2003 Toyota Tundra TRD 2WD Stepside. Everything is great except Toyota's service and warrenties! Mine has paint that is slipping under the clear coat and they will not fix it! All 2004 Toyotas are painted with water based paint. All 2003 Tundras are as well. The Tundra was the first to use the water based paint. I will never buy nother Toyota due to this matter. I will stick with GM products. My 92 GMC 4x4 is a much better truck as to paint than my 2003 Tundra! Beware with the new Toyotas and their paint.

    "we are but men... no more, no less..."
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  • mpolansmpolans Member Posts: 1,752 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Actually, "Top Gear" is a well known british TV program.

    quote:Originally posted by Flathead
    Yeah and I'll bet you will buy an electric fishing lure from this guy too. Nothing but a trumped up infomercial. We all know how they work.[;)] Things are not always as they seem.
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  • bartobarto Member Posts: 4,734 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Anybody that plays in the mud on a regular basis & doesn't like push-button 4-w-d obviously doesn't have the option OR they take a drone along to get out & put the hubs in.
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  • jltrentjltrent Member Posts: 9,308 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I had one just like in the video. It was tough alright, road like a log wagon, would fish tail around every curve because the springs were so stiff, did't have enough room in it to woop a cat, the back fenders rusted out immediately, had to have the head gasket replace because it started leaking anti-freeze around the seal,(found out it had a recall for the seal when I took it in), it was like driving a bucking mule. Other than the above it was alright.
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  • gunnut505gunnut505 Member Posts: 10,290 ✭
    edited November -1
    Afghanistan has undoubtedly got this planet's worst "roads", and 'yota hi luxes are all that last. Our own ODA's in 'Ghanistan are in Tacomas, kickin' butt & taking names!
    If I ever find $30,000 lying around, I'm gonna get one!

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  • AlpineAlpine Member Posts: 15,093 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I still own a "Real Truck" as some have described. '72 Chev 4 WD with manual hubs, an AM radio and no AC.

    Last year I bought a new Chev 4 WD. It has the push button 4 WD, air bags, automatic headlights, diesel, with a computer that tracks everything, AM/FM CD (it also plays cds with MP3s) tape, AC.

    You know which one I prefer?

    The new one! You guys are nuts! The ride, the comfort, the ease with wich you travel, the MPG, the HP, the automatic headlamps.

    Of course I am old, and that may account for the preferances.

    You guys are nuts!



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  • BlackieBoogerBlackieBooger Member Posts: 2,175 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have had it with American made vehicles. From now on I'm buying Jaanese vehicles. I can't afford fixing the American made vehicles anymore. Sad but true.

    "Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, not liberty to purchase power."
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  • mohawk600mohawk600 Member Posts: 5,513 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I almost hate to admit it........ALMOST. I have owned two American vehicles out of nine. One of those was given to me for free.

    The japs produce better vehicles than we do.
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