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I just don't see the "massive drop in quality" that others point to. It seems so strange to state that long term reliability dropped with these new designs when they haven't been out long enough to really determine that. And look at the 2016 from the last gen Tacoma. Those were rife with issues...

lol.....rear disc brakes are just too advanced for them?

Positive side? You have 6 more hours of driving experience to report on.

Yep. An unfriendly negotiation and over what? I don't agree with the thought that illegal immigration is some sort of massive problem. It's more fear mongering than anything. Can things be improved? Sure, definitely, but I do not agree that we need to start financial wars with close allies over...

Pretty much the only time I pull out the ramps. Use to do it without them but just easier so much easier with the extra headroom.

Same here. Been doing it myself for so long, I wouldn't know how to deal with a shop. But the wife takes her car to the shop. She says my schedule is much harder to get on than the dealers. And they charge her less.😉

What I'm scared we will see happen: Anything imported will go up 25%. And everything not imported will go up 24% because they can, and they will still be cheaper. It'll be the same thing as COVID times. Businesses raised prices because everyone else was. I know my company did and we had no...

In light of the tariff war, Ram fired the first shot in the "incentive" war. Your shot Ford, what you got in response? (As GM sits back eating popcorn.)

And now when I see any commenter whining how 0W20 will kill an engine, I have something to refer them to. Now go find somebody who put a million miles on a turbo so we can shut them up as well. Preferably a 2023/24 Tundra that was not part of the recall to end that argument as well.

This is your vocation. Reporting on the automotive world of sales and how anything affects it. Pointing out the negative/positive results is also factual. You aren't being political. The tendency to blame any "negative" thing on a certain party or group of people is political.

lol...yep, I'm definitely guilty of it as well. Never afraid to learn.

What!? How can that be? Some of these guys on the user forums have driven hundreds of miles on these trucks, so how can they be wrong? And they actually can "feel" how much more power and smoothness thicker oil provides......:rolleyes:

Agreed. They all seem to have something, but maybe the one you have will not be affected at all. Or the one you buy could be the only one that blows up for something unrelated. There are lots of long-term issues out there, but how common are they really? That's why right now, I don't think I'd...

It is true how they respond does matter. But it also seems they only respond in that way when the NHTSA forces them to. There are other long-term issues with some designs but since they are not "safety" related, they don't step up and fix them. Issues with Ram and GM valve trains and Ford...

I remember some movie or book using "Lower than a pregnant rattlesnake's belly in a wagon wheel rut". I remember thinking, that's pretty damn low....

From USA Today: "According to a notice first reported to NHTSA on Friday, the recall covers 272,817 Bronco and Maverick vehicles that contain 12-volt batteries manufactured by Chinese company Camel Battery." Another report said that only 1% of the recalled vehicles have the bad batteries but...

Good god that man has some windshield time.

Yes! I love it. What a friggin' moron. Why do people have to be like that? Is it really worth all that to them?

Sure, some do but most don't. The point is that there is more opportunity for things to go wrong. And that's what many complain about with newer vehicles. Consider that PHEV vehicles generally have the worst reliability because they have all that EVs have, as well as all that ICE vehicles have...

Honda Passport has 1300 and Mazda CX 70 has 1200. So yeah 800 is relatively low.