Tinkerer's Adventure - New Toyotas

Fightnfire

Fightnfire

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I've shared a few of his videos here this is his most recent. He's a Toyota fan and builds over landing and technical off-road vehicles. I've seen quite a few posts on here about guys looking for cheap trucks, this fits. He's a very well respected mechanical engineer, and has a way of making difficult engineering topics easy to consume for the average person.

He's been looking for a new vehicle for quite a while and was waiting for all of the new Toyota stuff to come out here's what he chose and why:

 
Fightnfire said:
I've shared a few of his videos here this is his most recent. He's a Toyota fan and builds over landing and technical off-road vehicles. I've seen quite a few posts on here about guys looking for cheap trucks, this fits. He's a very well respected mechanical engineer, and has a way of making difficult engineering topics easy to consume for the average person.

He's been looking for a new vehicle for quite a while and was waiting for all of the new Toyota stuff to come out here's what he chose and why:

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I got a chance, finally (it has been a week), to watch this video. BTW, I didn't shake this guy's hand, but he was at an event I was at in California.


I made it through most of the video until I got bored. He tears down every new truck to justify his purchase decision. I don't think he is wrong with his purchase though. If I was going to do that kind of off-road driving, I'd go used for sure. No sense beating up a new truck like that and doing all the mods he plans. While he justifies his decision pretty well, I really think it comes down to not damaging a new truck vs beating the crap out of a used truck.

From a YouTube business standpoint, I hope it works. I know others like Mark at Tundradude34 have tried similar things to buy used and it has not worked in terms of views. People want to see new stuff and so does the SEO gods who control the YT algorithm UNLESS you are a focused off-road channel. Then it can work to some degree.
 
testerdahl said:
I got a chance, finally (it has been a week), to watch this video. BTW, I didn't shake this guy's hand, but he was at an event I was at in California.


I made it through most of the video until I got bored. He tears down every new truck to justify his purchase decision. I don't think he is wrong with his purchase though. If I was going to do that kind of off-road driving, I'd go used for sure. No sense beating up a new truck like that and doing all the mods he plans. While he justifies his decision pretty well, I really think it comes down to not damaging a new truck vs beating the crap out of a used truck.

From a YouTube business standpoint, I hope it works. I know others like Mark at Tundradude34 have tried similar things to buy used and it has not worked in terms of views. People want to see new stuff and so does the SEO gods who control the YT algorithm UNLESS you are a focused off-road channel. Then it can work to some degree.
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He only puts out videos every few months. I don't think he's trying to make a living off of YouTube at all. Also, I think the point he's trying to make is from an engineering standpoint and showing cost cutting measures in new Toyota vehicles. His other vehicles have also been used. I beleive his last build was an FJ cruiser.

The majority of people don't off road or even overland their trucks. Jeep's and Toyotas were always built to be able to do that though... they've both changed a lot however and the cost cutting is evident especially in the Toyota side.
 
The other aspect is that he is a YTuber and costs matter. That Tundra will be infinitely cheaper. Plus, end use really matters. I think if he was picking his daily driver, he wouldn't make the same choice. If I was going to build another Jeep for off-roading, it surely wouldn't be a recent model. Just too damn expensive.
 
Fightnfire said:
I've shared a few of his videos here this is his most recent. He's a Toyota fan and builds over landing and technical off-road vehicles. I've seen quite a few posts on here about guys looking for cheap trucks, this fits. He's a very well respected mechanical engineer, and has a way of making difficult engineering topics easy to consume for the average person.

He's been looking for a new vehicle for quite a while and was waiting for all of the new Toyota stuff to come out here's what he chose and why:

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Toyota has not made a truck I am interested in since about 1991 for the small trucks and 2017 for the full size trucks.
 
It works well for him I think you've misunderstood what his site is. He does a video every couple of months not on his build and he's not trying to attract people in based off of the vehicle he's driving or what he's doing with him. He's an engineer that breaks down vehicles from an engineering standpoint.

Overlanding and off-roading types flock to his site to get a true breakdown on suspension geometry and component architecture etc. Understanding lifts, suspension, wheel travel etc.

This video in particular I thought did a good job showing the changes to the new generation Toyotas and why they don't appear to be built nearly as a durable as previous generations. He's a Toyota guy so I don't actually think it's a knock on Toyota It would probably be true across the most of the manufacturers.
 
Fightnfire said:
It works well for him I think you've misunderstood what his site is. He does a video every couple of months not on his build and he's not trying to attract people in based off of the vehicle he's driving or what he's doing with him. He's an engineer that breaks down vehicles from an engineering standpoint.

Overlanding and off-roading types flock to his site to get a true breakdown on suspension geometry and component architecture etc. Understanding lifts, suspension, wheel travel etc.

This video in particular I thought did a good job showing the changes to the new generation Toyotas and why they don't appear to be built nearly as a durable as previous generations. He's a Toyota guy so I don't actually think it's a knock on Toyota It would probably be true across the most of the manufacturers.
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I think we get it. He looks at the details not just the "looks" like other sites like TRDJon. Great for a Toyota enthusiast.
 
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