Toyota used to build exceptionally durable engines, but now their performance and reputation are slipping. Why? From Eric Peters at ericpetersautos.com:
There was a time when if you bought a Toyota – including a used one – you could confidently expect not to have to replace the engine.
Ever.
It would usually outlast the car.
Corollas and Camrys became two of the best-selling cars – ever – largely on account of their completely deserved reputation for reliability and durability. Neither car was especially exciting. But they (and other Toyota models such as the 4Runner and Tacoma and Tundra) were good – and that matters more in the long run than exciting. Ask any man about that.
Or woman, for that matter.
Well, that’s changed, apparently.
Toyota has announced it will replace the engines in about 100,000 Tundra pickups and 3,500 Lexus-branded SUVs that use the same 3.4 liter turbocharged V6 engine. All of them made within that past two years.
The idiot press – which isn’t so much stupid as it is ignorant (and arrogant) – “reports” that the affected engines “lose power while driving.”
Where to start?
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Lose power in the left lane while doing 80mph?
Ain’t nobody got time for that.
Family had several Datsun 240/280 Z but I think they became Nissan.
Pappy had a 1965 Thunderbird that was destroyed in a fire and I don’t think he ever really got over it.
The 1970s Capri when it was hard to get was a fun one.
The fastest ever was a puke green Chevy Nova, with that knock you back in your seat rush!
Such beautiful mobiles in the Vintage Legacy America.
FEW motors will have a Trabant for all of us in the pod collective, mule not included.
Regarding the Rust Belt region of AINO/FUSA, it was all dependent on Detroit so no wonder it is a husk now.
Breaking from Kyuss:
Demon Cleaner