Fuck Akio and Toyota
Reminder: Toyota is also the third biggest anti climate lobbyist in the world
Also largest supplier of mobile weapons platform aka Hilux pickup truck.
a great unit(similar) CNC generals.
The CEO of Toyota is named Toyoda?
Yeah it’s a family like Ford
Excuse me, did you perhaps mean Fort?
Oh, Mr Night?
And sadly, Toyota about the only vehicle that I can comfortably sit in without my back being torn up.
You ever sat in a Volvo? Best seats ever.
Honestly, no, I have not. I’ll have to check it out.
Don’t knock preowned luxury cars either. 5+ year old used sedans with generally low mileage and usually comfort features (aka, old people who don’t drive a lot), around the price of a low end new car these days
Just not their second row suvs that somehow don’t have arm rests.
Pretty big cost difference, unfortunately.
Wonder how much it costs to sell your soul to trump. Wonder what this bozo wants from trump
Fuck cars.
Hot take.
Especially at the temps an exhaust runs at. No one should fuck that.
Is that the Mr. Toyota Trump was talking about?
Yes Akio Toyota
I always confuse him with Akira Nissan
The name isn’t a coincidence. Akio Toyoda is a classic generational wealth nepo baby, the grandson of the founder of Toyota. Of course he’d be a Trumper.
The name of the company is read with a “ta” instead of “da” because of some Japanese numerology superstition reasons that I don’t fully understand.
Cracking up that the photo is in front of a Ford
Damn. Just finished up the payments on mine.
You purchased and paid it off before you knew, drive with a clear conscience until the wheels fall off and hope by then a better more ethical world exists.
I’m in the middle of my payment. I do hope, by the time I’m done, the world will have seen better leadership. But for now I will drive in shame nonetheless.
Fuck, same.
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Sounds like the NEXT AMERICAN BOYCOTT!!!
Ask Elon how that went!
DUMBASS! Can’t fix stupid!
Toyota lobbies hard against CAFE standards. They don’t wanna sell Priuses, they wanna sell TRUCKS!!!
Of course. They’re massively profitable.
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You can ignore half the emissions standards requirements
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People want them because they’re scared of driving a smaller vehicle while the other massive trucks on the road can crush them.
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They always talk about the ability to move things like furniture or equipment or things like thag despite only doing that twice a year, and rentals existing, including directly from places like Lowe’s and Home Depot.
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People are willing to pay a premium because they mistakenly think that bigger vehicles cost substantially more to make because bigger must mean a lot more material, despite most of a vehicle being empty space.
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This is absolutely true, but at the same time they killed the bulletproof 5.7 V8 and replaced it with a twin turbo v6 that just barely gives 200lbs extra towing and just craps all over itself every time ruining the Toyota worldwide name for reliability
I was that close to a GR Corolla too. Thanks for making this easier.
boomer asians/gen x asians lean conservative heavily often, moreso to do with thier socially conservative culture in thier own countries. evenmore if they are religious in anyway.
That’s a bummer. I love my old gen2 Priussy.
Honda it is then
Always has been.
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.
Nissan it is then.
Nissans are unfortunately no longer considered reliable, due to often short-lived CVTs
Last I checked, they did have MT options on some vehicles still.
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.
More Tundras sold = more money
