Which car do you favour?

[petro]

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I like that blue so much I got the 2019 Tundra version.
With the naturally aspirated 5.7, not the new generation of a twin turbo lawnmower engine and a massive recall.

Hauls tools during the week, and a camper or boat on the weekends. Toyota's most reliable V8. Too bad they bailed on it.
Gonna cost them in the long run as the big three are now keeping the big engines.

 

[hjmick]

I like that blue so much I got the 2019 Tundra version.
With the naturally aspirated 5.7, not the new generation of a twin turbo lawnmower and a massive recall.
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Hauls tools during the week, and a camper or boat on the weekends. Toyota's most reliable V8. Too bad they bailed on it.
Gonna cost them on the long run as the big three are now keeping the big engines.

I learned to drive in a '67 Landcruiser with three on the tree. Loved that beast.

I saw the FJ Cruiser concept at a car show in Los Angeles in 2005, I thought to myself, "Yeah, okay..."

I bought a 2007 in 2006, first model year. I'm still driving it, 191,000 miles and not one problem.

And I'd still take one of those old '60s/'70s FJ models any day.

 

[petro]

What I prefer is 1970s cars and trucks. Ford, chevy pickup trucks and the cars were better than todays. Big corp. is trying to
make their vehicles tough for the regular joe to work on so we will be dependent on them for repairs.

Our friend got burned by a 2014 Ford Explorer that has an internal timing chain driven water pump. Half of the engine on passenger side needs disassembly. Cost her damn near 5 grand for what usually costs a few hundred bucks or less if DIY.
Dumbest design ever as entire timing assembly is then shot also, and Ford was forced in later models after a major lawsuit to return to a damn normal setup where you can actually access it and it runs off the serpentine belt like a normal car.

Guy at work has the new Grand Cherokee and has to remove the entire front bumper to change a stupid bulb. Molded in light assembly's that cost $1,500 bucks if damaged.
Now you can't even replace a bumper anymore as they have several sensors for park assist or blind spot monitors, each needing calibration if replaced. The typical cost of a single blind spot sensor can run about a thousand bucks.
Those folks with that fancy air shock system are in for a rude financial awakening if those components fail.

The useless tech is out of control and I am thankful my truck still has physical controls over the idiocy of running everything through the dash head unit.
I can still do a lot of maintenance, like shocks, brakes, plugs, fluids, some sensors, but it gets more difficult as many times a special tool is required. Even replaced the cheap plastic actuator gears in my old Jeep that kept breaking in the climate control blend doors, each of those visits to a dealer would have been a grand for a twenty dollar piece of cheap plastic. That repair sucked ass and required removal of most of the dash.
Thank you YouTube.

With the amount of electronic and software recalls hitting literally every brand including luxury vehicles, anyone is insane to ever trust a self driving system.

I shut off every nanny feature in my truck.
I will drive my overpriced vehicle myself, thank you.

If there is a Hell, car engineers can spend Eternity fixing the stupid crap they designed.
Sorry, rant over.

 

[odanny]

I saw this at the Munich airport in June and have no idea what it is, but it looks awesome. Anyone know what this might be?