Angry Dad

Must run in the family. There's a few Tacoma owners quietly making the same complaint.

It's not what they say, it's what they don't say. No they won't say content or perecntage of source content. No they won't say source of investment dollar. No they won't say tax structure. But just like how we as voters make a choice, it's done on tags and what registers. Not content or results.

I remember this issue. What was happening was a few truckers were using the ramps and chains to chinch the trucks down. They spotted the truck on the hauler and used the rams on the ramps to pull it down. Just like a frame shop does when they straighten a wreck. Completely against all directives from the factory. Once they stopped, unlike the sludging, the problem went away. Was it any issue of frame strength? Absolutely not! So why again are FJs bending or Toyota V6s sludging? Not poor maintenance, poor design. Toyota Troll running for cover.

GM is dropping a program that it never started on a model they don't even sell yet? Wisdom and the internet. Yeah the Saturn program. May as well be over on GMI and put up with the bored ricecar salesmen and zit faced kids talking about the cars their uncle drives.

G6 is in Orion, if anything, Malibu would go there.

Far easier to just control the amount of combustable gasses introduced into the engine. Think about it, when you have EGR, you already have the inert gasses that effectively reduce the "displacement" of the combustion chamber.

It looks like the next gen Mini Van spent the night with a Pacifica. And the Pacifica left town and the offspring kept mom's name.

The "trick" behind modern engines is something very simple. To run high compression for when you need it and can use it is to be able to disable it for when you can't. Some of you may understand the concept, others won't but there is a difference between static compression ratios and a running compression ratio. And it's related to valve timing and overlap. Ever wonder how electric fuel pumps are inside a fuel tank and the fuel is "plumbed" through that electric motor and there is absolutely no danger of it igniting?

The one where I post as "Buickman", That seems to be totally enraptured with getting mentions in other media, Of course it's GM (?) Inside News

Call it a Scion BS and Edmunds will label it the next Mustang

Look what unions have done for us and them. They've given us a whole bunch of sensational stories about worker misconduct only problem is, lots of those stories are complete bull$h!, not all but a lot. And unions have given Japanese workers healthcare for free at given ages, a really substantial benefit pacakge, the abilty to regulate competition with trade barriers, in other words, the abilty of their nation to screw the $h! out of us. It's not just their auto workers, it all their unions. They are doing everything they can to defend their workers and it bears repeating, the best way to do it defend "your" (or in their case, the market they have stolen via trade barriers, currency manipulation and political payola) market is screw the $h! out your competition. I say let the UAW organize Toyota and Honda. Make they death trap plants they run safe and fair to the workers. Then see how fast they close them. And still the idiots in this nation will still but their stuff because Consumers Reports is so ...... factual? What a stupid nation this has become.

May as well say it since the "other" GM site shut down the subject. The subject is the "other site". Just how much credibilty has that site lost with so much sponsorship from Toyota dealers? Yeah there's a bunch of you that cross over and I'll say what I think, that other site seems to have more than it's fair share of Toyota trolls (aka, salesmen spotting rumors to sell their own stuff) Yeah they are fairly thin skinned about people taking shots at the "immaculate ones" and some people get pretty nasty but there are some that can't take it when stuff goes wrong like what is so common these days with the Tundra. Myabe they should just change their name to Inside Motor Trend? BTW, I won't hide it, I post under the same moniker over there too, what are they gonna do?

You know it has been "calculated" that Toyota could build 200k Tundras and give them away and still turn a profit. At this rate they may have to.

Ask somebody with a Toyota in the driveway about the UAW and they almost always make some sort of disparaging commmnet about the union. It's not a matter of not wanting to support GM or Ford, they don't want to support the UAW. Why? IMO, it's part of the image that has been created about unions. Doesn't matter that the vast majority of the stories about UAW work is bull$h!, it's the stories people want to believe, that their neighbors tell them. If the reverse was true, that the image of a owning a Toyota was that you supported slave labor overseas, it wouldn't matter how good a car they built.

Go away for a while and stop by and there's still a couple of the Toyota suckers here. And they still are desperately trying to post the nonsense about people "admiring" the incredibly hideous Tindra. My goodness, go back to the Toyota boards and try to explain the screwed up "new" Scions or Highlander. Or even the class action losses of the sludge defect AND the sexual harrasment suit. I just don't see GM people hanging out on one of the Toyota boards causing trouble but the Toyota nuts just love to go someplace and cause pain for themselves.

Lutz's words have been distorted. He does not say that GM will never build a minivan, it is clear that it will not be Lambda based. But holy schmoly, the people responding (especially some of the bozos on the Fastlane blog) have run off in all sorts of directions. The one guy that raves about the Tundra being so classy at the LA show, what a loser. IMO, minivans especially the current crop have gotten way out of control. They are ungodly expensive. The Lambdas are better in all respects as driving vehicles. There seems to be an opportunity to return minvans back to where they came from. None of theme are "mini" anymore. And dare any male to go up to any middle aged woman that is looking at any min van from any manufacturer and tell her that "she would look good in one of them". It's an insult, you may as well use the "c" word on them. And while Lutz can't say that, it's what he is saying. And yes sliding doors suck, there is a better way. Nobody has done the better way yet.

Sarcasm, bias or trolling, take your pick.

Look at the codes closer, LAP is 2009 and appears to replace the base L61, LNF is the 2.0 which is the DI turbo.

I can understand adaptable software for transmission feel and wear along with adapts for O2 sensors in concert with converter aging but to deliberately write software to control throttle is insane. If a customer was to be placed into a situation where a design feature is deliberately sabotaged by Toyota (which this sure as hell is) and placed in jeopardy is a lawyer's dream. Make it simple here, you pull out to pass and the car don't go and these idiots have openly admited they made it that way. Of course only the collective crackpots on a domestic auto board will see this and Toyota will send out their usual batch of bondo PR to make sure the majority will keep kissing their ass.

Yeah changing the name from T100 absolves it. AND, the next Tundra is so screwed up, Toyota is already pulling production from the line, before they even start the line.

This is almost too easy, the Tundra is so ugly and screwed up styling wise, Motor Trend was just stating the obvious. Toyota should be passing out barf bags where ever the Tundra travels. And yes the KoolAid drinkers are already moaning and groaning that GM shouldn't be so "patriotic". But of course it is hunky dory for Toyota to blatantly overstate the amount of jobs they "created" in the U S.

What this "study" misses: American politcians are subsidizing Japanese automakers profits with American workers taxes. The numbers are 9 months old.

Cripes, Toyota could put it's badge on a Yugo and you'd be here declaring it superior to a Ferrari.The current Camry is a dud in styling following on the heels of a confusing at best Avalon and yet to be released but already declared failure Tundra. And yeah I've got insight on this one, the Malibu kicks the Camry in every direction styling wise. Just like the Aura has already done. Don't get it, read the others on this board that haven't blindly followed the orders from the great Kool-Aid dispenser. Bottom line is GM has caught it's stride styling wise. Toyota still has it's shoelaces tied.

Could always hang a spare tire on it and then see how it does. Honestly, I know people that liked everything about the Rav 4 except that stupid tire on the back, they walked away and bought other stuff primarily for that one reason. Hope Toyota keeps up the good work. If needed, it is not an extreme tweak to extend the rear bumper on the Lambdas, you sure as heck cannot say that about anything with a tire on it's ass.