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You have to remember that humans are the ones carrying out the process. The design can be fine, the tooling can be fine, the process can be fine. All it takes is for someone to not do their job... messing up periodic maintenance, someone not understanding the way that something is supposed to...

Definitely different than interiors... but the moving bits under the truck and under the hood aren't all that different. Torn CV joint boots, caked up mud or salt settling in the frame or in suspension joints or brake lines. Keeping the mechanical bits of the truck halfway clean does 2 things...

Shine in 5S means just keeping the area clean; not literally shining up the interior. I use mild cleaners and microfiber cloth. I avoid anything greasy or overly shiny. Quick wipe down every month or so is enough to keep stuff from building up.

UV and heat cycling is a killer when it comes to breakdown of rubber bits inside and outside of the car. Keeping your car clean means that you don't have junk building up that hides and creates potential problems. Get it dirty, but clean it after you are finished getting it dirty. My 18...

1) Follow the maintenance schedule in your owner's manual 2) Park it in a garage 3) Keep it clean 4) Listen to what the vehicle is telling you (note changes in sounds, on road manners, vibrations, etc).

If you open the rear doors on your drive, it will ping you to remind you to check the rear seat for children. On my GR Corolla, you can turn this reminder off in the vehicle gage cluster and that should carry over to the app. FWIW, this just happened less than a month ago. My friend's husband...

We're talking about trucks and utility trailers, too! Just like to note that I'm 100% utility trailer over truck bed in case anyone wants to know.

I pretty much landed in the same place. Without needing a 3rd row, the Sequoia seemed like too much car for everything else. An easily removable 3rd row would probably make the Sequoia more digestible* for those that could use the 3rd row on occasion but generally would prefer the cargo space...

Thomez commented about the cargo area and I responded about the rear cargo space with why it was the way it was. Engine durability, recalls, etc have nothing to do with that discussion. Neither he nor I breathed a word about the engine or what factors should be considered when buying a vehicle.

Cool strawman.

Not really. There literally isn’t anywhere for the 3rd row to go with SRA, BOF, hybrid, and a 3rd row. If you want those 4 things, there isn’t another vehicle that does it. Admittedly that is super niche, but I expect there are some that want to pull a boat or horse trailer and are swayed from...

Thank you for the review. Also have a 4Runner that is coming off lease (work thing) next spring and am very interested in the 1958 as a replacement.

It has some incline to it.

Speedometers regularly read low, but I'm not aware of odometers reading incorrectly. I would think that those would have to be pretty darn accurate from the factory (<1% deviation) due to the implications to warranties and the fact that odometer readings are strictly regulated. Are you sure...

Giving the markups attention does nothing but normalize markups. Stop talking about them and definitely don't pay them. The markups will go away. This isn't a limited edition vehicle. There's no prize for having one first. Toyota will make something like 30k of these each model year. The...

23-26mpg seems to be the actual gas mileage most people get in the 3.0 diesel 1500. https://www.fuelly.com/car/chevrolet/silverado_1500?engineconfig_id=148&bodytype_id=&submodel_id=

That is the Tacoma Pro wheel. It is something like a 20mm offset. It will likely poke a LOT on a Land Cruiser.

MKS Engineering is listed as a Modellista distributor for the US. MKS Engineering, Inc. [email protected] Their site is pretty light on details of what they sell, but you should be able to reach out to them to get a price quote. With the USD being so strong against the yen, the pricing probably...

Chances are the fuel tank is sized the way it is at least partially due to space constraints. There's only so much space when you are trying to put a fuel tank, SRA, frame, body, spare tire, prop shaft, and transfer case all in the same basic area. Trucks, with their longer wheelbase and...

My wife’s mini has a B46 (4 cyl version of BMW’s turbo 6). It can get great mileage as long as the conditions are steady state cruising as shown by the tank that managed 35mpg. But road trip isn’t the typical use case which is why is it pointless to talk about that anomaly. That 35mpg, while...

25 is an outlier. Most X7 are averaging 18-21 mpg per fuelly. Sounds like you appreciate the advantages of a crossover and an X5 would be more to your liking.

Less power, heavier, fewer gears. The GX has both shorter gearing on the low end and taller gearing on the top end via the extra 2 gears. Plus, we don't know exactly how the electric motor impacts the overall powerband. Throttle tuning is probably also different for the launch because that has...

Being a TX plate, unless you want to telegraph a love of Ted Cruz, I'd probably avoid CRUZ. :p

Being a little dramatic saying that the car isn't able to do normal car things. This is what raw acceleration numbers look like when you have relatively low power:weight ratio and big torque numbers. Torque is great for driveability and getting things moving... it's not great for 0-60...

It isn't 5 miles of range left until empty... it is "you should fill up the tank within 5 miles". If someone insists on running the tank to completely empty, which isn't a great idea, they would have more like 45-55 miles of range left. Those last ~2 gallons are considered reserve.

While not totally conclusive, since the ID of the bushing could be a different size, the bracket that holds the front sway bar bushing is common between the versions with SDM and without SDM. The rear swaybar is common between the models with and without SDM, I'm going to guess that the swaybar...

Pro doesn’t have swaybar disconnect. I’ve owned both versions of 5th gen 4Runner (pro and trail w/ KDSS)… the Fox suspension more than makes up for the shorter suspension travel.

631 is a really solid score. I think these are going to be excellent offroad with very slightly upsized tires.

Carwow is not a US outlet. It is likely not the T24. Probably a diesel. I assure you that they aren’t still tweaking the software. That’s a massive regulation item that is set before shipping mass production.