Toyota: I Love What You do For Me

[86Royale]

This is way off topic, but I'm just so damn thrilled with my pickup, I had to share.

 

Today I dragged my wife's 94 Ford Escort from Minneapolis to my place just south of Canada with my 92 Toyota pickup. The weight of the car and dolly was just over 3000#. I held 65 mph in 5th gear (could've gone faster, but I didn't want to risk losing the whole ball of wax at 75), only having to downshift for the construction zones and was able to pull down 19mpg on the first tank, and 19+mpg with the air conditioning on (haven't figured it out yet) on the second tank. Not bad for a 16 year old pickup with 171,000 miles on it. Now, if Toyota just made a truck I wanted, I might consider buying a new one....on second thought, nah!

[Guest tx2sturgis]

And now...back to your regularly scheduled programming.

 

[Albino Rhino]

Now, if Toyota just made a truck I wanted, I might consider buying a new one....on second thought, nah!

The newer Toyotas are not what they used to be. My bother has a 2000 Tundra with ~200,000 miles on it and a 2006 Tundra with ~47,000 miles on it. He is emphatic that the 2000 T with all that mileage is a better truck than the 2006.

 

Three years ago I decided to move up from my 1995 Toyota T100 to a full-size truck and set out to buy a Tundra. After a week of empty promises of locating a Tundra that met my requirements, I started looking at Ford trucks. After looking and test driving both the Tundra and Ford F150 I bought the Ford. We'll see how reliable it is over the years.

 

Toyota; it isn't what it used to be.

[Guest weirdbeard]

I had been planing on buying an older one until I saw this about the recall. I can't deal with a truck breaking in half!

http://www.topix.com/forum/autos/T150C2R6RLPQP2HD2

[86Royale]

I take a lot more issue with the states that use salt than I do the trucks. As a matter of fact that's the whole reason I brought this Escort back. My wife has to drive over to MN for her new job, and I flat told her that my truck would not be driven in the salt and that we needed to find a sacrificial lamb for that drive. I've lived in ND for 4 years now, and it's a rule in my house, my 92 doesn't get driven in MN from Oct-Mar. The only salt that truck has seen in 16 years is 1 detroit winter, where it got washed twice a week. It was lucky to come out with minimal underbody rust and no cancer. The body still looks just as good as the day I bought it in 2001.

[bongobobny]

The real question being, why in the world would you want to bring an Escort home???