Toyota Safety Strikes Again!

[Twitchin Kitten]

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Lexus is on the Consumer Reports Do Not Buy list.

Read here (and video) - http://www.insideline.com/lexus/gx-460/2...ports.html

I never buy anything with a short wheel base and high center of gravity. I had a Jeep Wrangler once and I hated it. Friggin' thing was 'goosey" on turns, wet roads and the goddamn exhaust that would kill you whether it was an open top or not was not worth keeping the damn thing. I had it for two weeks and got myself a proper vehicle.

edit: found some video and more:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pswOGMx8Tzo&feature=player_embedded#!

From Consumer Reports: http://blogs.consumerreports.org/cars/lexus/

[twisteroo]

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I would not shy away from a Toyota unless it was on fire or something.

[Vizth Hal]

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I say it's karma.

[Twilla]

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What karma? Toyota's has been one of the best and most consistently well built cars in the world up until recently. I still have confidence in their vehicles over the majority of crap produced in this country.

[Twitchin Kitten]

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Vizzy has personal reasons for that comment that only a few close friends know about is all.

I've only ever driven American cars and they're just as reliable for me as those who drive Japanese cars say they are for them. I did have one Italian car that I loved and a Datsun (yes before it was Nissan) that had it's engine fall right out while I was driving to work one day!

[twisteroo]

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I bet the engine in that datsun was still running when it fell out though.
I had a couple of those datsuns, the body would rot right off of them, but they would run forever.

[Rhubarb]

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Vizzy has personal reasons for that comment that only a few close friends know about is all.

I've only ever driven American cars and they're just as reliable for me as those who drive Japanese cars say they are for them. I did have one Italian car that I loved and a Datsun (yes before it was Nissan) that had it's engine fall right out while I was driving to work one day!

And the MG?


One uncle stopped buying American cars about 5 years ago, when his machanic put him onto Suburu.
The other has a retired US Jeep for Cave rescue work (no brakes, or floor pan) a 'trooper' (?) in the same state and Jap' crap, we call Jazz over here, you call them Fitts.

Anyone watch our UK Top-Gear? They tried to 'kill' a Toyota.

[Vizth Hal]

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can you find the episode?

[Rhubarb]

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can you find the episode?

It was a part of the show each week, not sure which series, No1 son may know.
Each week they did something different to see if it would survive. Left on the beach for the tide to swamp, set fire to it, dropped it from a 30 floor housing block, I think the Army did something to it.

At the end of the programme it was left to see if the AA could start it and move it. After the drop I think moved, but sideways.

[Twitchin Kitten]

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I had a Suburu for about two years. I loved that car! It had a Unibody construction, nearly a million miles on it and you couldn't kill it! I got rear-ended and the drivers seat broke through the floor. The body was slightly twisted from that and I still drove it another year. I stuck a chunk of metal under the seat bracing over the hole. That was the last car I owned before I bought my first brand new pickup truck.