Posted on 04/22/2024 11:12:50 AM PDT by Red Badger
I’ve always liked the tacomas, until the last 5-10 years.
The old diesel rabbits were popular with people who drove to Florida, couldn’t beat the mileage.
Not happening Germany is on the skids without cheap Russian energy supplies.
There was a time where they were #1 hands down in not just building fast cars, but really reliable and qualitative good cars.
Today they build junk, like a Tesla.
Over engineered and complicated. Designed obsolescence, which is in reality environmentally horrible!!! All proprietary parts and not maintenance friendly. Their cars are far-far to sensitive for practical real world use where people do run into curbs, drive through water, bump something when parking, drive someplace and tank up less than 100 octane perfect fuel, do drive on gravel roads, hit a speed bump far to fast...
The German car today is simply to technically complicated, not designed with maintenance in mind, and uses parts that won’t be available in a few years, are extremely expensive, and the car is intolerant to the sort of abuse which a normal car should be able to handle.
In the 70s and 80s the Germans boasted cars that could get a 1,000,000 miles on them, no $hit. They gave away badges for the grill for how many miles that machine has on its back: https://www.reddit.com/r/mercedes_benz/comments/sey2lg/does_anyone_have_such_a_badge_200000km_for_sale/#lightbox. I think it was the Mercedes diesel car that was sort of famous for making a 1,000,000 miles and having many cars achieve that.
Today you can forget all that. Junk for people that want to waste their money in order to impress another idiot. A car for Arabs, Turks, or those diverse people in the US for whom it is really important to tell the world they are successful because they bought a really expensive car that is unreliable.
Yep, betting that plant is not long term...
UAW wins big at Volkswagen in Tennessee.
And it did so much good for Detroit auto prices huh Moe.
They changed the transmission in the Tacoma in 2016. They had problems with them that and the next year.
I think they figured it out by 2018. A buddy has one and has had no issues.
They changed the transmission in the Tacoma in 2016. They had problems with them that and the next year.
I think they figured it out by 2018. A buddy has one and has had no issues.
The last UAW built vehicle I bought was a 1990 Oldsmobile.Now I’ll have to be careful of VWs.
Bingo, the Italians are doing the same thing to Jeep stating that they cannot afford to build them in the USA after they went Unionized. All 4000 will be unemployed and Jeep may actually die as the Italians build other vehicles in newer plants and facilities at lower costs elsewhere. The US market for cars is in serious trouble anyway.
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