Toyota Tundra: First Impression
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From: Ed White on 1 Mar 2007 13:36 On Mar 1, 11:19 am, "Jeff" <n...(a)googlemail.com> wrote: > The only question I have is why you would have to pay for a new truck if he > got his hands on your Frontier. After a year with the Frontier, I am unimpressed with it "toughness." It is a decent ride around truck, but I'd hate to subject it to anything rough. The frame is pathetic looking compared even to a Ranger. The engine is a great race car engine, but a lousy truck engine. The truck rides nicely, but by Father's 8 year old Ranger will haul a larger load without bottoming out the springs. The Nissan 4WD system works well, but it worried the heck out of me yesterday when it refused to shift back to 2WD (I had driven throught a rather challenging mud hole). > I believe in natural consequences. If a child runs into a wall, he soon > learns that it hurts and stops running into the wall. How about one that breaksa bone when he runs into the walll...do you just let them tough it out? > The natural consequence of being rough with a Vue is that he pays for the > repairs, not you. He will learn not to be rough with vehicles or learn to > get a 2nd job. I have one goal for my Son - get him out of high school and into college. I put him to work on my farm, but anything that interferes with school is forbidden. My son has to get to school. I have three choices - take him and pick him up daily, pay someone to do it, or let him drive. The last option was the cheapest. If I said he had to pay for the repairs to the Vue, he wouldn't be able to, so I'd end up carrying him to school and paying for the Vue. He actually paid for the Firebird out of his own savings - it was so horrible he wiped his savings out. Getting the Mustang has worked out really well. It was dirt cheap, and has been bullet proof. The amount I was spending on gas has even gone down. It is an unbelieveable bargin. Ed
From: larry moe 'n curly on 1 Mar 2007 14:26 C. E. White wrote: > I have my own toughness test - my 17 year old son. So far only two > vehicles have passed - 1999 Ford Ranger and a 2006 Ford Mustang. > Failed vehicles - 2003 Saturn Vue, 1997 Pontiac Firebird, 1992 F150 - > although both the Firebird and F150 had many miles at the time they > failed the test. Exactly what does your son do to vehicles?
From: larry moe 'n curly on 1 Mar 2007 14:35 Evil top poster Mike Hunter wrote: > The Tundra is a second rate truck compared to what GM, Ford and > Dodge have to offer and for less money. If the trucks from GM, Ford, and Dodge are superior, why can't be sold for higher prices than the Tundra?
From: Ed White on 1 Mar 2007 14:49 On Mar 1, 2:35 pm, "larry moe 'n curly" <larrymoencu...(a)my-deja.com> wrote: > Evil top poster Mike Hunter wrote: > > > The Tundra is a second rate truck compared to what GM, Ford and > > Dodge have to offer and for less money. > > If the trucks from GM, Ford, and Dodge are superior, why can't be sold > for higher prices than the Tundra? That is a very good question. I spent a lot of time shopping for a new truck last year. I didn't want a full size truck. I wanted someting a little smaller, but bigger than a Ranger. However, I did priced larger trucks. I was shocked when I found I could get an F250 for less than a Tundra. It was ridiculous. I don't understand how Toyota could sell one at all. A fourth rate truck for a first rate price. It was silly. I didn't want the F250, and couldn't stomach the Toyota dealers. I tried to negotiate a price for a Tacoma, but the Toyota dealers were so full of s$%t that I ended up in a Frontier. Tacomas are over priced to begin with, and the local dealers try to add ridiculous doc fees. Yet despite screwing their Customers they are able to sell the trucks. It make me think Toyota buyers are brain dead. If you go merely by specifications, the Tacoma is inferior to the Frontier. If you drive one, it is even more inferior. Yet Toyota charges thousand more. Go figure. Do Toyota buyers even consider anything else? Ed
From: Mike Hunter on 1 Mar 2007 15:33
Worried about what? In 2006 Ford sold 34% of the truck market and GM 30%. Toyota was a distant fourth at a measly 5% mike "Dante" <dante(a)xmission.com> wrote in message news:es71tb$hf9$1(a)news.xmission.com... > C. E. White wrote: >> "Mike Hunter" <mikehunt2(a)mailcity.com> wrote in message >> news:eo6dnWCypbA6cnvYnZ2dnUVZ_r6vnZ2d(a)ptd.net... >>> Ride in an older model Toyota or Dodge truck, listen to the squeaks and >>> rattles, it soon become apparent that the 'toughness' IS important in a >>> truck >>> >>> mike >> >> I have my own toughness test - my 17 year old son. So far only two >> vehicles have passed - 1999 Ford Ranger and a 2006 Ford Mustang. Failed >> vehicles - 2003 Saturn Vue, 1997 Pontiac Firebird, 1992 F150 - although >> both the Firebird and F150 had many miles at the time they failed the >> test. The F150 failure only cost a few hundred dollars. The Firebird's >> was terminal. The Vue's failure was partially covered by warranty, but >> hideously expensive - after it was mobile again I got rid of it. I won't >> let him touch my Frontier - I can't afford another new truck this year >> and I don't think the Frontier would last long with him driving. >> Apparently the Mustang is bullet proof. He has put more miles on it than >> all the other vehicle combined and the only "failure" was a destroyed >> rear tire. I can't really blame that on Ford. Then again, as far as I >> know he hasn't taken the Mustang off road.... >> >> I wonder if I can get Toyota to lend me a Tundra for him to test. Might >> make for an interesting experiment. >> >> Ed > Since when are there so many Ford and GM lovers reading a Toyota group? > Seems to me that these Ford and GM advocates are getting awfully nervous > lately. It's actually kind of funny. > > Dante |