Well, this past weekend my girlfriend came down to the house and hit the back of my '79 F-150 4x4 with her Toyota Celica GTS while trying to park behind it. I lost two bumper stickers, my "Threeways" from Down Under (I told her she now has to take me there to replace it!) and one that just said "WhirlWind", she scratched my bumper on top and on the bottom-not sure how on top? And one other small scratch on the fuel tank. She caught it with her pass. side almost the whole length of hers. Now here's the kicker, she just got the estimate for repair, to the tune of $3,156! Needless to say, I don't think she will be takin' me to the Australian outback any time soon!!
Score-Ford 1, Toyota minus $3156, and she wonders why I don't ever let her drive my "big" truck?!

 

I have a Toyota and 2 Fords. The Toyota has them beat on gas mileage but Fords just run away on everything else.

 

[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON 28-Mar-01 AT 12:37 PM (EST)[/font][p] Toyota whats? Trucks - cars - SUVs???

 

My Toyota is a 4Runner.

 

Toyota doesn't make a truck. If they don't go past a supposed half ton, then they ain't serious.
It's a little known fact, but Toyota is actually a producer of scale models of vehicles. For instance, take the Toyota Tundra (AKA T-150 till Ford threatened to sue.) It is a 1:1 reproduction of an F-150 from the year before! The difference? While the Ford is made of good ol' American Steel and a little plastic, the Toy is made of cheap Chinese mystery metal, mostly plastic, throw in a little cardboard, and voila! A Tundra!
Toyota has the most brilliant people in the world. When the question of how they would design a truck came up, they had two choices:
1) Spend billions on research and development
2) Spend $20000 on a fairly base F-150 so those Japs could see what a truck was and then steal the design using the worthless Jappo materials they had laying around the shop to recreate it.
They chose the latter and once again showed the Japanese disregard for American patents!