42' vs toyota
03-08-2013, 08:53 PM
#21
Registered
Join Date: Nov 2003
Posts: 701
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
My insurance would not deny a claim, that is hear say as far as I am concerned, we have never seen proof of this.
Plus with my tow max package, and 4.30 gears I am rated for 11,700... I'm ok.
On another note me and the locals are looking to make a trip to west Erie this summer. Do a little Cedar, Put in bay and the casino. We are thinking July are August, any big parties those months?
Plus with my tow max package, and 4.30 gears I am rated for 11,700... I'm ok.
On another note me and the locals are looking to make a trip to west Erie this summer. Do a little Cedar, Put in bay and the casino. We are thinking July are August, any big parties those months?
03-08-2013, 09:01 PM
#22
Registered
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Lake Michigan
Posts: 6,627
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Who are you trying to justify that too????????? Tundra is Jap Crap made in the U.S. and all the profits go back to the rising son...... My Father and two uncles are probably rolling over in their graves at the thought of them selling their scrap metal to us..... Sorry, I guess I am old enough to remember what they did to us .Hate the thought of them and China selling us anything....
Jim
Jim
I'm pulling....
I'm a tool maker and we don't repair Asian tooling, we make it over.
Gold Member
03-08-2013, 09:09 PM
#25
Registered
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Royal Oak, MI
Posts: 1,820
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Why is Gm and Chrysler handing out money to us for being citizens? Or are us citizens bailing them out?
Toyota USA is a USA corporation based in California, the are currently providing 37000 jobs right here in the USA.
The auto world is a global industry. Our good old American car companies have moved jobs an factories over seas or other places in north "America". Toyota, Hyundai, Mercedes, BMW, even Kia have all RECENTLY built plants HERE, and made jobs HERE.
Now you will counter that it is our fault for not buying American, and I will counter with how the American companies got greedy and forgot to add quality to there "name" therefore they lost customers to "jap" companies. BTW the jap and euro cars now cost more, and still outsell.
I am an American, I work for an American Petroleum company, but our auto industry is sad and they should be ashamed of themselves. Now we just have good ole boy's pointing the finger saying jap scrap and pearl harbor....Times have changed, maybe not on this site but inn reality they have changed.
My tundra 5.7 crew with the tow max package pulls my 38 just fine. Just put the first set of tires on it at 66,000 miles. That is the first and only thing it has needed. I did notice the brakes are half worn. My friend noticed the brakes are larger than his 2007 3500 Chevy diesel. He also noted that there was no rust anywhere, and the rear diff was larger than most 3/4 tons. I'm done buying junk cause it is "American" junk
My check list was even signed by a guy name John Williams at the factory in Texas....doesn't get more American than that
Toyota USA is a USA corporation based in California, the are currently providing 37000 jobs right here in the USA.
The auto world is a global industry. Our good old American car companies have moved jobs an factories over seas or other places in north "America". Toyota, Hyundai, Mercedes, BMW, even Kia have all RECENTLY built plants HERE, and made jobs HERE.
Now you will counter that it is our fault for not buying American, and I will counter with how the American companies got greedy and forgot to add quality to there "name" therefore they lost customers to "jap" companies. BTW the jap and euro cars now cost more, and still outsell.
I am an American, I work for an American Petroleum company, but our auto industry is sad and they should be ashamed of themselves. Now we just have good ole boy's pointing the finger saying jap scrap and pearl harbor....Times have changed, maybe not on this site but inn reality they have changed.
My tundra 5.7 crew with the tow max package pulls my 38 just fine. Just put the first set of tires on it at 66,000 miles. That is the first and only thing it has needed. I did notice the brakes are half worn. My friend noticed the brakes are larger than his 2007 3500 Chevy diesel. He also noted that there was no rust anywhere, and the rear diff was larger than most 3/4 tons. I'm done buying junk cause it is "American" junk
My check list was even signed by a guy name John Williams at the factory in Texas....doesn't get more American than that
You are posting utter lies to justify your foreign purchase. Why don't you look up GM, Ford and Chrysler employment. First of all I believe you've overstated toyota by 10k ish, but either way GM employs 90k Americans to sell a similar number of cars. Ford over 60k to sell less. Before anyone gets cute and blames this on efficiency, Toyota claims to employ over 300k global people vs GM's 250k or so. Foreign companies per car sold employ less than 50% of the people, which is then multiplied by the supplier effect, etc.
Keep justifying buying foreign crap because they sell you a load of crap while wrapping themselves in the American flag. Americans are fools and they know it and exploit it.
Please feel free to post how the Big 3 have moved production while others build here, the reality is laughably the opposite. The VAST majority of domestics are built in the US, a much smaller bit of transplants. All they have to do is put "made in USA" on the one or two models in a commercial and this is the crap "Americans" spew to justify their purchase.
The tundra is junk. A country that can't buy enough bland Camry's still buy 1/6th the tundra's they do F150's or GM's each.
Edit: adding a link, aka a clue http://blogs.cars.com/kickingtires/2...s-workers.html
Last edited by rlj676; 03-08-2013 at 09:16 PM.
03-08-2013, 09:11 PM
#26
Registered
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Royal Oak, MI
Posts: 1,820
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Nads? No, try ignorance. Kind of like not supporting the home team when you live in Detroit metro.......
03-08-2013, 09:16 PM
#27
Banned
03-08-2013, 09:20 PM
#28
Registered
Platinum MemberJoin Date: Feb 2012
Location: Naples, Maine/So NH
Posts: 75
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
this is a joke
When i was younger, i had a small mitsubishi 4x4 and a 26' 454 boat. There was a guy at a salt water ramp trying to pull his 18' boat out (at low tide) with his full size chevy 2 wheel drive. He could not get it out of the water due to slip and gearing. He laughed at me while I was backing down saying there was no way I could get mine out with my little truck. I was only going 1/4 mile down the road, i put it in 4 wheel low and it came right out like it was nothing. It was all gearing. I would NEVER tow that boat with what I had, but getting it out of the water was nothing.
This guys wasn't going anywhere, no way. Given the fact that his ass end was buried, he wasn't going far (BTW, I drive a tacoma now). Good that he got it out, and i'm not sure that it was even 4wheel drive, but getting it out and towing it are 2 different things.
just my .02
This guys wasn't going anywhere, no way. Given the fact that his ass end was buried, he wasn't going far (BTW, I drive a tacoma now). Good that he got it out, and i'm not sure that it was even 4wheel drive, but getting it out and towing it are 2 different things.
just my .02
03-08-2013, 09:36 PM
#29
Registered
Join Date: Dec 2011
Posts: 363
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Foreign companies providing American jobs my ass. The profits still go back to Japan, Korea, etc. If we as Americans refused to buy their crap and bought American vehicles our production would have to increase and wala!! who would have thought, we would have to hire more employes and not have to shut down factories. It's just stupid F%^%^ people buying foreign crap. If you're an American buy American. I have never owned a foreign vehicle and I never will.
03-08-2013, 10:01 PM
#30
Registered
Why is Gm and Chrysler handing out money to us for being citizens? Or are us citizens bailing them out?
Toyota USA is a USA corporation based in California, the are currently providing 37000 jobs right here in the USA.
The auto world is a global industry. Our good old American car companies have moved jobs an factories over seas or other places in north "America". Toyota, Hyundai, Mercedes, BMW, even Kia have all RECENTLY built plants HERE, and made jobs HERE.
Now you will counter that it is our fault for not buying American, and I will counter with how the American companies got greedy and forgot to add quality to there "name" therefore they lost customers to "jap" companies. BTW the jap and euro cars now cost more, and still outsell.
I am an American, I work for an American Petroleum company, but our auto industry is sad and they should be ashamed of themselves. Now we just have good ole boy's pointing the finger saying jap scrap and pearl harbor....Times have changed, maybe not on this site but inn reality they have changed.
My tundra 5.7 crew with the tow max package pulls my 38 just fine. Just put the first set of tires on it at 66,000 miles. That is the first and only thing it has needed. I did notice the brakes are half worn. My friend noticed the brakes are larger than his 2007 3500 Chevy diesel. He also noted that there was no rust anywhere, and the rear diff was larger than most 3/4 tons. I'm done buying junk cause it is "American" junk
My check list was even signed by a guy name John Williams at the factory in Texas....doesn't get more American than that
Toyota USA is a USA corporation based in California, the are currently providing 37000 jobs right here in the USA.
The auto world is a global industry. Our good old American car companies have moved jobs an factories over seas or other places in north "America". Toyota, Hyundai, Mercedes, BMW, even Kia have all RECENTLY built plants HERE, and made jobs HERE.
Now you will counter that it is our fault for not buying American, and I will counter with how the American companies got greedy and forgot to add quality to there "name" therefore they lost customers to "jap" companies. BTW the jap and euro cars now cost more, and still outsell.
I am an American, I work for an American Petroleum company, but our auto industry is sad and they should be ashamed of themselves. Now we just have good ole boy's pointing the finger saying jap scrap and pearl harbor....Times have changed, maybe not on this site but inn reality they have changed.
My tundra 5.7 crew with the tow max package pulls my 38 just fine. Just put the first set of tires on it at 66,000 miles. That is the first and only thing it has needed. I did notice the brakes are half worn. My friend noticed the brakes are larger than his 2007 3500 Chevy diesel. He also noted that there was no rust anywhere, and the rear diff was larger than most 3/4 tons. I'm done buying junk cause it is "American" junk
My check list was even signed by a guy name John Williams at the factory in Texas....doesn't get more American than that
