Fuck Akio and Toyota

  • miguel@fedia.io
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    2 days ago

    The fact that I’ll probably never be able to afford a new car again gets easier to accept every year it seems. Yay? I guess?

    • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca
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      what would you want a new car for anyways?

      they:

      • track you and harvest and sell your data

      • are not easy to repair because they are not designed for it

      • are designed as obnoxiously as possible (see: blinding headlights, blind spots, size, noise levels from weight and wheel size, etc)

      • have excessive amounts of shitty tech ‘solutions’ to fulfill simple requirements (yes Daddy I loooove navigating menus on a touchscreen for my climate control and headlights)

      you couldn’t pay me to drive the average new car. I just bought a 2012 that I don’t even know if it passes safety yet, because it’s better than spending twice as much in something newer and inevitably shittier, even after considering the unknowns that will pop up. at least the problems my 2012 will have will be fixable.

  • reddig33@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Is this the same Toyota that sells like one EV model? Not exactly stunning leadership.

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    Toyota lobbies hard against CAFE standards. They don’t wanna sell Priuses, they wanna sell TRUCKS!!!

    • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world
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      Of course. They’re massively profitable.

      1. You can ignore half the emissions standards requirements

      2. People want them because they’re scared of driving a smaller vehicle while the other massive trucks on the road can crush them.

      3. They always talk about the ability to move things like furniture or equipment or things like thag despite only doing that twice a year, and rentals existing, including directly from places like Lowe’s and Home Depot.

      4. People are willing to pay a premium because they mistakenly think that bigger vehicles cost substantially more to make because bigger must mean a lot more material, despite most of a vehicle being empty space.

    • This is absolutely true, but at the same time they killed the bulletproof 5.7 V8 and replaced it with a twin turbo v6 that just barely gives 200lbs extra towing and just craps all over itself every time ruining the Toyota worldwide name for reliability

    • lemmylump@lemmy.worldOP
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      You purchased and paid it off before you knew, drive with a clear conscience until the wheels fall off and hope by then a better more ethical world exists.

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        I’m in the middle of my payment. I do hope, by the time I’m done, the world will have seen better leadership. But for now I will drive in shame nonetheless.

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    And sadly, Toyota about the only vehicle that I can comfortably sit in without my back being torn up.