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We are never going back to the days of carbs, mech fuel pumps run off the cam, and standing in the engine bay while working on the car's engine. But what can I buy new or slightly used that isn't a death trap, and can most likely be repaired at home with a decent set of hand tools and a jack if something goes wrong? No removing the front end bodywork to get to a windshield washer pump (Subaru), no jacking the engine off its mounts to get to an alternator (Mazda), no disassembling the engine bay to replace a sensor (VW). And for f**k's sake, no turbo or hybrid anything (Ford).

We are never going back to the days of carbs, mech fuel pumps run off the cam, and standing in the engine bay while working on the car's engine. But what can I buy new or slightly used that isn't a death trap, and can most likely be repaired at home with a decent set of hand tools and a jack if something goes wrong? No removing the front end bodywork to get to a windshield washer pump (Subaru), no jacking the engine off its mounts to get to an alternator (Mazda), no disassembling the engine bay to replace a sensor (VW). And for f**k's sake, no turbo or hybrid anything (Ford).

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In my life the easiest vehicles to work on and find parts for has been Toyota, dont know about their new shit but the old trucks run good.

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Toyota is discontinuing their super reliable v8 and retooling their factories to make twin turbo v6's instead. I don't know what they're thinking.

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Toyota engines will last decades longer than the car itself.

If i got given a contract to buy a fleet of cars at the moment it would probably be Kias. Great gearboxes and nowhere near as plasticky and thin on the inside as corollas, 7 year warranty. Drove corollas at home for years but thr CVT in them now is utter fucking shit and they raped my local community by shutting down the 50 year old factory nearby, signed up with goget for a while and actually preferred their Ceratos.

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As a long time owner of an '85 4runner, an '88 landcruiser, and a '03 Tundra, I wholeheartedly agree. Easiest to work on, and parts are insanely easy to get.

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and now toyota has gone woke.

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Yep, it seems to happen to too many companies. I'm at the age now though that I don't see myself needing to buy a new one, maybe not ever.

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Toyota didn't really go woke. I had to research this to find out what really happened. Yota gave $ to many Republicans who challenged the election results. Totally normal, they give money to politicians. (NOTE: $ to politicians who are in the districts that have Yota factories, thus = republicans) Leftists screamed like Hell "TOYOTA GIVES $ TO RACIST REPUBLICANS CHALLENGING THE ELECTION RESULTS". Toyota said "Really? Are we not supposed to give $ to politicians???" Woke leftists said "NO, YOU CANNOT GIVE $ TO REPUBLICANS".

Yota said, "OK, whatever, we won't give them $ anymore". THAT IS IT, THAT IS ALL, SIMPLE---Yota won't give $ to Republicans who wanted to challenge election results.

To me, that is not going "full woke". I'll still buy a Yota, any day, all day, every day.

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88 toyota long bed pu 387000 still going . cake to work on

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pats for Toyota ONLY come from Japan. You will never find Toyota parts in a junkyard.

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Have you never heard of "pull your own part" junkyards? There are MILLIONS OF TOYOTAS in junkyards. THOUSANDS within 20 miles of me right now. Co- part .com, car-part .com, row 52 . com, I could go on and on.....

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side story for ya - we have a car auction mob called shannons, deals with specialist type stuff, did a training job for them once and their showroom had a bunch of interesting stuff, old racecars, but this drab olive fj40 like my old man had, thought it was odd, asked someone what it was about, dude had no idea said hed tell me later. Got back to me afterwards why it was special -

The owner had done half a 'Radar O'Reilly' and between Repco, Toyota and Gregory's maintenance manual, managed to hand build from OEM spares an FJ40 from ground up.