XPost: alt.autos.toyota, rec.autos.tech   
   From: cewhite3@mindspring.com   
      
   "Ashton Crusher"  wrote in message   
   news:rug2e5pkshla9ugm0ng3480i4f2ev02r9a@4ax.com...   
   > On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:54:53 -0500, Steve  wrote:   
   >   
   >>   
   >>And where's the surprise here?   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>A massively over-bulked pickup introduced at the start of a gas   
   >>price   
   >>spike. With no 3/4 or one-ton option to appeal to contractors. With   
   >>no   
   >>diesel option to appeal to farmers, moving companies, RV-towing   
   >>retirees, or other mid-sized hauling operations. With an immediate   
   >>record of reliability problems guaranteed to scare away cautious,   
   >>bottom-line oriented, data-driven fleet buyers who don't buy into   
   >>the   
   >>Japanese reliability mythos as readily as consumers.   
   >>   
   >>It was a condo-dweller's  weekend Home Depot run truck (or city   
   >>poseur   
   >>truck to be blunt) introduced at the VERY instant in time when the   
   >>demand for city poseur trucks was guaranteed to tank.   
   >   
   >   
   > Is it really that bad? What have been the reliability problems?  I   
   > only know one person who owns a Tundra and he seems to like it.  I   
   > know several people with the Tacoma?  the smaller one and they all   
   > like them.   
      
   The smaller Tundra was a much better vehicle. The new huge Tundra is a   
   bad copy of a Silverado that incorporates as many bad Ford and Dodge   
   ideas as they could tack on. Billions wasted.   
      
   Ed   
      
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