Your other Toyotas?

[JustPassinThru]

Originally Posted by yarisgeo13

This is my first owned toyota but I've seen and know other people that have one in the past and present. Like any other automotive, as long as YOU do what's is required to maintain, then the car/truck WILL last a very long time!! But in future plans, I'm going to upgrade to the SE version of my present car or the Camery SE.

I take exception to that.

I've been driving and owning cars a long, long time. Cars of the 1970s did NOT hold up, no matter HOW well you cared for them. With exceptions, of course; but it was rare to see 100,000 miles in one.

One Chevrolet I had had a connecting rod let go at 35,000 miles. That was the Grate GM Feeling of the time. Fords...on a quiet night you could hear your Ford rust, what with all the cheap recycled steel used in them. A five-year-old Ford was an old Ford.

It was the Japanese, led by Toyota, which shifted the paradigm. The first Japanese cars sold here, rusted horribly...but instead of giggling about increased future sales, as Ford and GM did, the Japanese engineers got to work to SOLVE the problem. And they did; and with it they applied superior engineering to their drivetrains.

It was not a secret making an engine last for decades or hundreds of thousands of hours - tractors last a lifetime with only basic care. But the American companies would NOT put that sort of engineering into their CARS.

Until Toyota and other Japanese companies did.