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    Official Lexus Future Product & Powertrain Megathread

    It's more like anti-Asian in general, like for example Europe bans the palm oil from my country to be exported into their market lol.
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    Official Lexus Future Product & Powertrain Megathread

    I call BS on these articles, maybe the PHEVs from some other brands that run out of electricity way too easily and way too often might be the ones that emit significantly more CO2 than advertised (mainly the PHEVs from the German brands), but Toyota's PHEVs have been pretty good at maintaining a...
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    Official Lexus Future Product & Powertrain Megathread

    I don't understand what the hell does Honda even want to do, their plans are all over the place. Not saying some other brands aren't also running around like headless chickens, but Honda might be one of the worst offenders in this regard.
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    Hyundai Motor Group no No. 3 automaker in sales volume | More fires

    Launches a performance sub-brand, mentions nothing about performance improvements, 100% big brain move šŸ˜‚ Also Magma sounds like a name that Mitsubishi of the 80s and 90s would use lol.
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    Official 5th Generation GS Thread: Returning with Hydrogen Power?

    Meanwhile their current cars (excluding the GR cars): Turbo engines that lack punch and automatic transmissions that shift like a dumbass. What the hell happened to you, Toyota? You don't mind going backwards like Subaru?
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    12th Generation E120 Toyota Corolla Thread (Hatch, Sedan, Cross, GR)

    I know the GR-Four awd system came out a few years already, but I'm still a little disappointed that it isn't an AWD system with a center differential, especially after seeing some people facing the awd clutch coupling disengaging from overheating and becoming a fwd car lugging around extra weight.
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    2023 Toyota Alphard and Vellfire

    When some of their previous gen ATs feel less crappy than the current direct shift 8 speed AT šŸ¤”, so much for all those videos they've released claiming how great this transmission is.
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    2023 Toyota Alphard and Vellfire

    It's like the only really good pure ICE powertrain that Toyota has right now is the G16E-GTS, but then again that's a GR engine, not an engine for mainstream Toyotas. A few years ago, some of us were still speculating and thinking this 2.4T is going to a super competitive engine that can easily...
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    Lexus Racing Megathread

    IMO, their current way of doing BoP is like turning a professional racing series into something more like modern day kindergarten, even if you suck big time you're still given a win.
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    Lexus Racing Megathread

    Put a pile of concrete blocks to slow the Toyotas down again, and when you are at, why not push them off the track in the 1st corner as well šŸ™„ Freaking unwatchable I tell you. Are many other car manufacturers these days so broke that the only way to make their race cars seem competitive is to...
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    4th Generation Toyota Century Thread [Officially Revealed]

    Honestly, even until now I'm still both surprised and confused as to why Toyota suddenly decided to slap their long running RWD luxury car nameplates (Crown and Century) onto a bunch of FWD based vehicles, riding on a platform that's somewhat related to a Camry that starts at a little over $26k...
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    Tesla - Brand Perception/Opinions

    Nothing like some quick and easy drug money šŸ„“šŸ¤Ŗ
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    Toyota Yaris Master Thread (Sedan & Hatch Discontinued for USA)

    https://www.motorsport.com/wrc/news/fia-launches-wrc-fan-survey/10573862/ https://yonder.online-host.solutions/ASP/P024491/StartSurvey.asp?project=P024491 WRC currently launched a survey to hear the opinions from rally fans. Maybe they're finally indirectly admitting that they've become too...
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    The new BMW 5 Series and i5

    The design limitations of this platform is pure a$$
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    Toyota chief apologizes for cheating on testing at group company _ again

    Exactly the kind of response I expected from here šŸ™„ Anyways, I really hope Mr Toyoda and Mr Sato are able to keep Toyota's subsidiaries in line, because clearly these subsidiaries are still managed by really toxic and out of touch people that probably should've been fired long ago.
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    Toyota chief apologizes for cheating on testing at group company _ again

    ā€œMeet engine performance output standardsā€ Whatever the F those standards are lol. Seriously, wtf is going on with Toyota's subsidiaries? Are they all basically one of those stereotypical Japanese companies with management that always gives out unreasonable goals and demands, and their R&D...
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    Toyota Yaris Master Thread (Sedan & Hatch Discontinued for USA)

    https://www.motorsport.com/wrc/news/analysis-wrc-teams-weigh-in-on-rally2-replacing-rally1-debate/10568210/ I'd take upgraded Rally2 cars to be the new Rally1 cars over the current Rally1 cars in a heartbeat. Of course, Toyota is open to all sorts of ideas. Meanwhile Hyundai is being very...
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    Official Lexus Future Product & Powertrain Megathread

    I'm probably going to get tossed for saying this, but is it really a good idea for Lexus to become a full EV brand now that more and more consumers have realised how impractical and dangerous EVs truly are? Unless solid state batteries are some kind of miracle battery that have no downsides at...
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    Official Lexus Future Product & Powertrain Megathread

    Can we add a drooling reaction to this forum? Because that's what I'm doing after seeing this piece of information.
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    Tokyo Auto Salon 2024

    At this point, I'd be more surprised if the WRX doesn't also die in such a sad and lame way, based on the direction that Subaru has been heading towards. Their ARA WRX rally car and 24 hours of Nurburgring WRX endurance racer are both so highly modified that they barely represent the WRX that...