I really didn't want to bring it to this, one bit...
What is your problem? You really just have to go there don't you and play the baiting game?
This issue of yours has nothing to do with the 220D Program TX being announced today by Lexus USA.
Anyone here with common sense, already read what you said
here and my own
quick retraction after further clarification, that the GX was not that TX vehicle, displayed on December 14, 2021 next to several other 2022, 2023, and 2025 model year Lexus ICE vehicles.
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Bad information was passed onto me privately by a good source on things Toyota who I STILL trust, as mistakes happen. You thankfully helped clear things up over here without violating Lexus' privacy on their proprietary information, yet all this time later you still find it ever so amusing to shadily deride me in my absence? It is not my fault
@NXracer saw what I posted elsewhere and brought it up over here, without me being able to clarify the context of the claim. I'm not mad at
@NXracer either, it was posted in good faith plainly by them.
These kind of issues, are exactly why I am not enamoured over the fact a number of users (in very good faith) have a tendency to reference my posts elsewhere and in crossposting, bring it over here specifically not even to my knowledge (and consent), for it to be heavily dissected and scrutinized by any detractors ready on the prowl, whether right or sometimes wrong. If I am not actively posting here, I cannot directly clarify nor correct anything taken out of context.
Instead, you took the opportunity to make a mockery out of it, amongst some others. I have never done that to you in any instance ever, but you have no qualms doing so towards me. Whether openly expressing distaste or throwing shade, ever so disrespectfully.
I've seen some of the occasional comments you've made in relation to me the past 2-3 years and this disappoint me greatly, considering how I have never badmouthed you publicly nor privately to the same degree. I quietly bowed out of here for my own reasons, when I saw I didn't want to toxify the positive environment (which many forums only wish they could hope to have), in fear of my own inability to be objective in certain situations, possibly tainting discourse in the The Garage forum. I also did't care for partisan rancor over much of 2019-20 towards other brands/companies, so I left to keep a cool head and not ruin the good atmosphere.
Yet, things were said in my absence that were inaccurate and in some cases, constituted character attacks. I've also seen commentary of mine from elsewhere, chopped up and used by one poster in bad faith, by removing me from any context deliberately. Knowing or not, that they were helping give cause to your negative sentiment towards me, as you expressed in this post right
here.
I won't name who, but it is only one user here who is doing that (not you) and I can imagine it's either from PMs where I come up or a possibly one-sided perspective from past public discourse here, painting a slanted narrative. If someone wants to be claiming that I make things up or copy other people online, while another feeds into that implication and then copies my (credible) commentary from elsewhere, removing me from the context, I can only imagine it is deliberate. I'm not blind to it at all and I've been watching...
I don't profess to be
all-knowing, I never have. Other people put that on me, when I have a very busy life to live and not much free time I can peddle away on the computer leisurely in my capacity. I don't know how the rest of you do it, by logging in all the time and managing work-life balance too. I don't do social media, I don't do vlogging nor blogging.
I cannot keep up with online activity and do not consider myself a forum regular of any website. Not in the least, yet it is opportunity for many people to use that as reasons to castigate and judge me, as if I'm in any given forum 24/7, leaving them with no break from me.
I've bit my tongue and kept quiet in 99% of these instances and still recommended this very forum to people elsewhere, as a great environment to discuss things Lexus/Toyota at an intelligent level. My goodness, the new CEO of this company is a friend of the forum in my opinion. I tell other people that as a boost to it and I pushed this forum Lexus Enthusiast as better than the other one(s). I painfully did it, as if some of what I've seen here didn't offend me and hurt me more by not even defending against it and setting things straight.
I've also credited you for many things you've educated me on, but that isn't enough. Instead, it's your license to claim things like you did
here and imply I just borrow everything I know from you and websites. Well, that is absolutely not accurate and you clearly don't respect me at all, to imply such an incredibly toxic fallacy and maybe laugh over it.
No one
outed me for anything like you daringly claimed, because when I first saw that comment of yours in 2021, I was puzzled and reviewed every single page I had posted on within a 30 day window on Club Lexus. I came up with zero accusations of the sort. I realized you were making something of nothing or just throwing shade, based on your own misgivings and not fact. Giving users here the false impression, I was busted and called out for some nonsense. I can't believe that is you chose to interpret things.
In reality, in September 2021 on Club Lexus I had congratulatory referred to you in regards to some things Land Cruiser related as being my source (possibly), which I had already done previously in 2019-20 over here. You seem to forget these things being cleared up or addressed and instead subconsciously carry an awful grudge, which shows itself much later. Whether it's the GX/TX fiasco or some other belief you have against me.
I've never done that to you and there have been past instances, I could have. I would respect that you posted/shared in good faith and left well enough alone, if something ever seemed off to me. I have respected you enough to do that and not badger you, like I would numerous others who intently report wrong information (out of willful ignorance).
The very instance I trust someone else's insight on the 2024 MY Lexus SUVs and make a mistake by doing so, you use it as a launchpad to mock me. That says a lot doesn't it?
@NXracer who in good faith paraphrased a comment of mine
here on July 13, 2022, would have seen me correct course on my mistake and before that,
you thankfully set everyone straight on the accurate narrative. (I won't even comment on other users' responses to that.) David Chao and many others make glaring mistakes, yet they shy away from admitting to it. I do not play that kind of game.
July 5, 2022
July 16, 2022
That should've been the end of it, but not for you apparently. You make it seem like I am still obtusely insistent on that teaser rendering from 2021 being the GX 550, when anyone from Adam who sees me refer to either the GX or TX since July 2022, knows they've been only shown the TX and sure as hell not the GX.
I quickly corrected course when notified about the gaffe by someone else here, thanks to you shutting it down. The 6-7 months prior to my July 2022 conversation with my contact, I was immediately convinced upon reveal that it was the TX. I broke from that TX belief per their own mistaken claims derailing me, not my own independent thoughts.
My source sidestepped it, when I politely brought up my concerns with the misinformation. His later stated that his work didn't grant access to 2024 GX and he ended up working on 220D aka 2024 TX not too long afterward and confirmed it was an honest mistake he made. Does that invalidate him? Absolutely not! You make these mistakes and you learn from them.
I am just a messenger all-around, where the automotive media suck at exercising due diligence and I act as a middleman for owners/enthusiasts. You know this too personally and have done your best as well to fill in the gaps, where the media fails to.
On the rarest of visits to Toyota facilities the past few years, I am obviously not granted access to proprietary information. All of my insight on them is gathered off-site, because if it was from on-site visits, then a chunk of personnel needed to be fired for certain. Even at that, Toyota has not been very cautious with guarding their own proprietary information at Headquarters Drive and Woodbridge at times, as I have luckily caught things most people wouldn't and I rarely mention my discoveries out of respect.
Like just about anyone who doesn't work for Lexus nor Toyota at large, I am not going to have firsthand information on what they're doing. I'm not supposed to and if I do, it will be limited to a degree, solely from industry research & undiscovered leaks. Secondhand? Absolutely, that's what I work with mostly. I can only rely on private discussion and research I employ on my end as an expert at it.
Thirdhand information, I try to stay away from as much as I can. Other people can never rarely do a good enough job, of interpreting another person's firsthand insight for me. Well, except for you? Aren't you the guy who told clued me into any Land Cruiser future at all, 4.5 years before it goes on sale at the end of March 2024? I gleefully hinted at it in this forum and zipped it out of respect. You must have taken offense to that, to imply I just "copy" from other places.
How ever you learn Toyota/Lexus insight, is not my business. IF you are receiving insight from personnel privately and withholding it from public knowledge to protect your sources & forum TMNA relationship, that's your prerogative. I don't talk about everything I come across, especially things I am directly involved in (non-Toyota). The times that I do have Toyota corporate insight, I am dependent on what that person is sharing and cannot control whether it is correct or not. To expect any different is ridiculous.
There's no reason for things to be this way at all and it needs to stop now. I've had enough of it and you need to get past whatever issue it is you have with me. I have nothing but great things to say about you elsewhere, yet you are ever so pleased to do the very opposite in my absence, as an administrator of this forum. It is discomforting and exhausting at this point. I've had zero ill will towards you, but this right here just doesn't make sense at all.
I've said mine and hate it had to come to this.
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