Why do you drive Toyota?

**redneckgirl** · 10-15-2011, 12:05 PM

It seems like everyone has a truck brand they prefer for one reason or another. I was just curious, what turned you on to Toyota?

**GearHead** · 10-15-2011, 11:35 PM

Well, the answer to this question is simple for me: Toyota makes the best smaller trucks out there, period. They seem to last the longest with the least problems, are easy to modify, and are fun to drive.

**redneckgirl** · 10-17-2011, 04:36 PM

I have always had 'big' trucks, always king cabs and gas hogs. my husband bought an s-10 a few years ago and it was actually enjoyable to drive. my father in law has a toyota but it is always breaking down. Someone told us it must be some kind of fluke because they are normally pretty reliable. We're thinking about another truck here after the new year, so i thought i might look more into the toyotas. I like the ground clearance they have more so than the s-10 my husband drives.

**1 bad tacoma** · 10-17-2011, 06:00 PM

the toughness of the trucks they are long lasting

**GearHead** · 10-18-2011, 02:27 AM

Originally Posted by redneckgirl

I have always had 'big' trucks, always king cabs and gas hogs. my husband bought an s-10 a few years ago and it was actually enjoyable to drive. my father in law has a toyota but it is always breaking down. Someone told us it must be some kind of fluke because they are normally pretty reliable. We're thinking about another truck here after the new year, so i thought i might look more into the toyotas. I like the ground clearance they have more so than the s-10 my husband drives.

I had a 98 S10 from 2003-5, and it was always breaking down. The Toyota that I got after that was a decade older with 100k more miles and it never once left me stranded, although I did have to swap out a few minor parts once in a while. Much better truck than the S10 though, I can say that for sure.

**redneckgirl** · 10-18-2011, 02:56 PM

thanks, i appreciate the info!

**tbplus10** · 10-18-2011, 10:16 PM

Necessity, my first Toyota truck was because I was deploying overseas for 3 years and needed a truck that I could depend on and find parts for in any country. We had previously been stationed in the Phillipines for 2 years and our Chevy truck was not only to big for most of the roads but impossible to get parts for and get repaired.
Over the next 20 years we continued buying new Toyota trucks to take overseas with us every time we moved to a different country.

**redneckgirl** · 10-19-2011, 10:41 AM

I'm starting to like more and more of what I hear. We actually live in Mexico and you are so right about the size of the streets in certain countries! They have 2 way streets but are more like 1.25 lanes with huge potholes.

**toyotafan** · 10-24-2011, 10:25 AM

what exactly are the roads in mexico like anyhow?

**redneckgirl** · 10-24-2011, 06:51 PM

The highways are nice, but the roads in the city are pretty bad. There will be potholes all the way through the pavement and into the underlying earth and it takes like an act of congress to get it fixed. Sometimes there are sinkholes and people just stick tree branches in them so drivers won't run into them. When they do fill the pot holes, they just make mounds of asphalt in them, which makes them even bumpier.