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Originally Posted by AstulzerRZD
Yeah the other Toyota North American specials had about $5 in development budget.
Tundra seats and engine crack in year one, Sequoia is objectively terrible, Tacoma is mid.
TX and Grand Highlander will be fine for 10 years - they're just TNGA-K with an extra foot of space.
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The Sequoia trunk is terribad. How in this day and age, can you have a STEPPED trunk floor after you fold the seats? How did that pass focus groups? how did the engineering team, design team, and marketing team ALL SIGN OFF on such BS design?
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Originally Posted by RabidRat
I wonder what's causing the turbo / throttle weirdness. It's too consistent among newer cars and across manufacturers to be a single stroke of incompetence / not giving a damn.
It must be an emissions thing. Like maybe they want to prevent that thing from spooling until they're damn sure that you want it, and that way they can eke out just a bit more mpg for the window sticker.
Maybe that'll be the next car modding movement: tuning that out, along with fixing rev hang for manuals: MERA: Make Experience of driving Reasonably fun Again. Not very catchy. We'll work on that.
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Definitely gonna be some fuel economy test gaming and emissions gaming going on. Combine that with a laggy pedal and probably lack of prespooling like BMW does.
One thing I noticed with our X3 is, if you put it in sport mode, it's still burning a small amount of fuel even if you are completely off throttle, so it seems like it's doing some form of "anti-lag" where the turbo is kept spinning to maintain response. Guarantee you Toyota wouldn't do something like that and it's full open wastegate.
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Originally Posted by bcrdukes
They still make the Sequoia? I thought Toyota killed it off a while ago. (Then again, I don't really follow Toyota.)  |
It got a new generation together with the Tundra and Taco. The North American only trucks are really all the same underneath, but a different length sausage.