A Toyota Confessional: Only When You Beat On Them Do You Understand

Jon Summers is the Motoring Historian. He was a company car thrashing technology sales rep that turned into a fairly inept sports bike rider. On his show he gets together with various co-hosts to talk about new and old cars, driving, motorbikes, motor racing, motoring travel.

Jon narrates his unexpected journey of purchasing a 2016 Toyota Tundra Limited. Despite his longstanding preference for Rams with high performance engines, he opted for a Tundra for its practicality, reliability, and suitability for California's lifestyle. Jon recounts his experiences with various trucks, emphasizing the appeal of the Tundra's build quality and its suitability for both daily driving and towing. He also shares anecdotes from his visits to dealerships and the Toyota factory, highlighting cultural and historical aspects of Toyota's manufacturing. His detailed and personal account underscores the pragmatic choice of a vehicle that blends durability with everyday convenience.

• Trevor Something - Into Your Heart
• Toyota: respect, not love
• Dually Rams and buying vehicles to the nth degree
• No MoT, the Land of the Free
• The Hot Rod, with no mudguards or windshield
• A 2016 Toyota Tundra Limited
• Towed my Mercedes home
• Thanks, Toyota of Clovis
• Dodge Ram SRT10
• The 1000lb/ft Ram Dually…
• …as the 3 car hauler
• 68RFE vs Aisin
• Route 66 Road Trip Pod
• Lemonsquad
• Dodging two white Rams
• Escalades as the pinnacle tow vehicle
• Bought with 198k. One owner, Clean Carfax
• Toyota more school run friendly than ex-ranch Dually Ram with bullbar
• Truck needs to double as a luxury car
• Tundra as Land Cruise with bed and bigger motor
• Two sizes of crew cab - 3 Series or 7 Series size rear seats
• Tundra 1794
• Ford King Ranch
• The value of the back up camera
• The black Tundra with Arthur Daley in Sacramento
• CarUk Lee
• A word on 200k trucks
• Toyotas - “only when you beat on them - REALLY beat on them - do you understand” M. Newton
• Too hot for a road test
• Rabbit Pitts’ “Paw Paw” Truck
• The long life of Toyota trucks
• Pulling to the right, “they all do that, Sir”
• Towing the Mercedes home, in 116 degree heat
• A super capable tow vehicle
• Planning well to choose and look at truck, but not how to pay and get home
• Earlier experience with Toyotas as hot air balloon ground crew
• Other pod guests, Newton and Garcia love and always own Toyota trucks
• Domestic pick up size, V8, allied with Toyotas reliability
• Even if the reliability is a myth the perceived reliability drives value
• Ford truck motors highly stressed vs Chevy, Toyota
• Interior looks lke 40k, not 200k
• A visit to the Toyota factory
• Toyoda and Toyota
• Soichiro Honda as personification of the brand, and in motorsport
• Toyota isn’t racing, it’s rebuild the nation
• W210 Mercedes copied by Lexus GS300
• Toyota - cheap feeling materials like Ford but screwed together like and 80s Mercedes
• Experiments with High 4

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