Toyota Camry. It's boring, yes, but if you plan on driving that much you want an appliance that's reliable. Most of the cars being mentioned here might offer a great driver experience, but their reliability is spotty, exactly what you don't want if you're planning on racking up the miles.
Mind you, I'd never get a Camry for myself. But I've known plenty of people who own them and most have had a long trouble free life. You can't argue with dependability.
However, there are some good alternatives. The most notable that comes to mind are GM products from the 90s. Underrated but that 3.8 will just go forever. Other bits might not last, but you'll still have a car that runs.
That was a very good horsepower figure. The fact that they used an 8 liter engine to accomplish that is a bit insane, but I don't think I've ever heard of anyone having an issue with that engine or its performance.
Looks promising, but not quite as nice as or distinctive as the C30. At least judging from this one grainy photo.
What I really like about this guy is that he wrecks the curve. He wasn't a dumb kid who grew up thinking he was going to be an NBA star. He had parents who demanded excellent in school and who probably encouraged basketball mainly so that he'd have a well-rounded experience. Basketball was almost incidental and was clearly secondary to school work.
It's quite a different attitude from a lot of the guys I went to school with growing up. Too many of them deluded themselves into believing they could make it big, especially the guys who played for varsity teams and where halfway decent. Everyone, including their parents placed too much importance on sports. And for nearly all of them it's gone nowhere. Even worse were the ones who thought their fall back career was as a hip hop star. There weren't many of those, but they did exist.
I'd like to know who was the jerk that saw the original photo and thought, "this just isn't extreme enough" and decided to modify it. He should consider a job in advertising, he'd fit right in.
The Taiwanese media has nothing better to do. They're just using this as an excuse to show photos of a girl in panties. I'm pretty sure all the guys in the editing department are getting off on this.
And the police department has nothing better to do than make a public display of indignation because they're often impotent. Cops there put up with stuff that in the States would have gotten someone stunned and eating a mouthful of asphalt.
Does California put all those stupid signs all over every new car?
What does it take to injest this stuff? Do you have to lick the trim or eat it outright?
And how long does it take for this stuff to go away. That new car smell, if it's even connected to these chemicals, goes away fairly quickly. Additionally, not many people are driving around in a hot car without rolling down the windows or running the A/C, meaning that anything in the air is getting circulated out of the cabin fairly quickly.
The best part is that the incidence of harmful chemicals is probably a lot higher in the home.
Haven't studies shown that cancer rates have been declining for decades now? So things can't be that bad. And I'd be curious to know what chemical concentrations were like in cars from the 50s and 60s compared to today.
Toyota is resorting to the old American practice of dumping cars on rental companies? This is not a good sign. But at least they'll be able to claim hundreds of thousands of cars sold.
This is so true it's sad.
I thought that lead photo was a bunch of people dancing for some marketing campaign. Then I realized it was Jason Statham doing ballet at gunpoint.
Because racecar.
Given how Americans pronounce Toyota, the second "t" is practically a "d", Toyoda would roll off the tongue a lot more easily for most Americans. I'm pretty sure that didn't even factor into the naming. But the rationale behind going with Toyota is pretty cool and that kind of thinking is quite common in Asia when creating identities.
This is the kind of stimulus spending Americans need. It actually address traffic concerns, provides new links and helps stimulate the local economy long after it's been built.
Instead, around here, an obscene amount of money has been spent on minor improvements to an existing highway. And the best part is how this project started with a repaving. That was then torn up, with newly painted lines scratched off so that the whole roadway could be shifted over 3-4ft. They then proceed to install new wooden guardrails that were selected more for visual appeal than effectiveness. And the final paving was a lumpy, inconsistent mess. There are even stretches where the lines wander around like the driver was drunk or not paying attention. On top of that the money all went into the pockets of a construction company that already gets plenty of business from the state and this work has added nothing whatsoever to the region.
The article has photos of the roadway over the bridge. It's incredible how smooth and neat it looks. I think kind of quality is pretty much unheard of here. That same bridge in the US would cost at least twice as much, take 3 times as long to build and would come out a total mess. They actually managed to build the bridge below cost!
And that bridge doesn't go "nowhere". The Bloomberg article specifically states that the bridge was build to address population growth. Tokyo's suburbs have been seeing massive growth; the 3 fastest growing prefectures are all in the greater Tokyo region, also stated in the article.
These guys aren't right-wing so much as straight up racist. Right-wing is fundamentally a political ideology, and is not racially motivated. Left-wing governments can also be racist, i.e. Nazi Germany. A lot of the policies they'd support would be considered left-wing.
These guys basically drive around spewing crap about how great WW2 imperialist Japan, how pure the Japanese people are and how Japan's recession is the fault of foreigners and how they should all leave the country. I've also heard stories of those guys attacking foreigners, but I don't think it's nearly as prevalent as what you'll find in South Korea.
Japanese have a distinct tendency to claim guys like these are not really Japanese merely because it makes them uncomfortable. Kind of like the Japanese minor celebrity who recently attacked a taxi driver in Taiwan who a lot of Japanese are now claiming is not really Japanese.
One time, late at night, I was walking along a rail line through a small patch of farm land outside of Yokohama when I came across one of these vans. I decided it was a safe bet to take the long way home.
The camo paint scheme speakes to a military fetish, so what's with the peace sign?
I see the shit show continues inside.
I'm pretty sure that step is being used as an aerodynamic element to increase downforce. They wouldn't just throw in something like that for the hell of it.
I like the photo for #5. Miatas doing NASCAR. It's kind of cute.
You're going to need the extra room if you expect to have relations.
I actually played that damn game as a kid on my parent's PCjr.
It's not surprising. A lot of people who exercise intensely pretty much are addicted to it. I've known people who've had their significant others leave them because of it.
