Buy/Drive/Burn: Japanese Pickup Truck Impostors From 2008

Buy/Drive/Burn has focused solely on Japanese trucks lately, and thus far covered the Seventies, Eighties, and Nineties. Today we turn to the new century and take a look at three midsize Japanese pickups. They have something in common: All them are pretending to be a different brand than they actually are.

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  • Matthew When someone slows down for seemingly no reason at all...and then turns on their blinker and makes a painfully slow turn. It frequently makes me chew them out in Spanish. Spanish just sounds angrier than English.
  • Peter 100% of new Tacomas are now made in Mexico. More of Japan’s ef you sea kay USA.
  • Kendahl A very complicated VW that's 11 years old. A money pit even if it's been well maintained.
  • Kendahl One of the universities where I used to live has an FM station that mostly plays classical music. I would leave the radio turned on and tuned to that. AM? I haven't listened to AM since I got a radio that would receive FM.
  • S J I’m here to say I don’t know about H #, but in German b flat is sometimes called “H”.Thats why composers (Liszt IIRC) could compose a theme and variations on B A C H.b flat sharp would be C, so there wouldn’t be a point.