"How Toyota Got the 2024 Land Cruiser So Wrong" - Good history of Land Cruiser/GX with a great GX 550 shout out in the end

"How Toyota Got the 2024 Land Cruiser So Wrong" - Good history of Land Cruiser/GX with a great GX 550 shout out in the end

It's an old one by now, so I don't think it needs spoiler alert. Got on a Land Cruiser history dive and landed on this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlhSgUh_6VY

Enjoyed the breakdown of Land Cruiser family and re-affirmed GX 550 as the one to get.

u/mountaineer — 3 days ago

Car Curious

You are listening to a car podcast and a host names a car, a part, or a term you do not know. A photo of the car or an explanation comes up on screen while the episode keeps playing. One glance at the phone on a walk or while doing chores. No pausing, no searching, no scrubbing back to catch what they said.

It runs on the same index as getcarcurious.com: 280 car shows, with the cars and terms tagged as the host says them. You can also search it the other way around. Pick a car and you get the episodes where hosts talk about it.

Needs an iPhone or iPad. Free for launch, no App Store date yet.

A few things that would help: annotations that are wrong, annotations that land at the wrong moment, and anything flaky in playback itself or make a podcast player great.

More about it: https://getcarcurious.com/

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u/mountaineer — 13 days ago

New dream car - first time seeing CT4-V Blackwing in blue

Not mine, spotted at Portland Cars & Coffee this morning. But, which blue is it? Coastal blue metallic or Electric? What year is it?

u/mountaineer — 3 months ago
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Toyota quietly filed for a $2 billion plant expansion in Texas - codenamed "Project Orca," could bring Tacoma production back to the US

Surfaced through a Texas Comptroller filing per Automotive News. The expansion would sit next to Toyota's existing San Antonio facility, which already builds the Tundra and Sequoia. Construction could start as early as this year; first vehicles targeted for 2030.

Autoblog notes the location and timing suggest Tacoma repatriation. No official confirmation on the model yet, r/Toyota is speculating Stout, Maverick competitor, or HiLux. One person in that thread says they work at the San Antonio plant and hasn't heard anything internally.

Source: Automotive News

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u/mountaineer — 3 months ago
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https://www.classic.com/veh/2005-bmw-330i-zhp-wbaev53405km08705-4ZOQNan/

Noticed this Imola Red ZHP sold for $27,500. A little surprised by that number. It's a new high water mark, and 3.5x what I paid for mine 4 months ago.

I just bought mine on C&B in January, the lowest sale on Classic.com's recent comp list. Wasn't thinking about it as an investment, just wanted to drive one.

Obviously not the same car. Not looking to sell, I like driving it. But if the market's actually moving, there are a few other cars on my list I'd love to experience someday, and that changes the math a bit.

What do you think's driving this? Or is the Bay 22 sale just a unicorn? (EAG has one listed over $42k, so I guess that's the real ceiling, but it's been sitting a while.)

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u/mountaineer — 4 months ago