subject: Toyota's Keep On Ticking Forever [print this page] It started when I was in high school and my brother bought a 10 year old Toyota truck. He didn't put anything into it, just kept driving it, even through his college years he kept driving that old Toyota. It wouldn't die, we bought it from him when we were in college and it kept on going for us, I hoped it would die, I prayed it would die, but it just kept on chugging on down the road. The same thing held true for some friends of ours. They bought an old Toyota truck and drove it until the body was rusting off of it, but the engine was indestructible. The husband finally gave it to a neighbor teen boy who was thrilled and is probably still driving it today.
Our son bought an Avalon that had been totaled in an accident. The body was repaired but repainted very good. The paint is falling off, the car is rusting away, but the engine has gone on smoothly, without any help on his part. Rarely even changes the oil, it just keeps on going. He has 198,000 miles on it and I don't see any end in sight for it unless the body just falls on the ground one day. I bought myself and our daughter bought herself a Corolla. They run maintenance free forever. You can buy a car for less, but why? You will get double the miles out of a Toyota. Family always tells us that they cost too much you can get a domestic for 5,000 less. Go ahead, buy a domestic, you will be lucky to get 100,000 miles. At 200,000 miles, Toyota's are just getting going. We have a friend in the neighborhood that is pushing 300,000 with his Toyota.
My husband bought the full size Tundra pick-up last year, he is like a kid in a candy shop. He loves it. He bought it from a kid who works in a Toyota dealer in Atlanta so it is all pimped up. Lift, rims, spot lights, extended bed, every option and extra available. My husband is pushing 50 but in his new truck he feels 17 again. And by the way, all the 17 year olds have to come over and talk to him and pet the truck every time he gets gas (which unfortunately is quite often).
We are the Toyota family, the only complaint I have is that never die so we never get new cars. Other than that, no complaints here, they just keep going and going and going.
