Re: GM Dealer Challenges the Toyota Tundra's Ads... AS BULL

Mar 29, 2007 1 Replies
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From what I read there are likely TWO in your state. ;)


mike


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>>>> As an aside, I decided to drag race - well, sort of - my wife >>>> yesterday.
>>>> She was in her '05 Vue and I in my '06 Avalanche.
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>>>> Her 240 HP V6 completely outran my 310 HP V8. Of course, her car weighs
>>>> 3,400 lbs. compared to my truck at almost 6,000 lbs.
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>>>I was following a Ferrari something, red, the other day, and at each stop
>>>the chap would gun it and then fly down the road - long twisting roads
>>>with only a few stops. It was funny as he could not pull away from my
>>>Dakota Quad 4x4 v8 truck. He kept looking back and I don't think that he
>>>ever gained more than 50' on me :)
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>> I'm calling bull s*it on this....LOL
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> Maybe the chap didn't know what he had or how to drive it, but you could
> hear his engine and it didn't sound like he was backing off it at all. I
> just kept the foot on the floor and stayed right with him.
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> I'm going to be trading the Dakota Quad 4x4 v8 in on a FJ, but I don't
> seem to be seeing any post by FJ owners.
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> Leythos
> snipped-for-privacy@rrohio.com (remove 999 for proper email address)
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That's fine. I just think they deliberatly constructed the commercial to make it seem as if the Tundra had exceptional brakes. Instead of running a 0-60-0 comparison, they could have run a straigth 0-60 and/or 60-0 comparison. But if they had done that, only the 0-60 would have been exceptional. By doing the commercial as shown, they were trying to make people think the brakes were really good - when they aren't anything special.

I test drove both an AWD and a FWD Fusion and honestly couldn't tell much difference. But I didn't run one through a slalom course. I got the AWD one anyhow. You can't get an AWD Camry or Accord. I don't know how the 4 cylinder FWD Fusion would have compared to the Accord or Camry. According to the Consumer Reports road tests, a 4 cylinder Fusion (well actually the Mercury version) accelerated as fast a 4 cylinder Camry, and the FWD version handled the same as the AWD version.

The Ford V-6 is plenty strong and the interior is very nice. A FWD Camry equipped like my AWD Fusion would have been at least $3000 more, plus I would have had to deal with the lousy Toyota dealers in my area.

Ed

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