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I think that the Toyota concept is interesting, but I don't think it would suit me. As for all the bashing of GMC trucks, here is one happy owner.
I have had good luck with my American trucks. It also seems that the more I take care of the trucks, the luckier I get. My '92 GMC K2500 has about 90K short trip miles. Those are tougher on a truck than long trips. It has a 5.7L with auto and limited slip. It tows my 10,000 GW trailer. The truck has been fully maintained and has run mobil 1 since breakin. (It does not use a drop of oil between changes.) The only two long trips that the truck has taken is when running as a support truck on the Baja 1000 two times. That means that it runs on the race course with the racers, but is not racing them and can get off when necessary. Automatic transmissions do better at getting power to loose ground just like the arguments expressed here about HST on tractors. I will buy a new hauling truck someday, but this one has not quit or even slowed down. Its paint is dull, it has Baja racing stipes down the side (those scratches that you get running the truck through a gap in the pucker bushes that is five inches narrower than the body), it's gas milages sucks when towing, and it is geared so low that it doesn't like to go much above the max speed limit here which is 75 MPH. I don't know why this has been such a good truck, but it has. Incidently, it was built in Canada.
The only two problems that I have had with the truck have been minor electrical problems. These have probably been related to the off-road bashing that it has taken over the years. I think that I did replace the water pump a few years ago, but I consider that normal maintenance. It still has the original valves. It is on its fourth set of tires. It has been hit by other people in cars three times, and it only has a small blemish in one bumper.
I used to run a Toyota SR4 with 4 sp manual in Baja. It was a pretty good truck. But, I did have to rebuild the transmission a few times. Toyota had a design flaw in the tranny that caused bearing failure. I got to where I could park it on Friday evening and have it back together ready to go for work on Monday morning. One time in Baja I had a complete lighting system failure at around midnight. Believe me when I tell you that these are not skills that you want to develop. The one very good thing about the Toyota was that it was simple enough that you could repair it in the middle of the desert if you did not crack something. Most cars today can't make that claim.
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One thing that is certainly a factor is that we don't use any type of salt on the roads here, so corrosion of the body is not much of a problem. (I used to live outside of Chicago, so I do know what that is like.)
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