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Anton Chigurh

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  1. Do y'all consider the new American Land Cruiser an actual LC? Cause they have the LC 300 in other markets. What we're getting is the smaller Prado.. I'm really on the fence with it... I'm kinda losing interest in modern Toyotas with their turbo charged mini-engines and hybrids. It kinda eliminates their one selling point - reliability. Thoughts? I haven't looked through too much of this thread.

    They’re all on the TNGA-F platform anyway, so, yes.

    Turbo and hybrid doesn’t inherently limit their reliability at all (I will concede having to replace the battery eventually, but it’s kind of a wear item anyway, just as a timing belt would be).

    People keep clamoring that turbos aren’t reliable, but Toyota has been using them in Land Cruisers since the 80s.
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  2. How would I get on this waitlist?  I've heard of people doing it for the Bronco, Corvette, etc. but I'm not sure what the process is.  Seems like a no-brainer for the new 4Runner.

    It will just be dealer specific on how they handle it. However, Toyota doesn’t do custom orders. At least, not in the traditional sense.


    From a Reddit post. It’s from a year ago so the last paragraph is slowly getting better, but the problem still exists:

    Toyota does not do custom orders. They utilize an allocation based system where the dealer is allowed to make change requests on assigned incoming units. It’s like ordering, but you’re much more limited in what you can do.

    With the allocations, its all based on sales performance. For our example let’s imagine we’re Longo Toyota in California. For this month Toyota is prepared to build 10,000 4Runners for the US. They’ll divide that amount among the different sales regions in the US (SET, GST, Cincinnati, Denver, New York, Portland, LA, SF, etc). Let’s say the LA region gets 1000 of those units. Now those units will get split up among ten sales districts. District 8, which Longo is in, gets 100 units. And then finally that gets split up into the dealer level and Longo gets 10. The bigger the dealer the more they get, the smaller the less they get. It’s not unreasonable to expect some small town dealers to get as little as one or even zero allocations that month.

    But wait, what about all the different trim levels? So let’s imagine that 40% of all 4Runners are SR5, 30% TRDOR, 20% Limited, and 10% Pro. If the allocations are divided similarly, then of Longo’s 10 units 4 are SR5, 3 TRDOR, 2 Limited, and 1 Pro. The choices are even further limited once you factor in the deciding packages, colors, and options.

    But we don’t just have to accept the choices Toyota assigns to us right? That is correct, but with a huge asterisk. We absolutely cannot change the trim levels themselves. Interior color for whatever reason is possible but has a slim success rate. Packages are also possible but still difficult. Exterior color is easy and so are port installed options.

    So in the context of ordering a vehicle from Toyota, we’re banking on the fact that we have an incoming allocation that at least matches the trim level and package. From there we’d hope to make the necessary changes to accommodate the customer request. If we don’t have any matching incoming units, we can take a look at the other dealers allocations and request a trade with them. If no dealers will trade with us, then the last resort is to put you on a waiting list, and put in what’s called a preference request with Toyota and hope they grant it.

    The problem is that Toyota can’t just grant all the preference requests. That’s not how their production system is set up. They’re still pulling from a predetermined pool of vehicles. To grant you a unit would likely mean pulling that unit from elsewhere in the pool. So Toyota needs to determine if that would make sense or not.

    The problem you’re likely facing now is that these inventory issues have been going since last year and demand has been dramatically increasing. They can’t keep up. So now the wait lists at many of the dealers have been building up. You’ve got dealers promising no markup, but everybody is trying to get on their waitlist and it would be impossible for them to fulfill all those orders. Or you’ve got dealers charging an arm and a leg with no wait list, but who wants to pay that?
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  3. Max
    P1 1:28.6
    P2 1:28.0
    P3 1:28.2
    Q: 1:26.7
    Different conditions yes, but front row time would have put him at the top of each practice session. 

    Yes, but practice times are pretty far off full beans Q3 times. I’m not trying to downplay him at all, Red Bull themselves said his times were what sealed the deal this morning. I’m just adding some context.
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  4. official:
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    i love Danny, but...
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    then again isn't Barretto quite reliable?
     


    The conditions are totally different. Qualy for the race was in drying conditions, plus cooler track temp, etc.
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  5. I mean if they are there, they should talk.
    If they don't want to talk...don't be there.


    Hell, they are even obligated to talk as a condition of being gifted the passes. This was clarified after the Serena Williams and Megan Thee Stallion “incidents”.

    I generally like Alanis (and she’s a UT grad), but that’s a poor take.
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  6. This looks like a Ferrari that's been sitting out in the sun for 7 years. What was the old car polish commercial where they went to a junkyard, spread it on a car that had been sitting it the finish was like new again?

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