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Thanks! So I wasn't going crazy when I thought it was their V6's. Somebody in an automotive Facebook group I'm a part of has a hybrid Maverick. It's had a bunch of recalls but he hasn't had any issues with it...yet. It's only like a year old for him though. I do think the Maverick has been pretty reliable even though it's had a ton of recalls. I don't believe anything is consistently leaving anybody stranded. If it makes you feel any better, they contribute to both political parties. I'd assume they, like many other companies, do this to suck up to whomever wins.

Very interesting as it starts with one model and expands over the last year. Started in TurboCharged V6 https://www.motortrend.com/news/toyota-engine-recall-tundra-pickup-lexus-lx-suv Seems to have expanded to 4 bangers too. Toyota is recalling Tundra truck models, is it reliable? RCMN-24V381-0422.pdf Toyota PDF on the recall.

Toyota 4-cylinders had the same problem the Hyundai/Kia engines had, insufficient oiling. Their issue was 10+ years ago though and Toyota blamed it on the customer and improper maintenance. For Hyundai/Kia, it is largely limited to an earlier 4-cylinder design while Toyota had similar issues with their V6 back then also. While Hyundai/Kia's issues are not limited to engines with turbos, a car with a turbo is much harder on oil, so when the engine started to go it only made the issue worse. However, Toyota has a more recent issue with engines blowing up, specifically the new 4-cylinder hybrid being used in the iForce-Max trucks. There's a manufacturing defect that allowed metal shavings to get into the crank bearings and was frying engines at a fairly young age. Toyota has a program set up to replace these engines, much like the Tacoma frame rust recall.

I take those free calendars from drugstores and got this one while buying sundries in Montreal and I just flipped forward to see this incredible view of Centre-Ville Montreal taken from the St. Lawrence River. What can I say? One of those places that fits like a glove instead of a mitt, which rhymes with, "If it does not fit, you must acquit."

Sadly, I think both are bad and good, really depends on where you are going and the people as I have had both ends of the experience spectrum with these two services.

I'm on some AirBnB host facebook groups and it is really location dependent. If you host Airbnb or Turo in an area that gets a lot of international/canada vistors, you're down. If you host in an area that gets a lot of domestic travel (think Smokey Mountains, Interior of the country), you're not seeing a change. That said, Turo is screwing it's hosts lately and a lot are leaving the platform.

You're correct, it's the V6. I was thinking Tacoma and got my engines mixed up. The Crosstrek doesn't offer one, but generally with Subaru, you want the turbo models for reliability. The non-turbos aren't bad, but they've had head gasket issues some 10 years ago. I don't know if those are resolved or not.

I thought the V6 turbo iForce-Max had issues, too? Or maybe when I heard iForce-Max I just assumed it was the V6, but I thought it was a Tundra-thing.

My youngest daughters boyfriend actually works in automotive and aerospace metallurgical testing. Kia is not doing a good job with internal quality control. This is from a number of sources, not just this gentleman. Many mechanics and other industry insiders would concur. Automotive jobs are being shipped to China, and Detroit is being iced out in terms of production.

Interesting observations and reading. I always thought of Kia and Hyundai as Toyota-grade in terms of reliability when it came to their long-term ICE models. Right now, I have a KIA with an ICE as a rental. I like putting around in it. I was reading about the brand and its reliability. It gave a list of their last 10 years of car models, and the accompanying engines, that might give you headaches. The list was peppered with way too many models, and the verbiage often mentioned "engine failure." I was shaking my head as to why this would be the case with simple in-line 4 bangers. Toyota 4 bangers, Ford 4.6 V8s, and Olds Rocket V8s rarely fail. I'm at a loss.

I’m in favor of traffic circles because they actually improve traffic flow and you can get through them faster. I’m talking about aggressive “smart traffic lights”, speed humps on major neighborhood arteries, and artificially slow speed limits that don’t get enforced so you end up having a mismatch of people who obey the speed limit and people who drive the natural traffic flow speed limit. For example, there’s a road near me that is 50 miles an hour for most of its length but then it drops down to 35 miles an hour even though the road itself doesn’t change. The speed limit was dropped because people in town complained. But the speed limit isn’t enforced so now you have some people who do the speed limit of 35 and other people still trying to do 50. This is a fairly large road and 50 is entirely appropriate for it. With smart lights, they are able to detect how quickly the traffic gets from one light to the next, and if the traffic light feels the traffic is moving too fast, they start turning red more often to slow the traffic down. All that does is aggravate people, and then people speed more than if they could just pass through a few green lights. At their worst, the lights will only let three or four cars through even if a bunch of cars are backed up behind and then change very quickly back to red again