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Sandlefoot
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Here is one for you David K
You have probably already seen this but.... Here it is for everyone else.
http://autos.aol.com/article/toyota-to-tow-space-shuttle-to-...
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" Don't find fault, find a remedy; anyone can complain." Henry Ford
If you are not living on the edge...you are taking up to much space!
Just because it may not be a good idea does not mean it will not be fun!!!
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David K
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No surprise! Thanks.
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bajadogs
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Jeez. With all the Fed cutbacks I guess NASA couldn't get a Dodge Cummins with SERIOUS towing capacity. Must be a marketing thing. Cute gimmick
though. Cute truck.
DK, Why are you never on OFF-TOPIC, while so often you're off-topic?
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David K
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So often? Really? Do you read my Baja posts here?
I don't go to off topic because for me, Baja is a place to be happy... and to go to a Baja forum and debate politics or what-ever goes on in off topic
seems like being counter-productive...
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TMW
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While I don't have a problem with a Tundra pulling it I think a Ford truck would have been more fitting. No I'm not a Ford guy either. But all
considered the Tundra is built in Texas and the Johnson Space Center is in Texas too so I guess they go together.
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David K
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Of all full size pickups sold here, ever wonder which one has more "American parts and labor' in it... ?
Ford/Lincoln, Chevy/GMC, Dodge-Ram, Toyota Tundra, Nissan Titan?
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comitan
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| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
So often? Really? Do you read my Baja posts here?
I don't go to off topic because for me, Baja is a place to be happy... and to go to a Baja forum and debate politics or what-ever goes on in off topic
seems like being counter-productive... |
DK are you related to Romney.
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Lord, Keep your arm around my shoulder and your hand over my mouth.
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MMc
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I like Baja!
The profit that Toyota make's sure don't stay here.Yes I now I can buy there stock in Japan. I'm sure they will make a Commercial with it and
everybody will jump up and down saying mines better.
I love how we defend our rationalization of the things we do.
"Never teach a pig to sing it frustrates you and annoys the pig" - W.C.Fields
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David K
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Actually most of it does. My Tacoma was made in Baja so it also helps the people of Baja. I think we are talking about the American made Tundra,
however.
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Wally
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| Quote: | Originally posted by TW
While I don't have a problem with a Tundra pulling it I think a Ford truck would have been more fitting. No I'm not a Ford guy either. But all
considered the Tundra is built in Texas and the Johnson Space Center is in Texas too so I guess they go together. |
If the Ford Motor Corp had been a financial supporter of the CSC I'm sure they could have had a shot. But they aren't, so they didn't.
Brilliant Marketing!
http://www.toyota.com/tundraendeavour/#landing
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Sandlefoot
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Okay....Lets "assume" it will tow the cargo. What will happen to the truck if it has to STOP the cargo? Think David and Goliath..
" Don't find fault, find a remedy; anyone can complain." Henry Ford
If you are not living on the edge...you are taking up to much space!
Just because it may not be a good idea does not mean it will not be fun!!!
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David K
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| Quote: | Originally posted by whistler
Toyota did not need a government bail-out like Chrysler and GM.That's why this year I bought a Ford.They didn't take the bail-out either.
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Good for you! I do believe that Toyota and Ford are the top vehicles owned by Baja Nomads... with Dodge and Jeep next.
Speaking of Jeep (Chrysler)... Now that they were neutered and became a Fiat owned company... have you seen what they are doing to the Jeep models?
Sad... Here is what the new Jeeps, including a new Grand Wagoneer will look like when re-introduced ?
Big Changes in Store for Jeep
Brand to revive Grand Wagoneer, share Fiat platforms
more...
The 2014 Jeep Liberty will bring the debut of Chrysler’s all-new 9-speed automatic transmission, here paired with a 3.2-liter V-6. “If I have my
way,” Marchionne told TheDetroitBureau.com, “you’ll see that transmission on all our front-drive products.”
The smaller Fiat SUSW platform will be used as the foundation for a new subcompact Jeep, meanwhile, and shared with a new crossover coming to the
Italian maker’s line-up. According to a report in Automotive News, the new Jeep model will be assembled in Turin, Italy and shipped to the U.S.
beginning in the second quarter of 2014.
That's right, Jeep (the best known true-American vehicle) won't be built anywhere in North America (The Wrangler has been built in Canada for years).
The entire article is here: http://www.thedetroitbureau.com/2012/09/big-changes-in-store...
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vgabndo
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Since you asked...According to ABC News research for the cars sold in the USA with the fewest American Made parts:
10. Toyota - 4Runner, FJ Cruiser, Highlander HV, Scion iQ, Land Cruiser, Prius, Yaris H/B, Yaris S/D: 0% Made in US
Of the Dodge vehicles listed (my truck wasn't) they were 80, 82, 83, and 84% made in the USA.
I don't know what these numbers would have looked like if we had allowed the 1% to destroy the American automotive industry too.
Undoubtedly, there are people who cannot afford to give the anchor of sanity even the slightest tug. Sam Harris
"The situation is far too dire for pessimism."
Bill Kauth
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PEACE, LOVE AND FISH TACOS
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vgabndo
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"Of course, there's no chance that the Obama administration will sell off its GM stake before Election Day. That would force Obama to recognize actual
losses, which would remind voters that the bailout was a massive transfer from taxpayers to unions."
Sounded like straight Republican double talk so I looked up your source. Been on the GOP payroll for years. Laura Bush's press secretary! Highly
qualified, non-partisan source for information about the auto industry.. NOT!!!
http://www.salon.com/2010/06/28/la_times_blogger_gop_flack/
incidentally TARP, the bailout that conservatives seem to have so much trouble with, was created by the Republicans and made policy in 2008 during the
GW Bush regime. (Bush is the guy that no Republicans voted for, and that they didn't even invite to their convention to help get the next one
percenter elected.
Not Chaney, not Rove, not Limbaugh either. Curious.
Unlike the GOP, who seem to commonly try to scrap everything done by the previous administration, (See: Healthcare reform) the Dems saw that the
damage that had been done to our economy by the last 8 years REQUIRED the TARP tourniquet. And rather than waste time coming up with another form of
rescue for the one percent, (one including long prison terms and a few summary executions?) they plugged in the REPUBLICAN BAILOUT.
Less some political zingers I can't resist, I believe those facts to be incontrovertible.
And, GM paid back the LOAN, they haven't bought back all the stock We the People still own with apparently no control over the big person.
(Corporation)
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Undoubtedly, there are people who cannot afford to give the anchor of sanity even the slightest tug. Sam Harris
"The situation is far too dire for pessimism."
Bill Kauth
Carl Sagan said, "We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
PEACE, LOVE AND FISH TACOS
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comitan
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| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
So often? Really? Do you read my Baja posts here?
I don't go to off topic because for me, Baja is a place to be happy... and to go to a Baja forum and debate politics or what-ever goes on in off topic
seems like being counter-productive... |
Looks like you just answered the question. 
Strive For The Ideal, But Deal With What\'s Real.
Every day is a new day, better than the day before.(from some song)
Lord, Keep your arm around my shoulder and your hand over my mouth.
“The sincere pursuit of truth requires you to entertain the possibility that everything you believe to be true may in fact be false”
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David K
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| Quote: | Originally posted by vgabndo
Since you asked...According to ABC News research for the cars sold in the USA with the fewest American Made parts:
10. Toyota - 4Runner, FJ Cruiser, Highlander HV, Scion iQ, Land Cruiser, Prius, Yaris H/B, Yaris S/D: 0% Made in US
Of the Dodge vehicles listed (my truck wasn't) they were 80, 82, 83, and 84% made in the USA.
I don't know what these numbers would have looked like if we had allowed the 1% to destroy the American automotive industry too.
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Perry, this conversation was about TRUCKS, and specifically the American made Tundra... so this ABC (if even true) reply doesn't fit: 10. Toyota -
4Runner, FJ Cruiser, Highlander HV, Scion iQ, Land Cruiser, Prius, Yaris H/B, Yaris S/D: 0% Made in US
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vgabndo
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With all due respect David. I judge that you commonly launch indefensible political zingers, then , as now, claim to be above it all. I'm not. I'll
admit it.
Doug does a fine job of keeping me in line. I don't always like it, but I probably deserve it.
Undoubtedly, there are people who cannot afford to give the anchor of sanity even the slightest tug. Sam Harris
"The situation is far too dire for pessimism."
Bill Kauth
Carl Sagan said, "We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
PEACE, LOVE AND FISH TACOS
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comitan
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DK
Why is the stock market doing so well with Obama president . Ok just to make you happy I'm not that happy with Obama and there are many more of us the
same feeling, it just comes down to the lesser evil.
Strive For The Ideal, But Deal With What\'s Real.
Every day is a new day, better than the day before.(from some song)
Lord, Keep your arm around my shoulder and your hand over my mouth.
“The sincere pursuit of truth requires you to entertain the possibility that everything you believe to be true may in fact be false”
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"the lesser of two weevil's" see now that counts cause it was filmed down here.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
Zingers??? Oh, you mean 'facts'??? Yes, I guess they would be called zingers by viewers and believers of MSNBC, CNN, ABC, etc.
If Obama was a Republican, they would never be hiding all the BS that has been produced by this administration.
Remember when Dan Quayle misspelled POTATO by adding an E? We never heard the end of it... But Joe Biden can say JOBS is a 'three letter word', and
nothing... Even worse, the Commander-in-Chief doesn't know how to say CORPSMAN (silent p, as in Marine Corps) when honoring one, he said 'corpse man'
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I like that you use question marks after your facts, DK. Very appropriate for you.
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