I Am Sitting In The LAST Reliable Toyota!

With all that, I’d rather take my chances with a Toyota/Lexus. Every single manufacturer is having issues.

80% more complexity, plastic, decomposable materials all for 3% more green makes less reliability. Thank you for making everyone aware of the unfortunate state of affairs. Still, toyota is less worse than the others

I bought a 2024 Camry XSE V6 in February for many of the reasons discussed in the video. It has every option except the heated steering wheel (I live in Florida) and the two tone paint (I didn't want extra black on the roof, black + Florida = Hot.) I didn't want a CVT, hybrid system, or turbos so the Camry was pretty much the only game in town for a sedan with a good amount of power. I appreciate that the automakers are doing all of these things to improve fuel economy, but they are compromising on reliability to do so in my opinion and I thinks it hurts the consumer in the long run. My 300 horsepower Camry gets the same gas mileage as the 158 horsepower Mazda 5 it replaced without resorting to gimmicks. That is a great achievement and certainly good enough for me.

THE CAR CARE NUT says the waste gate issue has been resolved. He said don't buy a 22 or 23 Tundra. 24 or newer should be much better. He did a comparison of the 2nd gen vs 3rd gen Tundra and new Tundra has poor paint quality in certain areas. The 5.7 is a simpler engine and probably will out last a TTV6. I am still amazed my 20 Tundra was $51 000 new. It was a relative bargain.

All the manufacturers have been cutting back on costs while increasing the car prices for bigger profits add that with lot of unnecessary technology this is going to lead less reliable cars. With that said, Toyota/Lexus is still better than most.

Frankly Mazda 6, 2.5 Skyactiv-G, naturally aspirated, 6 speed in house built torque converter.

LOL. When you said "wastegate" I rolled my eyes. I *just* had to deal with the wastegate actuator on my 2017 Alfa Giulia getting loose and rattling. Car has 90K trouble-free miles (its actually been so good so far I call it the "Italian Camry"). Well, the reality of modern engines caught up with me; a plastic knob that holds the wastegate arm just wears over time and now it is loose and rattles. Soon it won't move with the precision it is supposed to and the car will detect "underboost" and throw codes. Very common for this engine once the years get on it, and the "fix" is new turbo (even though the turbo itself is fine). If you lease, or keep for maybe 7 / 8 years tops, these 2.0T engines are ok. However you will *never* get the years of trouble free service out of them as you would the 3.5/3.3 V6s or any of the V8s Toyota used to make. They ALL do this with the plastic to keep the weight down ( and the mpg's up). If we could just ban plastic from engine components every brand's reliability scores would go up.

all those 4 cylinder turbos are going to be problematic...

It’s also increasing insurance premiums because these things cost a kings ransom to fix or replace too in the case of a crash

That touch-screen looks tacky, like it was just velcroed onto the dash as in many late model vehicles. It's all about the stupid screens, not the fundamentals that make a good car, and one that's safe to operate its controls without causing a major collision.