Drove a Colorado. Nope!

It’s a good interior. The 3rd Gen is a major upgrade. Mainly because they did away with those terrible “faux aluminum” surfaces and controls that looked cheeseballs.

 

I guess Live and Let Die is a suck song. I never knew.

 

Ok. I’ll give you that.

 

Well I had a pretty great time hanging with George thirty years ago when I did this for Guitar Player Magazine. He was super cool and even apologized for smoking cigarettes. Like so many celebs they all seem shorter when you meet them in person. As for hating the Beatles, I suggest going back and listening to what they did with only four tracks and what a sheer genius George Martin was.

 

Not the GNR version.

 

Lucky man.

 

It's easy to criticize the artist. It's hard to criticize the music. At the time it was brilliant and it was long before Yoko and Linda.
I didn't like a bunch of their songs even way back then but some of their songs were sheer art.
Long before autotune, long before computers, just music. Very few bands can pull that off and the ones who could are just dropping like flies (Chris Cornell, etc)

 

You make an excellent point. Everyone, and I mean everyone, is having dead pedal feel, weird shift sequences, etc with every manufacturer - even the 8 and 10 speeds. This is a by product of tuning for economy and not drivability.

The grass is not greener on the other side of the fence. It's brown and dead there as well.

 

As you say, It's just different green grass is all. We are pretty damn lucky to have a place to live where we can bitch about first world problems. Pretty sure health and family beat strange shifting.
I personally am thankful I made it through another year. My life is good. My family is well. I have the freedom and ability to make my own decisions. This stuff we talk about is not important in the greater scheme of things.

 

That's an HS Anderson MadCat Tele copy. They go for about $3000. The Tele was one awesome design. Leo hit a home run with that one.

Not bragging, but my $150 garage sale FrankenTele would sound just as nice--Warmouth neck, GTS paulownia body, SD pickups, GTS whammy bar...

 

OMG I'm jealous! George was an incredible human being and a great artist as well.

I've seen Paul live--the only Beatle I've seen in concert. He was and is great--his latest album is not flawless but so much better than all the other crap that's out there on the radio.

As for "lightweight"--listen to the bassline on Silly Love Songs. That is the work of a master.

If any of you posters don't like the Beatles I will just take your opinion and file it in the circular file.

Back OT thanks for the input on the Colorado. We had an Avalanche which was a bigger truck and a very awesome machine, but not cheap and poor gas mileage. I think 'Merica does big trucks the best, but for smaller size the quality and styling on not on par with Japanese vehicles. And I agree for some reason the Japanese just understand plastic better.

Admittedly, this methodology can be debated, but it is a start: this survey indicates the Tacoma is 60-65% US/Candadian-made, the Colorado 50%.

https://www.american.edu/kogod/research/autoindex/2018-autoindex.cfm

 

One of my co-workers has a 1st Gen Colorado, think it's a 2011. Im not sure if it's even got 100k miles on it but it's falling apart, so he's looking at getting a new or slightly used canyon.

I'm trying to convince him to come to the taco side, but he thinks they're too expensive. I said you get what you pay for

 

Interesting comments, I test drove a 2016 Canyon before the taco and was surprised how the transmission "bucked".

A few times making a right turn, the "door open" alarm sounded, even though the (suicide) door was shut -

And the Beatles...growing up, I had older siblings and inherited some early love of music from.them- Rubber Soul and Revolver are still two of my favorite albums.



After that, I think they were just phoning it in.....lol

 

They make junk, often time they chicken out on warranty too. But not TOYOTA, I had T4R that was over 10 yrs old with 180k miles on the clock and they replaced the entire dash because it developed cracks way after the warranty had expired.

Try that with anyone else and they'll tell you where you can go.

So thank you TOYOTA and Japan, for having such good honest principles and work ethics.

In the mean time




Cheers!

 

Very cool. I recently read his bio "All Things Must Pass" and highly recommend it. I saw his Dark Horse tour with Shankar and thought it was great although the album and tour were panned by the crtics. Leon Russell also made an appearance at the show which was great since he's a local guy.

 

We had the 4 cylinder Colorado as a work truck.

My god the amount of issues we had.
- the interior was cracked and falling apart
- the seat was super saggy although we did have an obese man that drove it
- check engine light always on
- at fleet operations monthly for fixes.

 

I posted a thread about this a couple years ago, I hadn't yet driven a new Colorado and when my old dealership took one in on trade that was only 1 year old with 18k miles I took it out for some seat time... I have pretty low expectations when it comes to chevy products and even so I was SHOCKED at how much of a piece of shit it was after only 1 year.

People bitch about a random buzz or vibration or rattle in the Tacoma's, mine had one around the upper console and had one around the A-pillar, both easily fixed with a little foam. But the chevy... holy hell, it was RATTLE CITY. Way too many rattles to track down and fix you'd have to literally pull apart and rebuilt the entire interior. I laugh when people talk about how nice the chevy interior is they must be smoking some REALLY good shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnE1w0jqulo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCpeSVA4mz4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=49&v=udEhe660-zQ

 

Holy biased review, but this is tacomaworld

Mind you mine is a zr2. All your cons are wrong minus the headlights which aren’t good and there is a fix for the washed out backup camera. The interior is the same if not better, the transmission is half the reason i got rid of my third gen tacoma for this truck as the colorado is much smoother and more power with the 8 speed.

 

No thanks. I will never give GM another penny of my money.