1st Gen Lunchtable Thread - General Discussion

yeah nearly the same

 

Thank you all for the quick responses.

 

It drives as you’d expect a turbo 4 to.

 

Why would they just throw them out instead of selling them? There must be so much demand with all the mini trucks out there. I didn’t think OEMs were in the business of throwing money away..

 

corporations do stupid shit all the time. the amount of food that goes into trash and other stuff like computers/monitors etc that go into the shredder would amaze you

 

I watched the African Cup final yesterday between Cote D’Ivoire and Nigeria. The football game was good too though.

 

Yea I mean it would’ve been easier to just sell them wholesale to a rebuilder or something. I also wonder why they don’t keep making the Tacoma frames with all the confusing demand from the salt belt.

 

Cause it's easier to sell a new truck

 

they want all these 80s and 90s Pickup owners to finally buy something new

 

To be fair...its a lot easier to throw something away than sell it, or do just about anything else with it. Trashing something is a pretty low effort activity.

 

Idk, it doesn’t seem like sound business practice to me. Rebuilders like Yota1 can barely keep up with demand. I bet they would’ve sold in a week if they’d listed them. Besides, they’re engines, not tomatoes. It’s not like they had an expiration date.

 

Well I was surprised when he said that. Usually Toyota is the best OEM at supporting their older stuff, especially the trucks since so many people still use them overseas.

 

@eon_blue this you?

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Tax write off. Inventory space.

costs money to store stuff. When statistics show a lot of those trucks are gone by then. Well this happe s

 

If that was a corporate decision you can bet someone did the math on profit margins between trashing versus selling them separately or how long they'd need to keep them in inventory for it to be profitable.
Besides, it wasn't like they were just going to list them on Craigslist.
I think its a bummer too, but I'm not under the impression that any manufacturer is going to just do something for the good of it and because people like old trucks.

 

I mean even the Army throws away rifles when they were deploying in and out the country

 

shit I remember reading about all the stuff the military just dumped into the ocean after WWII ended, not to mention all the planes that were unfortunately scrapped.

 

All the batteries

 

Yep

Sooooo much $$$

I did get a couple of Surefire flashlights I got to keep including one that was issued and deployed with me

Fuckers are $300+ each, has the NSN on it too