yelled at for driving toyota

So thats not nessacarily wrong? lol mine was made in mexico thats all i know.

 

Mine too

 

Ok...you guys are all killing me with where your trucks are made so I just went to look at mine and it said made in USA........yay! (I Think!)

 

During my research to buy a tacoma I stumbled upon an article about the TMMBC plant (Toyota Motors Manufacturing de Baja California) that currently assembles all DC Tacomas and all Tacoma beds. It showed an average worker's hurly wage at an auto/parts manufacturing facility from three countries (This is from my memory, I cant find the article now, so take it with a grain of salt):

America: $13.50
Mexico: $4.70
China: $.04

So you can see why a CEO would consider moving the manufacturing around. I'm not condoning it, just pointing out the fact that the world economy is not as equalized as some short minded people (HICKS) might think.

 

Yours was made in your garage.

 

WEWT! HECHO EN CALIFORNIA!

Than RE-ECHO en Louisiana!

Errr... This is in the 2nd gen section... I'll be going now...

 

I had a guy come into my work (before the Army life) and started that argument over a pair of shoes. He asked me pointing to the "made in Taiwan" label and said "what do you think about that". I told him "America is driven by capitalism, so if this company chooses to manufacture their shoes in another country then so be it". His wife nodded in agreement, and he turns back to me and says "Oh yeah? So I bet you drive a foreign vehicle don't you?" I came back with "while that is irrelevant to shoes, yes, I do, a Toyota Tacoma, which just so happened to be built by hard working Americans in Texas. As a capitalistic society we also welcome foreign companies to employ our citizens to make their products that they know we will buy. It's the natural order of a stable business." His wife was in shock by the answer and had to hold back laughing at her husband's blatant dislike toward my response. He then looked at the shoes, then looked at me and says "well I drive a Ford F-150, an American truck, so you can take your Jap shoes, and wear them while you drive your Jap truck." As he got up to leave I quickly said "sorry you feel that way sir, enjoy driving your truck with the data plate that says 'Hache in Mexico'." He reported me to my boss, who then laughed at him and told him he started the wrong argument, with the wrong guy, and then kicked him out

fuck the haters. the end.

 

Now that is funny!!

 

I enjoyed that build thread. It's nice to see one on here once in a while that involves more than painting the badges black and adding window tint.

 

I feel the same way but the sad part is that I did tint the windows and almost considered the badge thing! Wish there was a way for someone to send me a slap via TW!

And thanks for the compliment.....I actually respect everything you write so I appreciate the opinion.

 

Priceless!

 

Done.

'Preciate it. Some of us actually try...well, sometimes...well, sometimes, when I'm in the mood, and not too full from dinner...and there's no football on TV.

 

Amurica!!!!!

 

i like to "buy american" whenever i can, ..for many "goods", furniture, novelties, tools, etc. i feel the american-made stuff is better quality ... i have no reservations about my new tacoma, ..it was built in TX, which is also a right-to-work state

 

I've never heard anything bad from Harley guys. Maybe a little light hearted ribbing between us.

One guy at my work had a Harley he bought in 1997 but only had about 7000 miles on it (in 2004). I had recently come back from a trip I made to Michigan and joked that I put more miles on my bike in 11 days than he has the entire time he's owned his.

 

I often jabbed at my friends who owned Harleys. I swore to myelf I'd never own one and clowned with them about reliability issues versus the metric bikes. I'm eating my words now. I wave to ALL riders on 2 wheels. I did when I rode a Sportbike and even waved at scooter riders.

 

I know it says what country the trucks were made on the door, but where did you guys find out what state/city yours were made in? Is it coded into the VIN number?

95% of my time on the road is riding a bicycle in the city, I don't even notice people yelling or honking at me. Someone yelling something at my in my truck wouldn't even register. I also happen to be one of the slowest drivers, so I would just assume any 'jap truck' comments would be misplaced rage over being stuck behind the one person in this city who isn't in a rush to kill somebody with their vehicle.

I looked at all the american trucks when I started shopping around, and they just didn't have what I needed, simple as that. I live in the city so I wanted a small/midsized truck, I have two 70lb dogs so I needed a back seat area to hold them comfortably, and I bought a truck to haul motorcycles so I wanted a 6 foot bed. Every other compact truck with a full size bed had a much smaller rear seat area, and my 06 flip forward rear seats are just an epically amazing dog setup. Otherwise I would've considered something like a chevy S10, but my dogs would just give me a stupid look if I tried to have them squeeze into that back seat.

 

The harley guys are my favorite too. Any time any of them start talking about their harley I turn it into a super high paced conversation about their harley t shirt and their harley dish towels and their harley underwear, harley cell phone case, harley toilet paper rolls. You can literally throw "harley" in front of any noun and I guarantee it exists in real life, but yes, it's an american name, and unfortunately american 1930's technology to go with it, but if that's what you wanted to spend you $26k on, that's cool with me. I used to have a Buell, awesome bike, but Harley canned them anyway so what do they know.

 

i listen to the same bullshit from my LPO everyday.. when he has a flat top hair cut a cop-stasche and drives a t-top camaro from the early 90s

 

My Old boss just saw my Tacoma for the first time and said "why the hell didn't you buy american!?!?!" .. I just giggled and said "hey where is your new Jeep Grand Cherokee you just bought?"

His response "In the shop again getting fixed". As he kinda tilted his head down and kicked a rock away.

So, after sitting down and busting his balls for about 30 min, he's had his 2011 Cherokee for almost the same amount of time I've had my Tacoma. (Nov 10th, I got my Truck Nov 5th). He has had it in the shop 5 times now, all different reasons (dome light won't turn on, GPS doesn't work, Headlights adjusting wrong, Air ride stuck on 'sport' mode, my fav "passenger heater comes on at 100% and will not shut off regardless of what you do).

So yeah, I'll stick to my Jap crap or whatever people call it. At least I get to drive it daily where I want instead of the dealership for repairs all the time.