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i like american made stuff too, but i have to disagree with ya…...BASS is 4 everyone and anyone, and a lotta non US people fish and watch and spend money. if a company is doing a good job supporting sport, more power to them. Toyota puts a lotta people to work in USA too. BASS has mostly been a male dominated sport, i like seeing women involved now. i would almost bet more people overseas see the weigh ins via webcast that USA residents.

Something as American as “NASCAR”? Good luck on wishful thinking.

If Toyota Tundra has any type of problems then for solving its problems the company will launch the new version of Toyota Tundra in 2013. It will solve its previous drawbacks and we will see its new features like 310 horse power
  327 pound feet of torque
  4.6 Liter aluminum i-force V8 engine
  Electronic ignition system.

I think I will stay with my Chevy Silverado Z71.  I am just beginning to get it broke in.

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TK - 25 January 2012 12:40 PM

I think I will stay with my Chevy Silverado Z71.  I am just beginning to get it broke in.

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Yup, I’d say she was just about broke in now.

I don’t know a whole lot about these modern trucks, but each seems to have it’s own unique merits as vehicle.  The Ford F-150 is probably the most refined truck out there.  Ford does a lot of the little things right on the 150 but the truck is, IMO, overly heavy do to a needlessly strong frame.  The payload capacity on the Ford is ridiculous.  The Chevrolet 1500 are nice trucks, but the 5.3 is aging and will most likely be replaced within a few years.  I hear the Chevys are lighter weight than the Fords as well but I don’t have any numbers in front of me.  The new Ram 1500 is interesting.  It seems to be aimed more at the daily driver truck market with it’s coil rear suspension.  The Tundra?  I’ve heard mixed things about the truck.  It’s not very refined for starters.  I’ve heard the gauge placement makes reading some of the gauges impossible due to the steering wheel rim blocking line-of-sight.  If they screwed something that simple up then what else?  The Toyota 5.7 engine is a hot rod motor though. 

The safe bets the Ford IMO.  It’s hard or find fault with the trucks other than them being soulless truck appliances.

TorqueConverter - 25 January 2012 11:07 PM

I don’t know a whole lot about these modern trucks, but each seems to have it’s own unique merits as vehicle.  The Ford F-150 is probably the most refined truck out there.  Ford does a lot of the little things right on the 150 but the truck is, IMO, overly heavy do to a needlessly strong frame.  The payload capacity on the Ford is ridiculous.  The Chevrolet 1500 are nice trucks, but the 5.3 is aging and will most likely be replaced within a few years.  I hear the Chevys are lighter weight than the Fords as well but I don’t have any numbers in front of me.  The new Ram 1500 is interesting.  It seems to be aimed more at the daily driver truck market with it’s coil rear suspension.  The Tundra?  I’ve heard mixed things about the truck.  It’s not very refined for starters.  I’ve heard the gauge placement makes reading some of the gauges impossible due to the steering wheel rim blocking line-of-sight.  If they screwed something that simple up then what else?  The Toyota 5.7 engine is a hot rod motor though. 

The safe bets the Ford IMO.  It’s hard or find fault with the trucks other than them being soulless truck appliances.

So you have a Ford truck, I’m guessing. Do you have one with 300,000+ miles with no major repairs?  Mine is a 2004 Chevrolet Silverado Z71 Ext. Cab with the 5.3.  I bought it about 5 years ago with about 26,000 miles.

NASSS71 - 13 March 2008 12:58 PM

Toyota Tundra thoughts.

I think its a shame that something as American As BASS is
“offically” sponsored by a foreign vehicle.

Am I the only one that thinks or would hope for a American Vehicle as a offical sponsor??

If you think about it, it actually makes perfect sense.  Advertising and particularly sponsoring is a means of conveying an idea to a target market.  If you desperately need to make your product seem American and your target audience also happens to be American sportsmen and women it makes sense for Toyota to sponsor BASS.  The big 3 don’t need that advertising, Toyota desperately does.  The Tundra sales aren’t exactly great.  It’s not a bad vehicle.  If I were hypothetically in the market for a truck it’s be between the F-150 Lariat and 5.7 powered Tundra.  It’d be heart vs mind between the two.  The logical and ultimately boring but proven quantity F-150 or the horsepower happy Tundra smile-machine.

TK - 25 January 2012 11:46 PM

TorqueConverter - 25 January 2012 11:07 PM

I don’t know a whole lot about these modern trucks, but each seems to have it’s own unique merits as vehicle.  The Ford F-150 is probably the most refined truck out there.  Ford does a lot of the little things right on the 150 but the truck is, IMO, overly heavy do to a needlessly strong frame.  The payload capacity on the Ford is ridiculous.  The Chevrolet 1500 are nice trucks, but the 5.3 is aging and will most likely be replaced within a few years.  I hear the Chevys are lighter weight than the Fords as well but I don’t have any numbers in front of me.  The new Ram 1500 is interesting.  It seems to be aimed more at the daily driver truck market with it’s coil rear suspension.  The Tundra?  I’ve heard mixed things about the truck.  It’s not very refined for starters.  I’ve heard the gauge placement makes reading some of the gauges impossible due to the steering wheel rim blocking line-of-sight.  If they screwed something that simple up then what else?  The Toyota 5.7 engine is a hot rod motor though. 

The safe bets the Ford IMO.  It’s hard or find fault with the trucks other than them being soulless truck appliances.

So you have a Ford truck, I’m guessing. Do you have one with 300,000+ miles with no major repairs?  Mine is a 2004 Chevrolet Silverado Z71 Ext. Cab with the 5.3.  I bought it about 5 years ago with about 26,000 miles.

Not anymore.  I sold my boat and later truck when my father got his boat.  My truck was F-250 with a hot rod 460 under the hood.  I swaped the motor of it before I sold it and working on putting truck engine into my Lincoln. 

5.3 are good motors and so are the LS series.  My argument against a new GM 1500 would be that the 5.3 is due for replacement soon.  I’d hate to buy one and then a year or two later a new GM engine is launched.  It’s common sense.  It’s like when everybody ran out and bought 2010 mustangs only to find out Ford was offering the 5.0 for 2011.

High mileage vehicles?  Just one, my beater DD Taurus.  That car has 226,XXX with no issues but it’s also just a bean-shaped soulless appliance.  I’ve never driven a truck as a daily driver so mileage has always been low.  Itt’s pretty impressive that you can get to 300,000 in less than 10 years.  Congrats.