John8
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I don't drive the retail value, I drive the car. :^) But I keep a car for a long time and realize some don't. So don't buy a car the 1st year.
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I signed it but not a whiny baby, just in the morning. lol I enjoy mine and don't really care but if something were to happen, at least I did something. Investment? That would be very, very poor reasoning. My FJ Cruiser, turned out to be more of that, loosing almost no value but I didn't buy it for that, it was just luck I guess and after 8 years, no issues at all. Anyway, enjoying the hell out of the 2020!
Nail on the headLol, this thread is something else. I remember reading posts way back when I just wanted this car to come out (2015-2016). Everybody was anticipating this car and Toyota did what they had to do in order to get this car out to the market. After the reveals started happening, I remember reading/hearing that Toyota "Took too long" to get this car out in the market. Now I'm hearing that Toyota should've waited another year to put in the B58D....
Just goes to show you're screwed if you do and screwed if you don't Just be glad Toyota is bringing sports cars into a market that is shifting towards EVs and self-driving cars.
Yes, I change the fluids more often than required, all of them, and have good results.Lol my FJ has 315k miles on it and going strong!
CCP and transparency don't belong in the same universe, let alone the same sentence. Also, their idea of containment is pretty much a sick joke and when you do contract the illness, they throw you into a lockbox on the back of a pickup truck (not an ambulance) and take you to a lockdown facility where you will likely die later on. They then truck the bodies down to a crematoria that's going 24/7, every single day.between improved transparency and emerging treatments (and better containment) the Chinese will be OK - whatever you think about their government
Totally agree... although if things continue progressing as they have, they're not going to have much of a choice. My hope on the transparency side mostly comes from non-governmental sources which are now more directly involved... I'm not naive enough to expect anything from the CCP itself.CCP and transparency don't belong in the same universe, let alone the same sentence. Also, their idea of containment is pretty much a sick joke and when you do contract the illness, they throw you into a lockbox on the back of a pickup truck (not an ambulance) and take you to a lockdown facility where you will likely die later on. They then truck the bodies down to a crematoria that's going 24/7, every single day.
The amount of people infected/dying over there is so underreported it's insane, but they don't want the world to know the truth and they've paid off the WHO and kicked out anyone actually looking to find out. This is only the beginning IMO
So yeah, I can totally see it disrupting production as GM has already started warning of it affecting them.
Even if every last piece of the Supra was made outside of China, if things in China (ignoring spread outside of China) continue to tumble, don’t expect many 2021s. Everyone will buying from the same extremely diminished and extremely valuable supply. Only a handful of the wrong pieces being unavailable will prevent delivery. Once the BOM cost exceed a set point, they will shut down production as the finished good won’t be viable to sell at elevated BOM cost.Does anyone know how China-dependent the production is? Obviously I'm talking mostly about raw materials and electronic components - the actual assembly isn't dependent at all I would assume. GM is already warning of COVID-19 related shortages causing major disruptions in their manufacturing and assembly lines... just wondering if potentially we could be looking at the same thing (short term at least) with the MY21's.
I hope between improved transparency and emerging treatments (and better containment) the Chinese will be OK - whatever you think about their government, they're a wonderful people and are living a nightmare currently. However, even if everything was back to normal in a week - which definitely isn't the case - manufacturing is going to be bumpy for at least the rest of this year.
We can only hope and honestly maybe it needs to get bad before they finally let others in to handle things properly, but I wish it wasn't that way.Totally agree... although if things continue progressing as they have, they're not going to have much of a choice. My hope on the transparency side mostly comes from non-governmental sources which are now more directly involved... I'm not naive enough to expect anything from the CCP itself.
It normally takes at least 2 years to get a vaccine to market.I hope they find a vaccine soon. Spoke to a cdc employee at work the other day and she said they been working non stop...