A "Rational" Reason To Hate Toyota

Usually when a Toyboy bites back against someone flaming or trolling Toyota, the word irrational comes up a lot.  Toyboys generally assume that people hating on Toyota just hate Toyota because it is successful and they feel threatened by it.  That is not the case for me.  I used to kinda like Toyota, they made some good products.  Sure their products weren't as precise as Mazda or as fast as Nissan, but they were good products regardless.  The MR2, Supra, Celica, 4Runner and so on were all considered real contenders in their genre.  The key word being "were".  Three of the products I listed above don't even exist anymore and the 4Runner has gone from being an off-road contender to a mall cruiser.  I know what you're thinking: where am I going with this?

There are many times in life where an incredibly talented person becomes hated because they "squander" their talent.  Terrell Owens comes to mind.  He's an incredibly talented football player but is really arrogant and therefore doesn't use his talents to their fullest.  This is Toyota.  Here we have a company that we know is able to produce some really terrific vehicles and yet they pump out Camrys, Corollas and the entire Lexus division.  When it comes time for them to actually produce a sports car and we start thinking next generation Celica, they don't even build it, they just slap a body and fuel injection on someone else's product.  But it's not just that, it's the fact that when Toyota or Lexus actually build something special, it's completely unattainable.  Look at the IS-F, it currently starts at $61,000.  Even if I adjust the very last Supra Turbo for inflation it doesn't even come in that high and the last Supra Turbo was considered ridiculously overpriced.  Sadder still is that the Supra Turbo only had marginally less horsepower despite being from a decade and a half ago and was considerably more aftermarket friendly.  As much flak as the Supra catches for being overpriced, one would think that the Toyboys would realize that the current performance products from Lexus are overpriced beyond that.  But then, that would require them to use some logic. 

Then there's the MR2.  Sure it got turned into Hello Kitty's ride in its last generation but before that it was a legitimate mid-engined sports car for the masses.  Toyota even built their own turbocharger for the vehicle.  Fitted with the 3S-GTE, the last MR2 Turbo made in 1995 only made a modest 200 horsepower, but like any vehicle with a turbocharger, that could be changed easily.  But it's real draw was it's engine configuration and its sharp looks.  It was the poor man's Ferrari.  It wasn't really cheap, in fact it was pretty darned expensive with a turbo model being more expensive than the base Supra, but it performed.  Quarter mile times were around 14.7 stock and MR2s can be found on the Internets running 10 second quarters.  Fast forward to today and Toyota has the FR-BR-GT-POS-S-Z-86 which is 17 years newer so it should be performing 17 years better!  Oops, heavier.  Oops, slower.  Oops, not even built by fucking Toyota.

And don't even get me started on the LFA...  Lexus essentially built a very large musical instrument.  When equally sterile Volkswagen decided to tell their engineers to go crazy we ended up with the Veyron within 5 years.  Toyota tells their engineers to go crazy and we get the LF-A within 10 years.  How wrong is that?  Toyota took twice as long to build a vehicle half as good, no wonder Volkswagen is raeping them in worldwide sales now.  I hear the excuses, "But it was Lexus' first supercar."  Cry moar!  Ferrari's first road car won the Grand Prix of Rome, u mad?  Then they send their large trumpet out to have sex with various road courses where people haven't officially run their cars for decades and say "look bettar!"  Nope, not bettar because then the messanic LFA ran at the Nurburgring in it's special trim and was the fastest on the Nurburgring for like 5 seconds before getting violated by a uncivilized American junkbox with a truck engine.  I swear they were waiting to run that Viper at the Nurburgring until specifically after the LFA ran just to troll Toyota.  After all that fapping, all the humping from the engineers and the fanboys, the LFA couldn't even beat a Viper.  The collective dick of the Toyboys went flaccid as they realized that the LFA was only good for revving in the driveway because leaving the driveway meant getting destroyed by a huge number of vastly cheaper vehicles.  But old Toyota never built such a thing as the LFA so old Toyota loses right?  NOPE!  Why did Toyota feel like they had to build the LFA?  To prove something, to show off.  Why did old Toyota not build a supercar?  Because they had nothing to prove.  The regular old Supra Turbo was incredible all by itself.  In the end, the LFA is a Dressage horse.  Well bred, massively expensive but trained to dance because it can't run.

I suppose that it makes sense that a post like this would culminate in a paragraph about how lame the LFA is but you know what is even more lame?  The fact that three paragraphs is all it takes to talk about every single sporty Toyota in production at this time.  Most of all, it's a perfectly rational reason to hate Toyota.  They are quandering their talent that they've proven that they have by seeking profit before success.  But then if you measure your success only by profit and sales, what can you expect?