Toyota pledges $10B toward new auto plants
in US: ‘Go out and buy a Toyota,’
Trump says
New York Post,
by
Steven Nelson
Original Article
Posted By: ConservativeYankee,
10/28/2025 9:14:05 AM
TOKYO — President Trump announced Toyota has promised $10 billion in investments toward new manufacturing plants in the US — urging people to “go out and buy a Toyota” in a wide-ranging speech to sailors aboard the USS George Washington Tuesday in Tokyo Bay.
Trump, who is making trade and economic deals a top goal of his three-nation regional tour, said that Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi told him earlier in the day that the world’s largest car company would pour funds into American manufacturing plants.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
joew9 10/28/2025 9:21:25 AM (No. 2022594)
OK I will. But only if you stop putting in turbos.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
DVC 10/28/2025 11:52:49 AM (No. 2022675)
The problem is that the EPA approved newer ones, like all cars today, have crappy small displacement engines with damned infernal turbochargers to get them up to horsepower, rather than simpler, more durable larger displacement normally aspirated engines.
I refuse to own a turbo car. Until the EPA gas mileage rules are totally dead and buried, auto makers are afraid to go back to normal cars.
They expect that the rules will whipsaw back to 55 miles per gallon fleet average fuel economy, so even with the CAFE fuel mileage standards on hold...automakers aren't producing non turbo normal cars very much, or at all.
A turbocharger is an expensive, factory installed, certain failure. My older 4Runner has a wonderful, smooth, powerful V6 4 liter.
Today you can get a too small 2.4 liter 4 cylinder engine with a turbo or a turbo engine with a hybrid electric disaster.
I REFUSE to own one these super expensive preinstalled failures. No electric, no hybrid, no turbos.
I want a NORMAL car!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 10/28/2025 11:57:40 AM (No. 2022677)
I love my Tacoma. My whole family drives Toyotas. But I agree with #1. I was looking at a new Tacoma, but the new ones have a turbo four-banger instead of a V-6. I drive mine off-road in the mountains; I need torque!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
mc squared 10/28/2025 12:19:19 PM (No. 2022692)
As long as Toyota doesn't staff it will illegals like Hyundai did in Georgia. Make it a part of any foreign company deal that does business here: NO illegals.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
ladydawgfan 10/28/2025 12:24:28 PM (No. 2022694)
I drive a 2017 Corolla and I LOVE it!! My dad drives a 2012 Camry and loves his as well. My first Toyota was a '93 Previa that my brother sold to me. I drove her until she had 342K miles on the odometer. I could have driven her much, much further except that I was living in Vermont at the time, and their new "stick-up-the-arse" inspection rules meant that every little hole, crack or scuff in the body had to be repaired completely (no Bondo) to pass inspection. The repairs on my beloved van would have cost upwards of $10k, much more than I could afford at the time. Otherwise, I have no doubt I would still be driving her. You can't kill a Toyota unless you try to teach it to swim (or move to a commie state like Vermont!).
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Strike3 10/28/2025 12:47:27 PM (No. 2022707)
We drive nothing but Toyotas. My 2008 Highlander just turned 175K and runs flawlessly, I hope American car workers don't screw them up.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 10/28/2025 12:56:18 PM (No. 2022712)
Same as #6. 2012 Camry and 2016 Sienna van. One made in Kentucky and one in Tennessee. Medium mileage, never a serious problem. Anniversary (55 years) coming up, and I am thinking about a new Toyota van as present for wife, but I don't want a turbo. Maybe I can snag a normal one while I still can?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
OkieTom 10/28/2025 1:14:33 PM (No. 2022714)
Drive a 2009 Tundra with over 200k miles. Still runs great and hope to have it for another 5 years.
Wife has a 2012 Highlander around 150k. Very good vehicles with minimal issues.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
preciosodrogas 10/28/2025 3:23:42 PM (No. 2022776)
I have a 2000 Ford Exp with over 250kk. Still running, still gets used a lot. Son has 2006, his work car with over 230k. He keeps it going. wants to keep for two more years so. Both have the small V8. Both are gas hogs.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Heil Liberals 10/28/2025 4:39:09 PM (No. 2022798)
I will if Toyota abandons their horrific foray into turbocharged engines and go back to their reliable inline 4s and V-6s. Until then, no thank you.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
franq 10/28/2025 4:40:22 PM (No. 2022799)
I have seen mechanics call the turbo a "hand grenade under the hood." I would never knowingly purchase one.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Venturer 10/28/2025 5:18:00 PM (No. 2022813)
I haven't bought anything but Toyota automobiles for years, My first was a used Camry that gave me 250,000 trouble free miles the 2nd. a Venza that got wrecked and now a Rav 4. I told my daughter to buy a Toyota after she had problems with other makes and since her first one she has bought nothing else. They were purchased because they are the best and most trouble free automobiles on the market.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
PChristopher 10/28/2025 7:53:28 PM (No. 2022853)
My Camry is closing in on 20 years old.... They're a good buy. :-)
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 10/29/2025 5:23:19 AM (No. 2022958)
I'm admit that I'm a Honda sort of guy, but I must say that a recent motorsport article published showed that the top 20 car models for holding their "resale value" were dominated by Toyota. Hats off to the Japanese for once again teaching our sick U.S. auto industry how it's done. Perhaps the executives of our, "Big Three," err, make that, "Big Two" now, need to go on a "Samurai diet," foregoing their massive salaries and especially their "bonus" programs, which are granted to executives for accomplishing silly, useless things of their own making, which otherwise do nothing to advance shareholder value.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 10/29/2025 6:16:04 AM (No. 2022971)
I have owned a Toyota for the last 30 years and will NEVER regret it. They are built to last.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Catfur27 10/29/2025 7:59:40 AM (No. 2023035)
...I want to "buy American"...and I have a Chevy Equinox ...that was built in Ontario, Canada.
...my prior car was a Nissan Rogue...that was built in New Jersey .
...so tell me ...WHICH is the "American" car ???
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
smak90 10/29/2025 7:59:51 AM (No. 2023037)
I just bought a used 5th gen 4Runner because I didn't want the current model with the turbo 4 cylinder. Until I see them hitting 500K miles like the 6 and 8 cylinders I won't trust them.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
PrayerWarrior 10/29/2025 11:16:48 AM (No. 2023151)
We have a 2005 Sienna and love it. It is a faithful, wonderful car. It just keeps rolling along.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
nelsonted1 10/29/2025 12:33:30 PM (No. 2023177)
My cousin drove to their dairy barn before work in her Toyota. She handed the paperwork she was delivering to her husband who was standing in the yard. She turned the car around and went down the same road she'd driven on five minutes earlier.
Without warning she drove under a tree that had fallen onto the road! Somehow, she dropped down onto the.console while the tree tried to tear off her roof. She wasn't more than 200 feet from the driveway.
She came out of it without a scratch. While the fire dept was removing the roof she told them she will only drive Toyotas. She drove Toyota for decades after that.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 10/29/2025 1:51:48 PM (No. 2023212)
When the construction of these plants is in progress, I'll start to buy in that it may be true.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Msquared112 10/29/2025 9:02:04 PM (No. 2023375)
If Toyota had a few decent colors and a new sleek Avalon, I’d buy another Toyota.
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