re: Forbes leaks 4Runner debut 12 hours early

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but any design with an electronic actuator operating the turbo waste gate is destined to be problematic. There's just too much heat right there for electronics to manage that.

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Look under the hood of the new Tundra. Anyone accustomed to Toyotas or most domestic gasoline pickup trucks would get really nervous about what they see there. Plastic hose connectors, a fairly short twin turbo motor that is pushed way back into the firewall for some reason, spark plugs on the back two cylinders that are extremely difficult to reach with normal tools, and an even bigger spaghetti maze of coolant lines than most new vehicles.

I don't know if it was because their design process was truncated by the pandemic, but Toyota built that new Tundra in a way that will make it very labor intensive to repair as it ages.

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I like that it doesn't have an electronic waste gate actuator like the Tundra

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That's encouraging. I guess even Toyota knows that they screwed up the Tundra if they have corrected the turbo design for other models.

They should not be making things more complicated than they absolutely have to be.