5th Gen...Its a Tank...Industructable...according to this guy

[repo]

All he really did was describe the engine and not in any way that actually indicated why the engine is favorable opposed to others. I don’t understand the upvotes.

He explained it clearly. It's the same reason why great white sharks stopped evolving millions of years ago. They already climaxed within their operating environment.

 

[1jzgte]

He explained it clearly. It's the same reason why great white sharks stopped evolving millions of years ago. They already climaxed within their operating environment.

clearly you've never heard of shark-nados

 

[Blue109]

i never understood why anyone holds anyone else's opinion in any regard.....does the truck do what you want/need it to??....outside of that ....who fin cares??

gosh!

 

[CutthroatSlam]

I would hold the guy in the video's opinion in high regard because he's obviously an expert in toyota engines and transmissions. What I want the truck to do is go 300+k with minimal issues, and this guy explains exactly why it can do that.

We are at 255K on our 2014 SR5. I can explain how. Change fluids schedule and don’t use Toyota OEM fluids. Transmission flush at 125K and need to do another using synthetic transmission fluid. Road force balance the damn tires. Change the OEM shocks for Bilstein 5100s. Spark plugs every 125K miles (overdue now). Raybestos advance technology slotted rotors and their top pads. That’s about it.

 

[CutthroatSlam]

Sorry, double post on iPhone exit.

 

[Brick Sprickly]

He explained it clearly. It's the same reason why great white sharks stopped evolving millions of years ago. They already climaxed within their operating environment.

No organism 'stops evolving'.

Anyways, white sharks are actually growing larger.

 

[Glenn Goodlett]

No organism 'stops evolving'.

Anyways, white sharks are actually growing larger.

T-rex stopped evolving.

One could argue that humanity is de-evolving. :focus:

 

[repo]

No organism 'stops evolving'.

Anyways, white sharks are actually growing larger.

You're talking about genetic drift which is only a part of evolution. Organisms only evolve (adapt) when they are exposed to environmental stressors outside their baseline "knowledge" but inside their adaptive capacity. Then the organism on the herd level experiments with drift and the useful stuff gets remembered and the useless stuff gets forgotten. Eventually it reaches an adaptive climax and goes on cruise control until there are novel stressors. No different than how brain synapses, ant colonies or fungal mycelium organize. Stuff absolutely stops evolving no different than if you stopped training an AI with novel input. There's a great book about this called Antifragile, which probably applies to how Toyota engineers these. I want a vehicle that adapts to real-world stressors not marketing stressors.