Tortured Toyota
| Peters
Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 3034 Northern AL
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2006-01-14 122766
For those of you with out BBC's TopGear. The attempted destruction of a Toyota Tacoma Diesel is a hoot. It shows how tough the little trucks are. It is downloadable here. It is unfortunate we don't get the diesel model in the US
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Tortured Toyota
| kwschumm
Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 5764 NW Oregon
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2006-01-14 122769
A search of our DISH guide didn't turn up Topgear on BBC, but I'd like to see it. I'll be buying a new truck this year and with gas prices just can't justify a full size for the few times I'd need it, so I've pretty much decided to get a Tacoma. A diesel would make the decision easy. ....
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Tortured Toyota
| Peters
Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 3034 Northern AL
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2006-01-14 122770
Ken;
I was Wednesday nights on Discovery last year also. The segment on the Toyota was three episodes but in one long production on the web. Check the race of the Jaguar on the aircraft carrier. ....
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Tortured Toyota
| kwschumm
Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 5764 NW Oregon
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2006-01-14 122771
Video downloads are a problem here since we're on a very slow dial-up. I'll save the link for my next stop at a WiFi hotspot. ....
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Tortured Toyota
| Peters
Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 3034 Northern AL
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2006-01-22 123240
Ken did you manage to watch this? ....
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Tortured Toyota
| kwschumm
Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 5764 NW Oregon
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2006-01-22 123245
No, I tried to download it and it is showing up with a filetype of "ram", whatever that is. The downloaded file is only 42 bytes. ....
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Tortured Toyota
| Peters
Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 3034 Northern AL
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2006-01-28 123689
Top Gear is now on the science channel at 7:00 CT Saturday. How many people recognised the beach commerical sequence in the Super Bowl Toyota copied the test done on TopGear. ....
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