badme

Lets not pat Toyota to hard on the back. They never bought back a early truck that had a rusty frame, and everyone in New England had a rusty frame. The only reason they did the buy back was to sell more trucks and bump up the sales figures so they could be #1 in sales. It did not matter that this #1 rank was a fake # or how much it cost Toyota to do it. The only thing they were concerned with was beating out GM as #1 car sales in the world. If they were #3 or 4 in the world they would never have done the buy back.

Jfaulkner

Well I'm not going to say this is true or not I have no idea of knowing this and neither do you unless you work in the upper management of Toyota. However that being said if your the one that just got one of the best deals ever, you don't care how or why they offered this. All you know, or in the case of my friend you got to own a nice truck for 7 years with nothing more than routine PM (tires, oil ect....) and you simply drive it to a dealer and they hand you a check for $700 less than you paid for it 7 yrs earlier. And give you another $1000 off a new truck or $500 off a certified used one. And they give you a rental car until the deal is complete. Now I'd bet if you simply change the name Toyota to Chrysler or Dodge (especially on a brand bias site like this one) the cheerleading would be nonstop. I'm not bashing your post, what you say may be true but if you hand me a check I'll wave whatever flag you want.

badme

I was just saying that if they were #3 or #4 in the world this would not have happened. They never bought back a truck before. The deal is great and you are right. who would not love a deal like that. Ford and Chrysler would never offer a deal like that unless they were #2 in the world and want to be #1 no matter what the cost is. If this was not true then where was Toyota in the 70's, 80's,and 90's? All those trucks had rusty frames.