Featured Toyota Wants To Upgrade Your Old Car Instead Of Selling You A New One

Reflecting on my own experience, if the 2017 version of TSSP had not been so bad, I might not have been captured by my 2019 Tesla Model 3. That was my third Prius, one of two new Prius that I’d bought.

Now just idle speculation after two BMW i3-REx and 183,000 miles in the Model 3. A shame to lose +3,000 lbs of Prius due to weak control software. I bear no animosity to Toyota but a road not taken.

Bob Wilson

 

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At $300 just for a map software update, how much is this really going to bring in? And the memory stick the dealer had was corrupted so it took weeks before I had a working updated car. So how much training and stocking will enable this capability?

 

This is coming from the same country that replaces whole engines around 50K miles that gets shipped here for a second life.

This just goes to show you how far out of hand new car prices has gotten.

YMMV

 

do they keep their cars longer in Japan?

 

They put on less miles; since they have a pretty decent public transportation system.

 

In Japan you have to be wealthy or a farmer to keep an old car legally on the road.

their vehicles are generally in much better condition than ours

 

Yep; we've seem to have forgotten that driving is a privilege NOT a right.