Tattoo Artist Corey Miller Will Customize 2014 Toyota Tundra

The 2014 Raybestos Rattlesnake Toyota Tundra winner.

Dave Cramer, the 2014 Raybestos Rattlesnake Toyota Tundra winner.

UPDATE: Winner announced for the 2014 Raybestos Rattlesnake Toyota Tundra contest on Nov. 7, 2013. Dave Cramer, property manager in Vancouver, Wash won the truck.

“To say I’m excited would be an understatement,” said Cramer in a press release. “I must have entered 10,000 contests in my lifetime, and this is the first time I won anything.” Cramer said he’s a bit of a car fanatic. “I’m single, but I own five cars!”

The Raybestos Rattlesnake ups that to six. Cramer’s son Eric, a deputy sheriff and retired army ranger, joined him at the presentation.

The signature-edition truck was the grand prize in the brands’ 2013 North American summer sales promotion. The winning entry was pulled from more than 170,000 entries received.

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2014 Toyota Trucks Best Resale Value – Kelley Blue Book

Another year, another Kelley Blue Book award for both Toyota pickups. The Tundra and Tacoma were just named top resale value winners in their respective categories. Toyota won the overall award for best resale value by brand.

2014 Best Resale Value Toyota Trucks - Kelley Blue Book

Another year and another award for the Toyota Tundra.

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Toyota Trucks Top Residual Value Rankings – 2013 ALG Report

The Toyota Tacoma and Tundra top the residual value rankings, once again proving that consumers looking for the best value in trucks should look at Toyota. These awards join the multitude of accolades both trucks win year, after year, after year, after year …

Toyota Trucks Top Residual Value Rankings - 2013 ALG Report

Toyota trucks have the best residual value according to an ALG study. This gives leasing customers the best return on investment versus other truck makers.

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Magic Towing Dust Explained, Sorta – The Fast Lane Truck J2807 Investigation

Our friends over at the The Fast Lane Truck, seriously Tim knows Roman personally, have filmed a couple of pretty interesting videos talking about the “magic towing dust” that manufactures have used to improve their towing capacity. The end result of the video investigation? Toyota does it right, the others do not.

Magic Towing Dust Explained, Sorta - The Fast Lane Truck J2807 Investigation

The Fast Lane Truck took on the magic towing dust issue and here is what they found.

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Ford In Class-Action Lawsuit for Updating Owner’s Manuals

Perhaps class-action lawsuits are good for our society, but I’m not seeing much evidence of that. Instead, I’m seeing bogus class-action lawsuits levied with little cause at every turn. Toyota settled a class-action lawsuit for $1.6 billion earlier this year, despite the fact that no one has ever been able to prove Toyota’s electronic throttle systems have a flaw. The law firms behind that class-action suit supposedly earned about $200 million in fees for their efforts, begging the question as to whether this class-action lawsuit was legitimate.

Now let’s be clear – I’m not saying that the lawyers behind this class-action business are all a bunch of greedy, blood-sucking scum who perverted the legal system for their own financial gain. I’m just saying that I think that’s a motivation for some of the lawyers involved.

Lawyers scum sucking joke

Are all lawyers bad? No. But the people behind these seemingly groundless class action lawsuits deserve a special place in hell.

Unfortunately, it’s Ford’s turn to face their own class-action lawsuit with dubious value. Specifically, Ford is being sued because they failed to provide “instructions on ‘what to do’ should an [sudden acceleration] event occur could mean the difference between life and death” to owners of older Ford vehicles, while offering these instructions to newer vehicle owners.

That’s right – Ford is being sued because they updated their owners manuals. Read more…