I came across this video this morning. A similar video, is made for other locations in the world, like the UK. However, this one is specifically aimed at audiences, here in Australia, & uses Australian towns & cities names throughout.  It is pretty damning, of the way the motor industry these days is run, where; design, is basically; to get the vehicle through the "warranty period".  However; that is not really the reason I'm posting the link here. It is the joy, that the Toyota brand name gets; not a single mention at all. Not one of the engines mentioned; be they, of European; Asian; or AUS origin; wears a Toyota badge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqU2I2wy2KI

Enjoy & rejoice.

Cheers Banjo 

Well that was short lived !  I don't know how A.I. works, but it was if it read my post, & then found a video to dispel my comment, about Toyota engines not making the 13 worst engines listing; then sent me the link.  Now this is a long video. It is however, well made; & very informative; & I suggest seeing it, right through to the end.  I came away, after watching it totally; glad that K Series engines are so simple; & do not involve the massive over complication of modern engine design.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QKr9qIgIEM

So just enjoy; without the rejoice.

Cheers Banjo  

On 9/19/2026 at 9:36 AM, Banjo said:

I came across this video this morning. A similar video, is made for other locations in the world, like the UK. However, this one is specifically aimed at audiences, here in Australia, & uses Australian towns & cities names throughout.  It is pretty damning, of the way the motor industry these days is run, where; design, is basically; to get the vehicle through the "warranty period".  However; that is not really the reason I'm posting the link here. It is the joy, that the Toyota brand name gets; not a single mention at all. Not one of the engines mentioned; be they, of European; Asian; or AUS origin; wears a Toyota badge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqU2I2wy2KI

Enjoy & rejoice.

Cheers Banjo 

I'm always wary of those videos, there are tonnes of similar ones out there for just about every type of product on the market (from cars to olive oil), and you just know they are full of AI slop and dubious/fake information. Not saying that there isn't truth buried in there, but the claims are often just vague enough to avoid being libelous or to hide where exactly the details have come from (if they have come from anywhere other than thin air).

For instance, the fact that at about 19 minutes in the video talks about "this isn't some 15yo engine on a badge that has left Australia, this is on a dealer forecourt in Blacktown, right now" talking about the Ford 3.0L TDV6, yet the pictures are of a Honda CRV (yes, I know the voiceover is being rhetorical, but it just goes to show how much effort is actually placed in to these videos). Another sign that it's AI text-to-voice is when they call the Ford 2.0L TD the "ee sea oh blue" rather than "Eco Blue". The thumbnails are always click-baity (usually with a screenshot of a news reader next to something on fire or a big red scary graph). Every video sounds the same, looks the same which shows that they're just pumped out with little to no human interaction, let alone someone real actually saying the words and appearing on camera (it's always short snippets without audio from other online videos or news stories)