WOW! WHAT A DIFFERENCE A FEW MILLION RECALLS MAKE!

Tammy.  One of the reasons I have driven SUVs since the last 1980s is for the comfort of my buyers.  Lots of leg room in the back seat and seats that keep folks upright and avoid back fatique. 

Of course, there is the matter of driving a truck, 4X4, sitting high and seeing ahead, overall safety and cargo space.  Works for me.

Ann.  HA!  I had a friend with a Green Hornet that had the same problem.  That was in the 1980s.

Lana.  I don't like small cars either.  The Sequoia was really too large.  I kept "clipping things in parking lots and my own garage. 

The 4Runner is a fabulous vehicle. 

So far.

Endre.  I rode in a Lexus once, a loan officer's vehicle.  Luxurious indeed.  I prefer driving trucks.

Jane.  Indeed.  I like driving a safer vehicle.  I never worried about the matter of "roll over" for SUVs because I believe that those were caused by excessive speed going around turns.  Of course, Ford did have a suspension defect which they tried to hide for over a couple of years.  Sad, sad.

Jackie.  Good for you. 

I thought my Sequoia was unsafe too. 

Bill.  So far, there is nothing reported on the 4Runner.  Nor have I experienced any problems. 

With the Sequoia, I did experience problems, defective acceleration.  However, Toyota refused to "find anything wrong". 

At that time, 14 months ago, I just wanted to get rid of the dang thing.  I didn't want to drive it. 

One thing for sure.  There can be no more trust in the word of Toyota than in Ford when they stonewalled the matter of the rolling over Explorer.

I don't believe a word that any of them say, anytime, anyplace about anything.

C. Lloyd.  Indeed.  Actually, I would have made more noise had that particular defect been known.  This was last November before the present gas petal sticking was in the news. 

I thought that perhaps the problem was in the transmission since I had recently had the transmission fluid changed.  I was wrong. 

It was a defect not yet made public.  I would bet a dollar to donuts thought that the guys at Toyota that claimed that there was nothing wrong knew of the defect.

Oh well.  I'm just glad I got rid of it.

David.  Agreed.  Sad though that they stonewalled the matter until about 21 persons died as a result of the sticking accelerator.  Sad too that the matter of the sluggish accelerator, such as I experienced, was simply ignored and swepped under the rug. 

What infuriates me is that, after being a loyal "Buy American" for decades, I finally went to Toyota because the American automakers had become so smarmy. 

Where do I go now???  The only viable American auto maker is Ford.  However, I have vivid recollections of Ford executives lying, stonewalling and causing the deaths of Americans because of the rollover problem which, eventually was traced to suspension defects. 

Where to go.  I have 24,000 miles on my 4Runner.  I haven't kept autos for many miles in the past 5 years or so.  I wanted to trade them before they began repair problems.  I drove a Chevy Blazer for 275,000 miles but when I went to the Trail Blazer, it was one problem after another. 

Where to go????  Where to go?????