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Fred Onyango

Are Toyotas still the ‘indestructible’ cars everyone worships? Mechanics spill the tea — and it’s complicated

The grand debate in the auto industry is which brand makes the most reliable car, but in all honesty, Toyota seemed to have settled that argument quite some time ago. A mechanic on TikTok recently asked his colleagues whether that long-held belief still stands today, and their answers were far more divided than most people would expect.

There’s nothing quite as stressful as a young person buying their first car. That anxiety is so universal they literally built the billion-dollar franchise Transformers around it. When faced with that decision, there’s a flood of advice on how to get it right. First, you’re told to check the Carfax if the car is second-hand. Then you’re warned about navigating conversations with mechanics and avoiding being overcharged. It’s a whole process with one comforting rule of thumb: if you settle on a Toyota, you supposedly won’t have to worry about constant breakdowns.

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