Anyone with doubts about Toyota's ability to make great vehicles should bear in mind that three UK hooligans, on the "Top Gear" program, tried very hard to kill a Toyota Pickup.

After crashing it, burning it, and dropping it nose first from a crane, they finished off by putting it on the roof of a ten storey building, which was then demolished with explosives.

Ten storeys down, after the dust settled, their mechanic put a new battery in it, then started it up, and drove it away.

I've had Fords that stopped if a passerby spat on the pavement.

I think I might well buy a Toyota, if I had the Moola.

Recalls are part and parcel of buying the latest model. I'm lucky. I can't afford anything younger than ten years.

All the teething troubles have gone when I get 'em.

Don T.