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in my limited experience most of the hating is tongue-in-cheek. wheeling is wheeling and most guys get that. I have never seen a toyota guy leave a jeep stranded or vice versa.
back when I first started wheeling the Toyota trucks were seen as invaders by both the Jeep and FJ crowds. Neither group wanted to share the trails with us, but since we were Toyota's, the FJ crowd was a little more open to us
What I liked about the Jeeps were they were short, what I didn't like about them was they were short.
jeeps cost big bucks stock and even more to build, just a longarm RE lift is 3000+ some think they are better than import guys.
Toyota guys see the little dana 30s and 35s broken and keep that thought of jeeps. but I don't think any would leave the other stranded just cause what they drive.
I do get a kick out a badas$ built jeep that will never go offroad, such a waste. but its theres to do what they want.
Snowtoy, I've been "wheeling" since 1983 when I was 3 yrs old so of course I didn't know what was going on, but your entire post sums up how the "elders" around me describe it all. I quoted the above because this I do remember from growing up and that is FJ40 owners looking down at Hilux / pickup owners because pickups are built for a light duty purpose with thinner frames and smaller engines, plus the FJ was 4WD before the pickup by almost twenty years.
Small engines, that's funny seeing how the FJ's couldn't even get out of their own way, I have always thought a cool project would be to restore an FJ40 and drop a 2jzgte w/twins in it, in stock form it would be an awesome sleeper.
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