"gokstate" (gokstate10)
04/10/2018 at 09:59 • Filed to: None
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"gokstate" (gokstate10)
04/10/2018 at 09:59 • Filed to: None | 2
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Disclosure: I don’t have much of a social media presence. I average about one facebook post every year or two.
Roughly one decade and two years ago, Twitter went public. That’s fine, I’ve never had a reason to need to tweet. Times and circumstances change. In 2018, the world finds itself in turmoil: The threat of nuclear war, wealth and gender inequalities, trade wars, and perhaps the most alarming of all: the disappearance of manuals from sports cars.
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My feeble (tweeble?) effort consisted of about 13 tweets to Toyota Corp and Toyota USA. I’m not even certain I did it right. I shared pics of the three Toyota vehicles I’ve owned and driven over the past (nearly) 30 years: an ’86 MR2, ’01 4Runner, and a ’14 FJ Cruiser. They’ve all been great cars for me, and I’d love to get in on the next gen Supra, manually equipped please.
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I then followed with senseless pics and gifs on the strong rumors that the new Supra won’t be offered in a manual.
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I should mention this is also my first Oppositelock post. I’m not a delusional twit to think that either of these *cough, cough* expositional efforts will amount to diddly poo, but I’m solidly in the camp of those that decry the loss of manuals and enthusiast cars. For my part, I bought a 2017 manual equipped GTI this year. This will be a daily driver for me for a couple of years, and then it will be the car I both teach my teenager to drive in, and their (hopefully) long term school car. If Toyota brings a manual Supra, I’d more likely than not at this point buy one.
What have you done to #savethemanuals today?
You can find me @Manual2theSupra. You can probably gather where my conversations will be going....
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gokstate
> gokstate
04/10/2018 at 10:51 |
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Also-if someone could tell me how to put a thumbnail photo in my post headlines, I’d appreciate it!
RiceRocketeer Extraordinaire
> gokstate
04/10/2018 at 10:58 |
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I respect the effort but I feel like you’re just screaming into the uncaring void at this point.
WilliamsSW
> RiceRocketeer Extraordinaire
04/10/2018 at 11:01 |
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yea but sometimes it at least feels good to be doing something :)
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RiceRocketeer Extraordinaire
> WilliamsSW
04/10/2018 at 11:09 |
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that’s what I say every time I go to pornhub ... (kidding, sort of)
for what it’s worth, I nag Acura and Infiniti every time they send me an owner survey but that hasn’t seemed to change their minds.
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RiceRocketeer Extraordinaire
> gokstate
04/10/2018 at 11:10 |
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just put a picture at the beginning of your article and kinja should (heh, should) thumbnailify it for you.
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WilliamsSW
> RiceRocketeer Extraordinaire
04/10/2018 at 11:15 |
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Yeah, I get a lot of surveys from Lexus, myself, so I nag them, too — that’s probably even more useless than complaining to Acura or Toyota TBH.
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RiceRocketeer Extraordinaire
> WilliamsSW
04/10/2018 at 11:23 |
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I haven’t seen any new Civic Si’s around, nor the new Accord 2.0T with the manual. I hope Honda doesn’t start getting ideas too.
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gokstate
> WilliamsSW
04/10/2018 at 11:46 |
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I get it. It’s a step above pissing in the wind, but better than letting it just knock around my brain.
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WilliamsSW
> RiceRocketeer Extraordinaire
04/10/2018 at 18:18 |
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Honda, BMW and Mazda feel like our last, best hopes, for those of us that need 4 doors. :(
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WilliamsSW
> gokstate
04/10/2018 at 18:19 |
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Agree!!! Get it off your chest - maybe the only thing it accomplishes is to make you feel better, but hell, that’s still something.
And - welcome aboard!
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WilliamsSW
> gokstate
04/10/2018 at 18:19 |
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What RiceRocketeer said- if you lead the post off with the photo, it should thumbnail.
pip bip - choose Corrour
> gokstate
04/11/2018 at 09:33 |
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followed
Sam
> gokstate
04/27/2018 at 09:40 |
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Heck, if they do offer a manual, you can believe it was partly due to your efforts as well (even if untrue). And if they dont, well nothing was expected anyways.
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gokstate
> Sam
04/27/2018 at 10:15 |
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Thanks. I’d print this off, stuff it in a folder with every other piece of news I could find —a scrapbook of posts to go along with my manual Supra in the garage.
Sadly, I don’t see it happening, but dreams are free!