Steering wheel issues around GR badging

DylanJZA said:

I still love them, but they make mistakes too, and today's Toyota is unfortunately not the Toyota of the 80s and 90s.

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Can confirm, peak Toyota was definitely circa 2000. I've had Toyotas as old as 1980 and as new as 2010 and from what I saw the more recent Toyotas have had engineering/manufacturing cost cutting measures. Example is my 1998 Tacoma had a solid dipstick with an over molded plastic handle, so the handle couldn't break off; newer Tacoma 2009 model year had a 2 part dipstick that felt chinsey and the yellow handle could break off from the dipstick... My 1998 Tacoma dipstick had really nice cross hatching on the oil level check area so it was easy to see what level the oil was at. My 2010 Corolla has a shiny dipstick with no crosshatching on the tip and I actually had to scuff it up with sandpaper to be able to read the oil level effectively. Other cost cutting measures are the injection molded plastic intake manifolds you see on most new cars vs the 1990s and 2000s most Hondas and Toyotas were made with really nice cast aluminum intake manifolds.

Newer is not always better.