Yearly Archives: 2016


Has anyone else had there payments account closed arbitrarily by +Google? A cryptic email says only "Due to suspicious activity, your Google Payments account has been temporarily closed."

I went to payments.google.com and went through the verification process and they still won't reactivate my account. Worse still, they won't provide any indication as to why this is happening aside from a vague "violation of terms of service".

How am I supposed to keep this from happening again if they won't tell me what happened in the first place?

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Just as the midsize pickup truck segment is heating up again, the +

Just as the midsize pickup truck segment is heating up again, the +TOYOTA Tacoma got a complete redesign last year including a TRD Off-Road model.

2016 Toyota Tacoma TRD Off-road – And Off-road is Where it Belongs – Sam’s Thoughts
The idea of the off-road vehicle is by no means new, but it used to be that people that wanted to go bouncing around in sand dunes, crawling through canyons or racing through the desert would basically have to build their own. Aside from the Jeep Wrangler and its predecessors, almost no factory-built truck had …


2016 Toyota Tacoma TRD Off-road – And Off-road is Where it Belongs

2016 Toyota Tacoma TRD

2016 Toyota Tacoma TRD

The idea of the off-road vehicle is by no means new, but it used to be that people that wanted to go bouncing around in sand dunes, crawling through canyons or racing through the desert would basically have to build their own. Aside from the Jeep Wrangler and its predecessors, almost no factory-built truck had real serious off-road capability. However, in the past decade we’ve seen automakers go from building hot-rod trucks like the Chevy Syclone, Ford F-150 Lightning and Dodge Ram SRT-10 to more serious off-roaders like the F-150 SVT Raptor and this Toyota Tacoma TRD Off-Road.

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