The Taco Bell of Interiors: Toyota bZ4X Interior Review
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
- Carl reviews the interior of Toyota's first BEV on their new platform: the Toyota bZ4X.
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Carl is a big guy but he is all about the small details. Love this reviews
its more than small details this entry is a disaster
He better be or go home!! Captain obvious.
It's like saying That cook makes delicious meals, he better or he cannot continue being a SUCCESSFUL cook.... no?? If Carl weren't good, he would NOT be here, Munro is a no BS guy, he wold have gotten rid of him long ago... in fact he was checked before hiring.
He seems like a nice bloke. He should prioritise being not so big and live longer being a nice bloke…
Carl has been such a great addition to the Munro team, at least from my perspective. It's amazing that he can come in with such detailed, meticulous observations and still maintain his party animal status with the local colleges. Truly a renaissance man at work. ❤
I love Carl's commentary, informative, articulate and very knowledgeable - his presentations totally engross the viewer and seem to pass by so quickly
In all seriousness - this is the best example yet as to why Toyota is absolutely screwed in the EV transition.
Bruh, First to upvote
Reminds me of what Franz said during investor day about integrating design and manufacturing together. The savings can be huge!
Definitely not their best effort, but they are still really good at building things. Maybe the best.
@@outsmiter4894 With info like that you should be trading stocks with Pelosi.. Floppitygazillionsaire
None of the flaws in this video are EV related. Are the fossil and hybrid Toyotas any better?
Great analysis, thank you! I used to work in the flooring industry and discovered that many architects had no clue that carpet comes 12 or 15 ft wide. Had no clue how carpet is being seamed together (butt seam, angle seam, and so on) and that some types of carpets don't seam well. Similarly, many homes had huge family rooms in the basement (I live in Michigan) with no way of bringing large furniture down there.
I watch your videos! Cheers!
So quick to point the finger at architects. FYI, those details are actually matters an interior designer should be familiar with, not an architect. You’d rather complain online than sit down face to face and teach another professional the ins and out of your trade it seems. Too bad, you seem to have good knowledge. Regarding the comment about the furniture not fitting in the basement are you sure the builders even had architects on those projects? If they did have one, are you sure the basements were originally designed as family rooms per building permit? Are you sure the homeowner didn’t refuse to pay for better access of furniture even if it was a proper family room? I can’t answer those, but I can guess insufficient money was related to the poor results in some way. Because too many homeowners are willing to pay for the best materials but are too quick to skimp on architects, designers and expert craftspeople that implement a vision. Homeowners would rather an extra 500sf even if it’s poorly constructed. And no, I’m not an architect but I know the reality you ignore.
I retired myself from 25yrs in the commercial millwork / store & office fixture industry 5yrs ago, and something we often ran into was designers too clever for their own good, and many who had no fricking clue as to how to design large components to built in a factory, then transported and installed. Hell, more than a few times they didn’t bother to check the dimensions of elevators or model turn radii of staircases or landings in the state of the art 3D software with which they designed and demonstrated to their clients.
Ushanka Show! We love you! Surprised to see you here. People who do good work know good work i guess. :-)
@@zbyszanna Thanks!
Carl's reviews are always informative and helpful. He is a real asset.
Agreed
@7:11 Yes, you have talked to us and taught me much. I always feel more _educated_ after listening to you. _Thank you!_
One of the few channels that keeps it honest. Thank you for your Professional reviews.
Thanks, Carl! I really enjoy these unbiased pros/cons approach to each decision the designers made. Really enlightening!
Thanks you for adding the overlays for the acronyms. This channel was great, but I was often frustrated previously by not knowing what the heck the presenters were talking about with some of the acronyms. Great solution!
Carl, excellent analysis as always. Very detailed and objective. You always impress the viewers Carl. Thank you
Much appreciated!
Love the pop-up acronym decoder comments; appreciated, thanks! :)
Thanks for keeping it real! I’m so tired of the RUclips auto reviewer’s basically praise every car and they’re obsessed with calling everything premium just because it has diamonds stitching or some sort of soft touch material. And of course they have to say great things because if they don’t the manufacturers won’t give them cars to review. look how that car squishes around and all the parts move in bend and flex because they’re so cheap and flimsy. Meanwhile you jump in an Audi or some thing equivalent and there’s no bending or flexing or creaking. People don’t understand that real premium quality isn’t just the appearance.
This thing as ugly as crap. Looks like a 2010’s pc case. Who is the target market 12 year old boys? I just need some blue LED slapped all over the place that link to the music in a couple 120 mm fans and nobody will know the difference. And congratulations to Toyota, they are still the king of black shiny plastic
Amazing walkthrough. Love your videos. Thoughtful and detailed ! Thanks for sharing ! 🙏
Glad to hear it! Thanks for watching.
Carl gives us another great class in interiors. His attention to detail is awesome!
my god, the more i see this car previewed/reviewed the more horrendous it is to see Toyota reveal their first all electric car o.O
From the battery size, to the charging speed, to the range, to the interior, to the price .....This...THIS...is what they come up with so late in the game ????
And the name of the product
@@SiisKolkytEuroo of course thanks for not letting me forget :)
GOAT title.
Carl is always spot on, master class in his reviews, details and items the average buyer would never see (whom else looks seat sewing). The best part is he ties all the material, feature, and quality decisions to the price of car at the end. Is it worth it and gives a firm conclusion.
Great job Carl! Really enjoyed your detailed analysis...keep up the great work! Regards from Vancouver Canada.
Thanks, will do!
Very nice detailed review and I agree with pretty much all of it. Great job!
Thanks for watching!
Carl You have done it again! You made interiors interesting. Now I perform my own interior evaluations. As she said in Caddy Shack "Tanks fur nutt'n"
Hooks in the trunk are probably for a cargo net to hold stuff in when the liftgate opens. And the slit on the mirror cover in sun visors are for a parking card/ticket. I would expect him to guess those rather than being puzzled by. Never the less another great review.
Yes, I was screaming!!!
Carl's reviews are great! Would love to see him review a Rolls Royce or a Bentley one day just for laughs! "This is actual lambswool here, why did they use this material for the carpet?"
Because the guy in the back has just got in from an 8hr flight and wants to relax…
…and doesn’t have to clean it himself.
Tiny details, but I think, if Tesla had so many misalignments in the dash / ip and door panels as this car has, it would be all over the news :D
And still are, despite being fixed for over a year.
it has been and tesla is worse
@@ysesqNope. This is the worst EV I've ever seen and I have seen and driven many.
Not just the misalignments, but also the seemingly endless types of colored plastic and fabric details in the interior, which make the car look cheap (which it isn’t) but also add lots of cost and complexity. The minimalism of a Tesla is just an aesthetic choice, it saves the company money.
Sandy should have a 2 week boot camp, where we just get to hang out in the shop. I'd learn SO MUCH.
we have day long sessions
Amazing analysis by Carl, love the thought process he takes us through
🙏👊👍
Car salesmen must love this guy tearing apart their cars on site.
They sell overpriced Camrys or RAV4s and measly Corollas. They are not interested in selling Bee Cee Four eX.
@@wolfgangpreier9160It is "Be Zed for Ex". "Zed's dead baby. Zed's dead"
Love to see Carl's reviews!! Toyota likes cargo nets; it appears that the hatch hooks are for that accessory and have little other function, similar to their lower corresponding hook shown at 24:15
Am i missing something here? I see the hooks Carl showed us, but not lower hooks?
@@darylclifford they are on the inner surface facing the backs of the rear seats; one is visible at 24:15 (just above the load floor support) wherein Carl is showing the EPP foam insert has been textured (it's above his hand in the shot)
@@ryandoyle4344 I see where your referring to but I’m amazed you spotted it!
What carl figured out as soon he sat in that Toyota with the Cup Example, Toyota Engineer couldn't see that simple thing while designing the vehicle and yet Toyota thinks they gonna catch up to tesla :) Thank you Munro and Team :) Just the opening 30 sec show the thought process of Toyota :)
If Toyota would produce hydrogen generators for the home, I'd bring my own pen to the dealership.
@@cascade5682 They make them. They're quite large and expensive and not something you could fit in most garages. It also won't fill you up in a few minutes. A commercial hydrogen filling station costs at least $1.8M and can fill 36 cars per day. A fast DC charger cost $200K (except for Tesla where it's under $50K). A home charger can be had for only a few hundred dollars since it's basically not much more than a relay and GFCI. There are a LOT of problems with hydrogen. Right now there is virtually no green hydrogen. Why? It's far too expensive to produce, costing well over twice as much to produce. Hydrogen is a major pain to deal with properly. You can't transport it in normal pipelines due to hydrogen embrittlement like you can gasoline or even methane. You can't transport a lot of it on a truck since it's not very dense volumetrically. It must be either cryogenically cooled to -253C, 20C over absolute zero (liquid nitrogen is a balmy -196C), or must be compressed to very high pressures (700 bar/10,000 PSI) and cooled due to PV=nRT (ideal gas law) before filling. And trucking with those pressures requires that the tanks be quite heavy and small (hence a lot of long skinny tanks). Also, that nice hydrogen vehicle has a sticker inside the fuel door that gives an expiration date. After that date, you are not allowed to fill your vehicle without replacing major hydrogen components, which costs more than the vehicle is worth. You're buying a car with a built-in expiration date. Besides, with EVs you can often charge just about everywhere and you don't need to stay with your vehicle while doing so. For example, in my EV I can charge at work, at home, or at the shopping center and do other things while my car charges. And as for charging speed, it is steadily getting faster to where cars are starting to be able to reach 80% charge in 15 minutes. EV chargers can also be placed just about anywhere. Hydrogen filling stations have far more restrictions due to the risk of fire and explosions, which have happened.
As far as hydrogen filling stations, they can only handle a limited number of vehicles per day, typically no more than 36!!!. The capital cost of a hydrogen station is around 25 times that of a gasoline station. That's why they're all heavily subsidized by the taxpayers. There's just no way to make hydrogen economically viable.
You had an argument until you brought up Tesla, which has no standards in build quality where parts don't line up, where gaps are inconsistent, etc.
@@onlysublime Well, the BZ4 had to stop production for months because the wheels fell off.
@@aaronwilliams1249 and multiple Tesla's had the steering wheel fall off
Thank you Carl. I believe you take the ribbon as world’s most courteous nit picker. I really enjoyed your analysis.
Great lecture Carl.
To my eye the interior looks quite crowded. Reminds my of the futuristic looks of the 80’s. Probably a matter of taste.
You mean not like a plastic cheap desert like in a Tesla?
@@brunoheggli2888clean and minimalist, you mean? Less to break and go wrong in general, less moving parts.
@@bluetoad2668 No just cheap low quality!
For this kind of money i would like an interior like from a lexus!Last week i sat in a Peugeout 308 pluginhybrid touring i loved the seats the whole interior looked nice and sporty!Fellt so good i was close to buy one!But than rationality hit me,"for what do i need a car anyway?"So its better to go to the Peugeot dealer every week sit inside the car and make some brrrrr brrrrrr brrrrooommm for a while!:)
@@bluetoad2668 The seats the doorpannels the dash is just so lame without anyting of joy!
Love when he gets to the sun visors lol
Excellent review. thank you!
Thanks for watching!
To me, this kind of design shows disdain for the customer-and, sadly, the customer is either too unsophisticated to know it or not wealthy enough to have a choice in the matter.
Toyota was TOP of automotive game in 1980, but not anymore.
Today Toyota has outdated technology & wrong kind of engineers working.
except this costs more than an ID.4 MSRP. And it’s more than a base Model 3…
The displayed acronyms are highly appreciated 👌
Not wealthy enough? Have you seen the price of this piece of junk ? ( And yes, I said junk - it loses 50% of range in cold weather)
@@bluetoad2668 A $50k car (devalued dollars) paid over 84 months (5% rate) is the opposite of wealth. We’re all much poorer now and the level of quality we can afford is dismal. The only thing that can mitigate this is better processes, better materials. IMO.
Please rate everything by which Taco Bell hot sauce they are from now on. Is this Mild, Hot, Fire, or Diablo?
Battery performance under low temperature: tear gas.
Savage Geese video tears this car apart on line today with a test drive ...
THANKS CARL AND MUNRO …💚💚💚
Carl, I love your reviews. You try very hard to be impartial but I share your struggle with the juxtaposition of value with what you are seeing.
This is why it's important to have a balance of stylists, engineers, and accountants involved in the design and manufacture of a car. A lot of the things you talk about you seem to be purely from a cost reduction perspective, which is not always the correct way of looking at the design of a marketable consumer product where emotion is half of the driver for motivating the sale.
No. Many of them are standard components. He would know that if he had ever driven a Toyota in the last 20 years. The cheapest part is one you already have. Toyota also doesnt want a fancier interior in their marque vehicles because that leaves no room for Lexus. Its not splashy and new, but it does make sense.
I like the scene cuts in the video for the different chapters.😊
Great video, attention to details, form, function, ect…
Hey Carl, those hooks at the back of the trunk are probably for a cargo net. Something to keep the bowling balls from rolling out onto your feet when you open the lift gate. Great review!
Now Carl got me wondering if we will ever see a McDonalds or BK comparison 😂😂
To me, it looks like a late-stage prototype - not a production model. Great video Carl!
Carl is so knowledgeable. Thx
Thank you Carl!
Amusing as a non-Toyota shareholder. Toyota continues to jump the shark……..surprised they didn’t give this SUV the old Crown moniker……the pricing fits🙄
Hey!! Thank you guys!
Our pleasure!
I LAUGHED SO HARD AT THE TITLE
Five minutes in and the vehicles looks like the proverbial cf.
A really fair and honest review. I even spotted a few panel gaps of the inside of the door that look really shoddy. Toyota can do better than this.
Very happy with this car, no BS, best warranty of all brands
Haven't watched any of the video yet but that title is awesome 😂
Wow excellent analysis!
Thank you kindly!
Don't mess up with Carl, automakers! He will find and expose EVERYTHING and keeps it real!
The interior of the bZ4X is so spacious and comfortable. There’s plenty of legroom, and the seats are really supportive for long drives.
Perfect… Taco Bell…I love it! great video thank you!
Really good review, love your step by step and knowledge you remind me of myself. I’m not from an engineering background, but I can tell what looks good and bad for design.
Keep the videos coming
My brain cells died watching this car interior details.
They died saying ‘Why, why, why’…😂
The bad thing about the perforated seats is when you drop Nacho Bell Grande on the seat it's difficult to clean up. Also there's so much piano black I was expecting Billy Joel to show up at any moment.
If you combine that with flavoured sugar water, SOMEthing will grow out of that.
I think Carl is my favorite from the Munro team
27:50 it's actually a one injection mold. And it seems like its structure is made to lock cover in place.
That Sun visor at the end is hilarious.
I know what happened - Toyota benchmarked the interior of the VW ID3 😂
🌮 Taco Bell analogy 7:42
I am going to be so annoying the next time I go car shopping. Thanks for the education!
Channel your inner Carl!
For that access slot on the back of the seats, I don't use child car seats, but frequently "catch" on the mounting point's bezel when loading large things into the back of my car, which means that I have to come around into the side door, and try to lift the item up and over the lip of the bezel. I much prefer this lower-profile sollution, but see how it's likely not as long-lasting for those who would use it.
Would like to see Carl review the teslas interior. Well, not only tesla but all vehicles that goes through Munro :)
Dang it Carl...now I can't unsee all those uneven lines!
Great review!!
Thanks!
the title of this video already had me rolling lmao
"Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly." -Proverb
A suggestion car for Carl to take a look into Zeekr X:
the interior space of the car is redefined.
1. a folding up rear passenger seat: no truck for grocery but just seating in the rear floor
2. moving central consol with fridge and freezer dual function
3. HUD come in as standard and a moving screen from center to the right (imagine you now can delegate navigation/change the destination task to passenger without panic during the drive)
Plastic loops in the trunk is for cargo net accessory from Toyota. There are also two loops you can flip down at the bottom to have four clip points.
Always enjoyable review! And those weird sunshades-really!
Carl, if you care about the lining up of the fabric. Suggestion: turn the pattern of the fabric 45 degrees. Then the lines do not run parallel with the air inlet. But do have an intersect, and any nonregular lining is not noticed.
Imagine what their software design is like if this is the interior 😂
But for sure nobody talks about the cheap shitty interior from Tesla!Compleat not biast right?
@@brunoheggli2888 begone troll, we can all see your ranting comments by clicking on your avatar.
@@brunoheggli2888Every one is past 10 years.
Relevance? WhatAboutIsm is no way to improve.
@@brunoheggli2888 they have also reviewed Tesla interiors which, speaking from experience, are neither cheap nor 'shitty'
Yay, the editors are getting involved in acronym decoding!
As someone who's been a keen (amateur) sewer since childhood, my granny was a professional seamstress all of her career & I learnt a lot from watching her, I find that the top stitching on the bolster looks off because there's no way to have the single stitching run to in to meet up with one half of the double French stitching in one (apparent) contiguous line. It makes it look as though a learner sewer has done the job; something I might have done between the ages of 8 & 10yrs old.
It will seem as though I'm nitpicking here, but if I'm going to pay this much money for an item, car, or otherwise, then I expect these sorts of details to be spot on.
It's a Toyota, after a few months you really won't care about the stitching. Most drivers never clean their interior so it really doesn't matter.
@@williamgrunzweig571 You're probably right, but as I said, I'm a bit of a nitpicker. Because I'm reasonably handy with a sewing machine, when shopping for clothes in a higher end clothing shop, I'll check the seams, hems, zips and buttons for any poorly sewn items. I've found over the years that this is often a good idea as they're frequently poorly finished despite the price tag and after a very wearings, they often either come undone or off - which is bloody annoying, especially if the garment cost an arm and a leg. Consequently, I tend to apply this same approach to all purchases meant to last a good while.
🤣🤣🤣 I've had some VERY filthy looks in high-end clothing stores as I go through the usual checklist.....but it's my hard earned cash and value for money is important to me. Don't mind paying a high price, but I'll be damned if shoddy workmanship is acceptable.
you'd be surprised how dirty majority of car are. especially gen z and gen alpha. car to us and alpha is pretty much a point a to b machine and our parents already have dirty beater for us to use so...... even better, according to national stats, half of our generation is living with our parents so now you know. )
Such an insightful video. As others have said, Toyota are in another world with their EV aesthetic, and it’s not a good world. $50k+ should still buy so much more than this.
I see Carl I press play!
great review thanks
Thanks for watching!
The little guys are into the big engineering and the biggest guy is into the tiniest interior details.
Great observation on the name…the terrible name alone should be a sign that they’re not thinking things through
They thought things through carefully.
First they asked "Do we want to go EV?" They decided no.
So then they asked "How do we ensure that we don't sell more than a handful?"
The rest followed from there. This is Toyota's version of reasoning from first principles.
I listen to RUclips while I'm driving, and I am at the mercy of the algorithm.
When this came on I didn't know who it was, but listening to this guy made me think damn. This guy is as good as the guys at Monroe.
Then at the end I realized it was Monroe.
You guys do great work!
I seems to me this EV is like so many others, filled with needless creases, fussiness, and clunkiness. I hope some day they move toward simpler designs and lower costs. Now they're starting to remind me of GM during the 1950's, where they just kept piling on the chrome and heightening the tailfins.
Word! The analogy you mention sounds very plausible. 👍
Not everyone wants a simple boring interior.. Some people actually like things to be unique and have some character. Tesla makes great battery and powertrains, The interiors are about as nice as a 90's Geo Metro. Boring, and cheap feeling.
Those GM cars in the 50's are now considered some of the best looking and most desirable cars.. and they were at the time too.
Minimalism is taste, and many people want some styling features. Not all people like nor want Tesla interiors
Thanks Carl and your not the only big guy there are many of us and I have had to turn around and leave a dealership before just after sitting in the car as the interior design that would stop me from using the car, one of those cars was a Toyota RAV4 manual shift right hand drive as my knee would hit the line going from the steering wheel to the centre console each time...
No idea what the Toyota designers of the interior was thinking with some of the details in this bz4xyz car though.
Thank you!
You're welcome!
I started buying cars in the late 60’s. Most were ordered with your own option selections. The Japanese came alone with pretty much fully loaded from the factory as it sped up the production line. Now all the cars are so fully loaded costs have gone up. No car is worth $60,000 plus, imo. I have owned Lambos, Aston martins, and many Porsches. All depreciating liabilities. I will stick with my minimalist Teslas with all the options on a screen.
I live in an area with many unsealed roads and this car just looks like a pain to clean the dust out of.
I would like to see a warning sign - "do not pinch your cup it may result in excessive spilling"
...of HOT liquids!
@@Stefan_Dahn That would be a sexual innuendo and strictly VERBOTEN in the puritanical US of A.
In Germany it would have to be a sign: „Achtung, Positionieren Sie Ihren Amerikanischen Papierkaffeebecher nicht zwischen den Sitzen und bewegen Sie die Mittelarmlehne um Verunreinigungen durch heiße oder kalte oder mittelwarme Flüssigkeiten zu vermeiden. Redbull, Jever und Pepsi sind geschützt.“
Funny thing: We dont need such signs. Only on the trucks for the little children and blind people „Angles Mortes“…
Carl shows how to tear a car apart without actually tearing it apart. The rest of the Munro team enjoy tearing a car apart.
oh my god carl is so goddamn amazing...
Buttons, buttons and more buttons!
I love it,they are great!
Carl - you show no mercy on this car!
27:50 think it’s a spring action to click in place. You can see snap as you close it.
Toyota , what are you doing !
Falling behind GM
@@teachingthecode4651
OUCH!
Building great reliable cars that everybody wants to buy!
I believe that the mirror visor is also a card holder explaining the shape
I think the cutout in the sun visor mirror cover is to hold papers or business cards.
The Toyota Busy4x, Yes, the styling is so busy looking it's 4 times over! It's Toyota's Pontiac Aztec!
I think the cut in the sun visor slider for the mirror is for a small document/title to put in.