Speculating that in many big companies finance, marketing, HR and near term stock results go over solid Engineering and Manufacturing. Mercedes went through this change in the nineties and I would not buy one anymore today. I am afraid Toyota is down this path now. A non Toyoda CEO is the result together with near term stock market focus. I hope I am wrong.I agree. I don’t understand Toyota’s thought process to make a hybrid that doesn’t increase efficiency, rather just a temporary torque boost, which then makes it so they can’t offer AWD due to the increased torqued when practically all of their competitors do.