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Originally Posted by chiplee
Can't tell if troll or serious. Toyota made the comment. I called it "milk toast." Higher octane fuel doesn't "contain more energy", but it "allows" an engine to make more power by allowing more aggressive timing and higher cylinder pressures before spark knock or detonation occurs. It seems the LX570 squeaks out an extra 2hp because the ECU is happier on 91 octane. I think it would just as happily detune itself 2hp when it sensed knock from running 87 octane and there would never be an issue.
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Confusion comes from "Toyota" wording wrong statement. I mean it's physically wrong. Most probably the person who wrote that standard "milk toast" response was a bit confused. Toyota itself does not equal to 1 employee person who got facts wrong. So Toyota doesn't need to check anything lol, neither does OP, but the anonymous Toyota employee needs to read up a bit about physics
In any case he/she probably wasn't an engineer, but more like PR worker or marketing clerk or something - so it's understandable - they just copy past things they have no idea about
LC is a solid choice OP. Not the first time I see a car that is a major blockbuster, even a legend in the rest of the world - sell so poorly in US. Oh well, at least we have some other good things going on