Okay last post of they day. But I have to say I'm Love-love-loving the Toyota downfall. And the fact that every word their CEOs spill out of their mouths only digs a deeper hole.

Not to mention the commercials which say that they had a solution made before they ever made the recall.....guess they just wanted to see how many deaths were actually going to happen before they had to recall they issue.

 

yep. the japanese car makers finally have a GM-style downfall! whoo!


go big three!

 

No such thing as the big three anymore. Could be considered the big two I guess, but in my book there is only one that survived this economic fallout with any dignity and that is Ford.

 

How the hell does Chrysler even stay in business?

 

Ford's definitely doing the best. When that 2011 v6 hits the market, it will sell like no other.. people will see 30mpg, and have a mustang they will go crazy. Ford will skyrocket!

 

Toyota is a great company..they stood by their customers with the frame rust on the Tacomas that wasnt even Toyota's fault (it was Dana corps fault...they were the ones who fucked up the metal mix on the frames) Toyota paid me $6800 for a tacoma I paid $4000 for just one month after I bought it...it was a 1996 model at that. I have a 96 T100 that runs like a lexus and is still on the original clutch at over 190k miles.

Lets not condemn Toyota for this recent recall...its a computer related **** up..easy to happen. Yeah they fucked up this time, but I have no doubt that they will stand by their customers, just as they have done so well in the past.

 

Well considering they cut the most amount of fat possible I'm sure their crunching some hard hard numbers to scathe by. And the bailout helps lol.

I do think that this is a serious case of Karma. Years of manipulating your own economy (in respect to the Japanese) in relation to the US economy to make your cars cheaper, years of lobbying for no import tax or tariffs, and saying that they're "US made" leads you here. A company producing cars that rust, lead to wrecks, or fall apart in three years. Maybe finally people will realize why buying American made is the "best". It still goes to big CEOs mostly, but at least Ford cares about its customers much more than anyone can say for Toyota.

 

I cant say that im glad that toyota has gone down, but it is a good thing in some cases. US car companies will be stepped up a bit, hopefully bring us out of this rut a bit. I think toyota is a decent car maker, and company, but yea they seriously fucked up on this one. I dont know the whole story so ill keep my opinion shortish. I cant diss nissan too much, because i have a 1989 pickup with over 300k+ miles, hit by lightning and had a tree fall on it and its still trukin. All i can say is, Go Ford.

 

Toyota knew of the problem. These issues have been reported as far back as a year and a half ago when they originally thought the issue was because of the floor mats, but they saw that some had stuck accelerators too. So instead of fixing the problem, they ignored it.

The Ford plant here has problems everyday with transmissions and ECU issues, but they don't truck them out anyways. They take the hit on the cost to fix the problems, not just hope that it'll never cause any real problems and ship it out anyways. No other business can do that and get away with it. Sure they're fixing the problem, and actually fixing it. But it's still the fact that they ignored the problem and just let it go.

I don't condemn anyone, but when you state that you're taking over US sales and have a better product hands down than anyone else, yet the real truth is that the product is defective and you're just raking in the money.

I just disagree with the way our automotive system is setup. The big-three (or whats left of them) will never succeed when we don't charge import taxes on products coming into the US, yet when we send cars across seas they get charged tons of import taxes and fees. We can't compete with an economy that can be manipulated to make its products cheaper when we willingly let it happen.

Not saying KILL ALL JAPANESE COMPANIES, but at least treat them how they treat us instead of opening up the *** of our economy to be dry-fucked by the over-sized ***** that is the japanese auto industry...

/rant end

 

meh...I love my Yoda.