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Car Problems? Let's Call it Another Recall
Floormats that jam, sticking gas pedals, Prius brakes that delay/don't work, now a power steering system issue in the popular subcompact, the Corolla, a staple and symbol of Toyota's quality in America tops the list of issues Toyota is now facing.
Meanwhile, the company's President, Akio Toyoda, grandson of the founder said that he won't be attending the US Congressional hearing on Toyota's safety issues- instead, he's trusting the company's US executives to face the fire.
He wants to focus his energies on solving all the company's worldwide safety/quality issues.
According to a report by the Associated Press:
"I trust that our officials in the U.S. will amply answer the questions," Toyoda told reporters Wednesday. "We are sending the best people to the hearing, and I hope to back up the efforts from headquarters."
But just as you thought anymore shit couldn't have possibly hit the proverbial fan- Toyota executive in charge of quality controls, Shinichi Sasaki, said Toyota is seriously taking the complaints about power-steering problems in the Corolla, the world's best-selling car to consideration and weighing another recall.
"Sasaki said drivers may perceive a strange feeling as though they were losing control over the steering, but it was unclear whether the problem was with the braking system or a problem with the tires."
There have been fewer than 100 complaints.
Maybe it's torque-steer?
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Bottom line - ldling two US Toyota assembly facilities. Wall St up - Wall St Looooves unemployment ! Lets have a big Huzzah for the pinstripers .
huh?
Yes, idle US Toyota ... in fact lets all destroy the
reputation of Toyota. That way everyone will start
driving GM and Chrysler or a Ford. Perhaps the US
will ban Toyota as a danger to the American public ?
Im sure the new ad campaign doesn't help much:
You can't make this crap up. Seriously.
http://jalopnik.com/5472819/toyotas-awfully+timed-zombie-corolla-ad
I wonder if they used actual customers for the ads.
Would they give a FREE maintenance service when you bring in your car to ease my suffering? :)
Actually in the real world, it probably worked like this...
Hey, you western cowboyguys have it till 1960 or so and then really start screwing it up. And then you eastern obedientguys, start shitty and then we'll build you into some quality icons, so you'll be easy to tear down later. Meanwhile, we'll make all cars have common suppliers and designs. People will die of design boredom, creating a whole new class of collateral damage from our in-the-dust-you-go-ry. We will then have achieved unsafe standing still status.
At this point, Ralph Waldo Nadir.........
Then you all die of a High-volt shock.
Then?
Then, we'll give it to a geek who will use laptop batteries and build 200,000 dollar sports cars.
Then?
Mars or whatever. That's virgin territory for now.
Ridden a horse lately?
Having worked in the car industry with all the major players I'd take a Toyota over any other car. Nice action of the US carmakers to tarnish a competitor's reputation, though. Will they get better themselves doing so?
Last year, Ford recalled ~14,000,000 cars without any noise.
The bottom line: American f**king hypocrisy at its best and Japanese stupidity trying to please their American masters.
Did Ford need a congressional hearing? Or was is voluntary before anyone died??
That was a number for vehicles recalled over a period of several (100 years. No deaths and only one fire before Ford voluntarily recalled the switches. Not as big of a deal as the current Toyota death-trap recalls.
Toyota- one big quality joke hiding behind huge warranty and advertising costs.
There are a lot of people drooling over this Toyota thing. So, anytime someone is so fired up about something like this, I have to ask...what skin do they have in this game?
For everyone else...you're in a one to two ton machine, traveling on roads built by the lowest bidder inches away from like machines traveling in the opposite direction, thus doubling your effective speed, yet 99.9% of the time you arrive safely at your destination. At what point in our over-litigious society do we say to ourselves that we can not completely protect ourselves? And, especially, the government can not protect us.
Those who take up this mantel against Toyota, you are playing into the government game. Look at the polls. No one trusts the government anymore. They are seizing on this story because it gives them cover for their failures. The would love to perp-walk Toyota Aiko in front of Congress in the best McCarthy tradition to make everybody think they are doing their jobs. Meanwhile, many more lives have been hurt by the financial ruin that government had a big hand in than any car manufacturer in the history of cars.
The media loves this game as well. Outrage is headline, particularly for a media that has been carrying water for the government for a long time.
So, ask yourself the same question I ask...what's the skin in the game for all of this?
Which Toyota gives you the most inspiration? Prius? Corolla? just wondering...
I drive neither Toyota nor American. That said, no matter what I drive I understand the risks. So, which car inspires you to take that same risk? GM? Chrysler? Just wondering.....
I prefer German or Italian. Toyotas are just too boring; you can't feel the road, they're slow, and the styling sucks. To me they're just a waste of money. If I was going to spend 25k on a car I would take a used BMW over a new Toyota. If I was forced to get a new car it would be a Hyundai Sonata (4 cylinder with 200 hp) or a Ford Fusion (awd option plus the interior lighting option is chill). Why would anyone want a Toyota?
maybe, just maybe, this toyota #$%#$%#$@% has something to do with the u.s. government OWNING a couple of car companies.
""Let me say this as plainly as I can. If you buy a car from Chrysler or General Motors, you will be able to get your car serviced and repaired just like always," Obama said in a speech. "Your warranty will be safe. In fact, it will be safer than it has ever been. Because starting today, the United States will stand behind your warranty."
Read more: http://www.autoweek.com/article/20090330/carnews/903309977#ixzz0fnVHQUYv
I have a nagging feeling that there is more to this story than is reported. False flag anyone?
GM running the show over at the recall? How convenient that the automaker currently outselling GM has been crippled by these recalls...
Also, funny how they have all these manufacturing and assembly problems now after they move the plants to the U.S. and use U.S. workers.
ASSEMBLED, not designed nor are the parts PRODUCED in the US.
So save it for your Haiku masters.
You were making a good point until you injected your nationalistic and racial bias. Tis a pity.
So, now the US Government is going to have Toyota recall all cars with safety issues? All the more reason to buy Toyota, for if there are safety issues they will be instantly identified by GM & Chrysler, passed on to the government and the cars recalled/fixed. I suppose the exact opposite will happen to GM & Chrysler, whose problems will be ignored, denied and unattended. Indeed, they may never be revealed.
This is exactly why I prefer white male professionals (doctors, lawyers, etc). They had to be the absolute best in order to get above the political/affirmative action fray.
You might want an asian doctor, then. Asians in general need higher scores to get into the good colleges, because if they didn't, places like Yale and Harvard would be 50% asian.
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2010/0...
Your point?
Yeappy doppy do!In the Asian immigrant hot spot Vancouver, the state's best university "UBC" has 50% of Asians admitted.
The white kids got left out. So they "do away" the effect of the high entrance scores of the Asians by scrapping public exam scores all together. Only school scores counts now!
Absolutely right Anon. Chrysler has a little less immunity because it's a subsidiary of Fiat (and not the US gov.), but GM cars might be downright hazardous in 5-7 years. Just like the economic news - the official figures tell you the recession is just in your imagination. There are no real problems.
Yer you get the impression Phil ‘Lets Bash Toyota’ LeBeau is enjoying his breaking news reports.
Great work by the US manufacturers....if you can't beat them (ie match quality and I don't mean INITIAL quality) then "pull them down to your level" by creating the perception that their cars are as bad as yours. Lowest Common Denominator Strategy.
Granted, Toyota hasn't helped itself here as I doubt they were able to avoid the quality slippage that seems to occur when volume/market share becomes an overriding goal. Also--their US dealers haven't had a very good reputation for service quality. That's not a surprise as they are the same American car dealers/owners we've had before who happen to now have a Toyota dealership...same polyester pants/"how much you want to pay a month?"/Jamb 'em in a car attitude that got them where there are on the domestic side. The dealers are all snakes and they only know one way to do business.
Recent experience with a relatively low mileage, easily driven Lexus that has required numerous repairs at high costs (at the dealer) puts into question the quality of engineering and parts they use on these cars.
They are becoming Americanized alright.....the quality shows it.
I drive them all, great cars, great company. Made good money off the bounce, now flat.
Wait for the next dip and go long.
Mass hysteria!
If I didn't know better, I would think the US Government is a competitor to Toyota...
Toyota foreclosures coming down the pipeline. Production plants shut now in 3 Southern and 1 Midwestern state.....
GS, JPM jumping with joy as their Toyota shorts pay off....
As some one said it here before I'd rather die in a Toyota than buy an American car.
I have driven Toyota, Honda, Mercedes. Toyota is THE BEST period.
Will never think of owning GM/Ford...
Toyota is better than Mercedes? LMAO
Really. I would take a MB with 120k on the clock over a new Lexus any day.
Ask yourself this, with Ford having FAR MORE # of recalled vehicles via their cruise control and other issues yet little fanfare, why is it that the US Government is targeting a Japanese manufacturer?
Maybe it is due to the US Gov now pwning two major US automobile companies... or perhaps that the new Japanese leaders want USA TROOPS out of the country and to close the base in Japan because of higher crime and rapes in the vicinity of the US base versus other places in Japan.
After all these years, Toyota is finally unable to pay off all the media for a positive, undeserved spin on their products. For years, Toyota has paid for positive press about their marginal products and that is why their advertising costs are more than 10 times what others in the industry are budgeting. Defects in their products, and there were many, were glossed over, if mentioned at all. Defective ball joints, Defective brakes, defective steering, rotting sub-frame construction, defective camshafts, sludging engines, failing transmissions, bad rear ends, pickup liftgates that bent easily - all are part of the extensive problems not reported in the press.
When GM was being hammered in the press about cigarette lighter buttons falling off, Toyota was able to hide their deadly problems from the world. Our American press gladly obliged since beating American idustries down was part of their overall plan to diminish American power in the world.
People were dupped into believing Toyota quality was superior to American products simply because they have very short memories and have ingrained the idea that something is not a problem if they don't pay for it. Because they didn't pay for it, they had no problem with an engine that was replaced after only 25,000 miles or frames that rusted away after 2 years. Major problems were covered under warranty contributed to this unreal feeling of quality. Toyota has the highest warranty costs in the industry and most Toyota owners sell their vehicles shortly after the warranty expires and the real repair costs come out.
I've been there in the trenches of the automotive world for 30 years and finally am glad to see the myths of Japanes quality and caring be exposed for what they really are - nothing special. America needs to wake up and begin producing things completely here in America and not just taking imported parts and puting them together using their dumbed-down directions. Don't let forty year old myths of American car deficiencies influence what American car companies are producing today.
Well said!!!!!
Now we are getting to the heart of the matter.
But wait! Justgimmethe Dough Power ranked them highest? Gimme a break! Its more of the same. Payola fucka! JD Power ranking every single product and service under the sun has ruined any credibility they might have had.
Remember the Toyota V6's that sludged up and blew head gaskets? There's a repair bill for ya!!!!!!
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