More Toyota news - they do care

[Falcon67]

About the bottom line, like any good giant industrial conglomerate... ;D

http://money.cnn.com/2010/02/21/autos/toyota_document/index.htm?hpt=C1

"NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- A Toyota executive boasted of the company saving $100 million by negotiating a limited recall for Toyota Camry and Lexus ES cars over a problem that could cause unintended acceleration."
....
"Among other "wins" listed were "Avoided investigation on Tacoma rust" and helping win delays in various new federal safety regulations."

That ought to get things in perspective.

[studemax]

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Great.
America tries to build cars like the Japanese do.
The Japanese try to run their business like Americans.
That's a fine "how do you do?".

[JRoberts]

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Great.
America tries to build cars like the Japanese do.
The Japanese try to run their business like Americans.
That's a fine "how do you do?".

....and the consumer get screwed. AGAIN!

[Eliteman76]

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I am not happy about those hurt or worse because of this, but at the same rate I am pleasantly happy with how this deal is just snow balling and putting the screws to them.

The domestics went through this for years, right or wrong.
Nice to see the media bashing the heck out of an import for a change, but to say that gas pedal is an equipment recall and not a vehicle recall is total BS.
I like the article bringing to light the BS on the tacoma frame issue as well.

[SuperBuickGuy]

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I'm sure the frame issue is just waiting in the wings....

wouldn't you love to be the middle manager who drafted that document - he/she didn't have the power to approve the settlement, so had to write out the pros and cons of settlement with the US Gov. Of course, now, he/she is going to be fired for drafting such a document (even though it was their job to lay out the business case) so toyota can have plausible deniability (love that term)....

..... and the media wins again, politicians keep their jobs "because they investigated the issues", and American workers (not the ones at Toyota) can celebrate because they're selling more cars. >

ever wonder why nothing ever gets solved?

[dieselgeek]

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The domestics went through this for years, right or wrong.

It would take a heluva lot more recalls than what Toyota has had recently, to equal the same problems the Domestics had.

Buickguy seems to hit it dead on, IMO.

[IRONHEAD]

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Sorry ,guys.. this is nothing new..
they have been doing it for years..
only NOW they got caught..
the media and other (think j.d. power/ cus/reports/etc)have looked the other ways, for whatever reason..(I got my idea on that)
they been doing this all along.. you think a land of people that hold human life in such low regards.. care about the human driving their product...
HAHAHAHHAHAHAHHHAA/. is all I got to say about those that think that..
remember Toyota IS backed by Japan's government...and not just for lower % loans..
Japan is a very "long term " group of people..
we forgot Peril harbor... they didn't forget whom bombed them..

[dieselgeek]

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yeah that makes sense. The Japanese hate people, so all this time it's been a coverup and now they've been foiled! Haven't I known this plot before? Scooby Doo episode perhaps?

[IRONHEAD]

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yeah that makes sense. The Japanese hate people, so all this time it's been a coverup and now they've been foiled! Haven't I known this plot before? Scooby Doo episode perhaps?

read it again.. scoot "low regards for human life"

[Brian Lohnes]

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How to the Japanese hold human life in low regards? Taoism has been a driving cultural force in Japan for thousands of years and it centers around life, longevity, etc.

[IRONHEAD]

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How to the Japanese hold human life in low regards? Taoism has been a driving cultural force in Japan for thousands of years and it centers around life, longevity, etc.

thats not the stories you get from the ones that left and are here now..
ask around there is tons in quincy/randolph

[ghustler]

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" They do care"
Yea, they do now.
Obama said GM was to big to fail and now you see his plan.
If Toyota never came over here the recession would have never been here in the first place!
Everybody was just fine buying the big American 3 until the dragon had to enter the pic!
I hate Toyota!

[Silver68RT]

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http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/toyota-recall-electronic-design-flaw-linked-toyota-runaway-acceleration-problems/story?id=9909319

This is the smoking gun for the electronic defect they've been denying. Now they get to recall EVERYTHING they've built with an electronic throttle, probably a stop sale on everything until they come up with a fix, and their credibility is now zero for saying it was only floor mats and pedals.

There's also a criminal investigation under way, and the SEC is looking at them too.

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-toyota-subpoena23-2010feb23,0,3835714.story

[Turbo Regal]

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How to the Japanese hold human life in low regards? Taoism has been a driving cultural force in Japan for thousands of years and it centers around life, longevity, etc.

Not always. See "Kamikaze" in a dictionary.

[SpiderGearsMan]

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THE SUSHI IS GETTING WORMY