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Toyota Just Toppled GM as America’s Best-Selling Carmaker
MotorBiscuit ^ | July 13, 2021 | Savannah Keaton

Posted on 07/17/2021 12:18:38 PM PDT by Leaning Right

Toyota tops many automotive lists. Even if one of the brand’s vehicles doesn’t take the number-one spot, the Japanese automaker often boasts the most well-reviewed vehicles. And now, Toyota has done it again, this time by beating General Motors in U.S. sales.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: gm; hybrids; toyota; twofaced; youaskedforit
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To: Leaning Right

It depends on why you are really here. When the democrat get done having their way then no one will even have car.


41 posted on 07/17/2021 2:23:21 PM PDT by Revel
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To: Leaning Right

Since when was GM even the top?


42 posted on 07/17/2021 2:29:38 PM PDT by CodeToad (Arm up! They Have!)
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To: Leaning Right

In a related story....

We considered Jeep when we were looking for an SUV recently but the quality is still pi$$ poor. And the quality has not changed over the decades that we have been in the market for a new car off and on.

It is truly sad and I am frustrated. However, I am not a fool — American car companies. wave the flag with their right hand while they are picking your pocket with the left.

Sorry, I want to “buy American” but the Big Three continue to rip their customers off.


43 posted on 07/17/2021 2:45:10 PM PDT by dhs12345
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To: Leaning Right

“But my goodness, every thread doesn’t have to be political.”

BLASPHEMY...HERETIC!


44 posted on 07/17/2021 3:57:19 PM PDT by suthener ( )
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To: alternatives?

*** GM was stolen from the bondholders when they went bankrupt. When you buy a car from GM, you are effectively buying a stolen car. ***

Correct me if I’m wrong, but here’s how I remember it in straight forward terms:

GM filed for bankruptcy;

Obama fired the CEO and put his own CEO in place;

Obama ordered that the stockholders get only 25 cents on the dollar for their investments - take it or leave with only a few days to decide;

Obama gave the UAW over 50% control of GM;

giant GM emerged from bankruptcy in only one week.


45 posted on 07/17/2021 4:15:02 PM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem by far: most of the news media is agenda driven, not truth driven.)
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To: sockmonkey

“I think the quality of their paint has gone downhill.”
It’s not just Toyota, everyone else has paint issues. Mandatory paint formulation changes brought to you by your government.


46 posted on 07/17/2021 5:29:55 PM PDT by wjcsux (RIP Rush Limbaugh 12 Jan 1951- 17 Feb 2021. We really miss you. 😢)
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To: libertylover

I don’t recall the precise details but the stockholders should have gotten nothing since there was not enough value to pay off the bondholders. The bond holders should have gotten whatever was left and control of the company. The UAW should have gotten nothing.

Instead the UAW and shareholders received less than they should, and the bondholders much less than they should have. Obama put pressure on the bondholders to accept his terms.

It was totally against contract law and people should have refused to buy any corporate bonds.


47 posted on 07/17/2021 5:44:22 PM PDT by alternatives?
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To: freepertoo

I had a Corolla with 296K, had to get rid of it due to corrosion. Got a 09 Prius in part due to the communist/Borg takeover, I knew gas was going to increase significantly.

I really like it and would get another one.


48 posted on 07/17/2021 6:31:05 PM PDT by phormer phrog phlyer
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To: Leaning Right

Toyota makes a superior product. GM stopped giving a crap about their customers 40 years ago.


49 posted on 07/17/2021 7:27:12 PM PDT by JoeRender
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To: Leaning Right

Toyota has “gone Woke” and refuses to make any further political donations to any candidate who questions whether the election was rigged.

So they can pound sand.


50 posted on 07/17/2021 7:33:48 PM PDT by Paal Gulli
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To: Paal Gulli

BINGO


51 posted on 07/18/2021 8:52:11 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: alternatives?
GM was stolen from the bondholders when they went bankrupt. When you buy a car from GM, you are effectively buying a stolen car.

On principle, I refuse to buy a vehicle from any automaker that took bailout money from the TAXPAYERS back in 2009.

I'll never buy another GM or Jeep product, period. My last Grand Cherokee was my LAST grand Cherokee and my 2003 GMC Envoy Denali was my LAST GM product.

I'm a Ford F-150 guy now.

52 posted on 07/18/2021 8:56:23 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: dfwgator
GM should have been broken up.

So should've Chrysler/Dodge/Jeep/Ram. Instead, they were illegally seized and sold to Fiat to become Fiat/Chrysler/Dodge/Jeep/Ram and now Stellantis.

No way I'm ever going to drive a Stellantis Grand Cherokee. My last GC was my LAST GC. Thank God Ford didn't take bailout money because my 2019 F-150 3.5L Twin-Turbo is one hell of a vehicle.

53 posted on 07/18/2021 8:59:34 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: wjcsux
It’s not just Toyota, everyone else has paint issues. Mandatory paint formulation changes brought to you by your government.

As I understand it, it was a combination of the paint formulation changes and issues with paint adhesion on aluminum surfaces.

My 2013 Grand Cherokee had an aluminum hood. Anyone who works in a body shop can rattle off the vehicles and parts of them that have paint adhesion issues on the aluminum surfaces. Dodge/Chrysler/Jeep/Ram seem to be leading that list from what he told me. Honda, Toyota, GM and finally Ford round out that list. Mostly hood surfaces, Honda also has issues with the top and trunk lids on their vehicles.

54 posted on 07/18/2021 9:04:03 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: phormer phrog phlyer

My Prius is corroding a bit, too.


55 posted on 07/18/2021 9:42:17 AM PDT by freepertoo
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To: usconservative

Aluminum is very difficult to coat with anything due to the fact that it corrodes very quickly. Aluminum oxide forms on the surface once you clean it off.


56 posted on 07/18/2021 9:53:46 AM PDT by wjcsux (RIP Rush Limbaugh 12 Jan 1951- 17 Feb 2021. We really miss you. 😢)
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To: sockmonkey

Good point. I agree.


57 posted on 07/18/2021 10:08:48 AM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016 )
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