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I’m shocked by this...shocked that it took Toyota until 2021 to beat GM.

As a side note, I’m not particularly happy to hear this news. I’d rather see profits from US car sales stay in the US. But there is no denying that Toyota genuinely cares about quality. GM, not so much.

1 posted on 07/17/2021 12:18:38 PM PDT by Leaning Right
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2 posted on 07/17/2021 12:20:04 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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3 posted on 07/17/2021 12:20:13 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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GM was stolen from the bondholders when they went bankrupt. When you buy a car from GM, you are effectively buying a stolen car.


5 posted on 07/17/2021 12:22:02 PM PDT by alternatives?
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Will never buy a government motors made vehicle.


7 posted on 07/17/2021 12:23:09 PM PDT by ealgeone
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Since Obama took the company from its owners, I couldn’t care less. It’s a communist company.


9 posted on 07/17/2021 12:26:49 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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The biggest employer in this part of Kentucky is the Toyota factory, between Georgetown and Cynthiana.


11 posted on 07/17/2021 12:29:26 PM PDT by Berosus (I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
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Toyota’s last forever. My parents only got them and my siblings have continued.


12 posted on 07/17/2021 12:29:58 PM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016 )
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i swore id never buy a japanese car....until i bought a mint Toyota Supra in the mid 1990’s....easily the best car i ever owned. I used to work on the car even if it didnt really need any work...couldnt believe how easily everything was to reach and went back together. I kept “grinding the starter” the first few weeks i had it...the motor was so quiet. I got so many compliments on that car....


13 posted on 07/17/2021 12:30:23 PM PDT by basalt
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GM stuff is mostly made in Mexico and Canada. Toyota has plants in the USA.

Every time I see an older Toyota 4x4 pickup going down the road, I want one. I had a coupe of 2wd models. Good little trucks if you can keep them from rusting in half.


14 posted on 07/17/2021 12:31:12 PM PDT by Pollard
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GM and Ford seem to think that the only market is for SUVs and trucks. If you want a sedan, you have to go with the Japanese, Koreans, or Europeans.


18 posted on 07/17/2021 12:43:59 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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I have had 3 Toyota pick ups in the last 40 years never did anything to them except tires brakes oil one clutch couple starters and batteries and rarely a bad bulb


19 posted on 07/17/2021 12:44:06 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom Hi Dad)
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About 12 years ago I bought my last Toyota.

Toyota will now do without my money.


22 posted on 07/17/2021 12:50:57 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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I’d rather see profits from US car sales stay in the US.

1. Toyota builds many of its vehicles right here in the U.S. They are probably more "American" than GM right now.

2. Toyota is a publicly traded company. The profits go wherever the shareholders are -- including right here in the U.S. In one of the great ironies of this modern global economy, a UAW worker employed by General Motors is far better off with Toyota stock than GM stock in his pension fund.

23 posted on 07/17/2021 12:58:50 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("And once in a night I dreamed you were there; I canceled my flight from going nowhere.")
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Had a 2010 Rav 4 Limited for 7 years, had 1 recall.

Have a 2017 Rav 4, not a single recall.

Try that GM


24 posted on 07/17/2021 1:05:59 PM PDT by UB355 (Slow Traffic keep right)
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Driving a Lexus suv since 2009, almost 200k now.

Never a problem. Runs like a top.

Thinking about going for 300k.


27 posted on 07/17/2021 1:13:01 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (“Fraud vitiates everything.” )
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I once had a lot of sympathy and good will for GM. I don’t anymore.


30 posted on 07/17/2021 1:27:17 PM PDT by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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Another corporation that has to make their politics known.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/toyota-will-stop-donating-republicans-who-objected-election-certification-n1273407


33 posted on 07/17/2021 1:44:24 PM PDT by suthener ( )
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General Motors has been a national embarrassment for decades now.


34 posted on 07/17/2021 1:45:01 PM PDT by Last Dakotan
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Reading the comments.

How quickly everyone forgets. That is what makes me think all this chatting is worthless. Just a week or so ago Toyota announce that it would withhold donations to any congress people who suggested election fraud. Not one mention of that here.

But you little stand for nothings just keep buying your Toyota’s.


37 posted on 07/17/2021 1:52:01 PM PDT by Revel
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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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