Posted on 01/04/2022 10:43:41 AM PST by basalt
Toyota passed G.M. in world sales in 2009...now this. I remember when japanese cars were ridiculed and called "rice burners"....unions ruined the American car companies.
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never understood why they buried the alternators underneath all the A/C units...cant even see it...just absurd.
the result...make everything out of plastic that we can,...whoever heard of making the door handles plastic...the thing you use every single time....
I would take a good old Buick over a Toyota any day. Sadly they don’t make them like that anymore. GM has gone down the tubes.
The Electra 225 was a tank, ours ran forever
i had a brand new 1986 z 28 camaro....the car simply NEVER ran right...mechanic told me the radiator was designed too small for that motor...turn on the A/C...car over heated every time..drove me crazy...carpeting glued in....intake manifold cracked for no reason...literally rusted away right in front of me. Never bought another American car again...
Camaro's turned to junk in the late 70's.
That's true. They have a very high quality product line across-the-board but the Toyota isn't always the best in every class. The first car I ever bought was a 1976 Toyota Corolla. The third best vehicle I've every had. It was a nice car but surpassed by two vehicles I have owned. A 1986 Ranger was the second best vehicle I've ever had and I traded it in for the best vehicle I've ever owned - a 2001 F150 that is my daily driver. Twenty-one years and still purring along.
Many Toyota sub compacts develop a leaking head gasket issue at around 200k miles.
“im in Detroit...i had numerous family members that were U.A.W....the stuff they got away with was astonishing....stealing time....sleeping entire shifts making $90 an hour....drinking...drugs...shame on all of em.”
I saw it at the Ford glass plant in Nashville. They even had a secret room with TV and kitchen that the bosses didn’t go near. Bums.
I’m convinced that GM wants to make pickup trucks, Escalades, work vans, and Corvettes. Everything else they make is to offset the Fedzilla mileage diktats.
In ‘93 bought the wife a brand new Pontiac grand prix. When it came time to change the battery I disconnected the old one and installed the new one and the computer went completely stupid....wouldn’t even idle. Fortunately I had a step brother that was ASE mech for a local dealership. He had to reprogram the computer and warned me that it would happen every time. So from then on I had to use a cigarette lighter plug with a 9 volt rig just to keep the computer alive while I did the battery swap.....I’d never seen a vehicle do that...or since...what a terrible electrical design. SMH
I think it's more common than you think. My cars were all like that.
“iv’e understood that from day 1...that Japanese stressed quality...if that meant shutting down the line...then so be it....”
That’s a big piece. So was upstream management. They’d see where the failures were and spend money to fix them, even though they were often well past warranty. With US companies, they’d set a lifetime goal - maybe 8 years for an alternator, and if bearing failures started showing up just after that, not their problem. With the Japanese, they’d investigate and figure out how to fix it and get it off the list a leading cause of failure...and then move to the next one, and the next one. “Good Enough” isn’t in their vocabulary.
“it’s more common than you think. My cars were all like that”
What make(s)? Were they all GM?
BMW
The guys on Top Gear had a whole load of fun trying to destroy a Toyota truck.
In terms of the engine being able to start...they failed.
Apparently not. There is (was?) a joint venture between Toyota and GM called NUMMI that qas unionized but Toyota US is non-union.
There’s a plant in Tupelo, MS. Don’t know which model the make now but it used to be Corollas.
There’s a plant in Tupelo, MS.
That’s right next to One-Pelo!
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