Conspiracy? No one has to buy a Toyota. People sure as hell realize they don't have to from GM or Ford. It's their car they're trying to sell, and they should be free to sell it at whatever prices they want, in addition to being free to talk about that fact. Conspiracy! How far we've fallen indeed...
Well, you don't have to buy a car at all if you don't want to. That doesn't mean it's not a conspiracy, though.
Actually, since it was only the bonehead at Toyota who said it, and did it, it probably doesn't yet qualify as a conspiracy. Add a bonehead at Ford or GM who takes him up on his offer and raises their prices, and you might have a conspiracy.