Posted on 06/07/2006 10:27:19 AM PDT by G. Stolyarov II
Toyota is planning to voluntarily recall about 2/3 of the Prius cars they have made.
Someone in Japan learned that when you turn the steeling wheel and drive real slow into a curb, it can break something in the steering mechanism. Trust me, you drive very slowly in Japan a lot, with the steering wheel turned all the way the left or right.
Usually, its bad business for a car company to do something like this. However, Toyota is sucking it up, making the changes on their own dime BEFORE a tire blows out, or a car rolls over and kills someone. By doing so, Toyota earns points for doing the fix.
That's the way a quality company does business, I think.
What do you think?
Dude give me break, I am a graduate student in Manufacturing at kettering university. I am also a field grade US Army Acquisition Officer. I love how everyone talks about china and other asian countries. Wake up, the communist chinese are not our friends! If you think that buying cheap products from China-Mart is a good thing, you need to read a few more econ. books. What we need is more innovative companies less gov regulation, a can do american attitude. We also need pragmatic consumers and politicians. Since when do we consumers need more dollar stores?
Beckwith I am with you. They butchered Americans and got away with it. I don't want to make this a JAPanese- VS US discussion. However, I hear a lot of talk about less reliance on foreign energy, how about less foreign reliance on foreign companies? More competition is good, I would like to see more of it in ASIA.
I've also found that Ford apparently makes very safe cars these days, since my insurance quotes for new Ford vehicles are noticeably lower than quotes for comparable vehicles built by their competitors.
You would think that people wouldn't be buying cars from the same company that made the Jap Zeros that attacked Pearl Harbor but go figure.
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