To: eraser2005
Toyota often announces a 'recall' even if no one has complained. Toyota wants really good cars out there. And they have earned a superb reputation.
I do not own a Toyota but would NEVER buy a car from a company who knows of a deadly problem - the Pinto gas tank comes to mind - and compares the cost of the fix to the estimated claims from the problem if they don't fix it.
Ford Lied - People Died
Bravo Toyota!
To: Leo Farnsworth
"Toyota often announces a 'recall' even if no one has complained"
Where's that graphic of the BS meter when you need it?
To: Leo Farnsworth
Yep. Ford never calculated the immense cost of a bad reputation.
9 posted on
01/19/2007 6:49:32 AM PST by
Moonman62
(The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
To: Leo Farnsworth
Let's not forget an even more recent example - the Ford truck cruise control fires - where people have ACTUALLY died, and houses have ACTUALLY burned down, and Ford still didn't start recalling trucks until a lawsuit was threatened.
12 posted on
01/19/2007 6:51:12 AM PST by
Spktyr
(Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
To: Leo Farnsworth
My '92 Toyota 4X4 truck was recalled for a faulty steering rod or something 2 yrs. ago. I was reluctant since there was only 2 or so cases of bad steering reported in how many millions produced let alone abused off-road. I had the truck at the dealer for some other service so I had them do the recall. What a difference it made! 175,000 miles and it drives like a new truck. I'm waiting for Toyota to put a diesel in their new Tundra.
15 posted on
01/19/2007 6:57:41 AM PST by
stevio
(God, Guns, and Guts made America. A politician against any of the 3 doesn't get my vote. (NRA))
To: Leo Farnsworth
"...the Pinto gas tank comes to mind"
Are you referring to the Ford Pinto with the exploding gas tank that they put the exploding Firestone 500 tires on? /s
To: Leo Farnsworth
"Toyota often announces a 'recall' even if no one has complained. Toyota wants really good cars out there. And they have earned a superb reputation."
Bull! And the class action lawsuit against toileta covering about 3.5 million Toyota and Lexus vehicles a couple weeks ago? Was that a voluntary too Of course that was quite low key in the hate-America media.
To: Leo Farnsworth
My Duramax will make a Toyota pickup look like a Soap Box Derby cart any day, anywhere.
They are wannabees at best.
43 posted on
01/19/2007 8:06:00 AM PST by
PSYCHO-FREEP
(Show me a 'true' Conservative and I'll show you someone with bad knees)
To: Leo Farnsworth
Not referring to any corporation by name, but I tend to think that a corporation heavily subsidized by its own national government is in a better postion to absorb financial setbacks -- like a product recall for example -- than a coporation with zero government backing.
180 posted on
01/19/2007 6:07:59 PM PST by
Mr J
(All IMHO.)
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