Toyota’s Bad Day

The Truth About Cars ^ | June 1, 2009 | Ken Elias

[rintense]

Toyota and Honda will likely benefit the most from all this. And Ford.

[numberonepal]

There’s zero chan[c]e I’ll buy a GM or Chrysler car in the next ten years, and probably ever.

Same here. I have never knowingly purchased a Pepsico product since the deal they made with the Ruskies. That was a long time ago and I still avoid their product line.

[Wyatt's Torch]

Found it on the Toyota Nation site...

[USCG SimTech]

Being government owned, they may also choose to compete using the tax code, legal code, etc

Exactly! Change the rules for all companies that are non-union is next in the works, I predict.

[HamiltonJay]

Sorry, but I agree with the author, their is no more boring car on the planet than the Camry, without question the most boring family sedan in the marketplace. Putting a few more folds in the sheetmetal doesn’t change it.

Give me Fusion anyday.

[HamiltonJay]

The Fusion is a great car, Ford has quietly and FINALLY been putting the quality and reliability that they’ve had in their full size vehicles into their passenger cars with stellar results. I do wish they would have moved the FOCUS to the new platform that Europe has instead of just putting new sheetmetal on the old one in the US.. but what can you do?

Maybe ford has finally figured out, put those cool stylish cars you’ve been keeping over in EU in the US and they may just sell.

[CSM]

“I do wish they would have moved the FOCUS to the new platform that Europe has instead of just putting new sheetmetal on the old one in the US.. “

It is coming......

[mrsmel]

I’m not a “car person”, all I know is that my Avalon, and my Camry before that, have been the best, most reliable cars I’ve ever had. I have never had a breakdown with either one, nothing ever goes wrong. And I get good enough mileage for the driving I do. Once when I went to my mother’s in Virginia from Mississippi, I got a little over 400 miles on one tank of gas.

[mrsmel]

Same here. Even if I didn’t already like my Toyotas anyway, I wouldn’t buy GM on principle.

[mrsmel]

He must’ve been paid by the Slick Barry administration to write this propaganda.

[ALPAPilot]

Do you have any more info on that or know of any websites that have chat rooms for solving any of those problems?

[Thorin]

It’s enjoyable reading an article not filled with hatred for American manufacturers for a change.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks to US and Canadian taxpayer support, GM and Chrysler are about to get a new start. They'll enjoy fresh balance sheets, with minimized legacy liabilities and serious money earmarked for new products. (The taxpayers are paying for Fiat to develop cars for North America; you didn't really think that the Italians would take this risk on their own did you?) Ford, by dint of luck or smart management, borrowed what it needed years ago to make the transformation outside of court oversight. By the end of this year, all three Detroit automakers will be restructured, resized to match production with demand, and re-energized. They will reenter the market as the lowest cost producers inside the U.S. market, with slimmer, trimmer product lines. These automakers are getting ever-closer to 100 percent capacity utilization.

Thanks grellis.

[erman]

Yeah, because every citizen in Michigan is somehow responsible for Goverment Maoters, and every UAW member is a thugocrat or bootlicker.

Up yours, pally.

free country.... live where you want. Yeah, you are responsible for the place you live. I've lived in Pennsylvania, California and on the water in Florida.... all because of training and jobs. Kids got old enough and I did want them to be raised where I mainly grew up. Texas. We've got our flaming libs and faux conservatives, but it's the last bastion for freedom. My kids say the pledge of allegiance to the Flag and the Texas flag, have prayed for our soldiers in school and met them, had Christmas decorations and most of the boys and girls they know have used a weapon to hunt or for plinking.

The thugocrats that run Michigan are immune cause enough nipple people and union thugs/bootlickers figured out a way to vote money to themselves and that's the end of the game. Cops, Firemen, teachers, all the bureaucrats that run the previous civil servants, the UAW and then the parasites..... all get their money from your pocket and keep draining the "corporate" devil.

What I hate is when yankees come down from sh#tsville or come east from Calish#tnia and whine about how backward and intolerant we are... and how all these great social programs "helped" where they came from... and how guns are "bad" and we shouldn't be killing murderers but "really punishing them with a life behind bars".

yawn..... as far as "Up yours, pally."... Ok... just keep living the Michigan Miracle or is it the Michigan Dream.

You all should raise taxes on corporations to 40% of the gross in order to "help the little guy" and punish the "fat cats"... bwahahahahahaha... yeah, do that. Raise some taxes.. oh... and sue somebody, that's the ticket.

Remember to bow to Dearborn where all the nice tall mosques are.

[webschooner]

Mr Elias, slowly now ... set down the bong, and if you can still walk, move away slowly ...

[grellis]

blah blah blah blah blah...hey, idiot, I don't give a damn where you've been, remember where you are, n00b. Free Republic is a conservative news forum. Freepers come from every state in the union and every corner of the earth, even those littered with liberals. Try to keep that in mind the next time you feel like insulting a bunch of us.

[CSM]

Some of us are willing to fight the fight instead of running scared!

How’s that for hyperbole?

[erman]

remember where you are, n00b

no you're the n00b

[Antoninus]

Is this guy kidding? Toyota will have no fear of "Government Motors." Soon they will be competing against the US equivalent of Yugo. And the result will be that GM and Chrysler's market share will plummet. They'll hang around because the feds and state governments will insist that all fleet purchases are of Government Motors' cars.

The Japs, Koreans, Chinese, Germans and Ford are licking their chops at the opportunities this gives them to rack up market share.

[erman]

Some of us are willing to fight the fight instead of running scared!

How’s that for hyperbole?

I like that. Good luck. I hear Michigan is nice in the summer up in the upper peninsula. My only exposure was at Henry Ford Hospital and getting off one exit too early. The only reason I ever left Texas was for work related stuff till I had a nice job lined up and now I'm where I can at least fight the good fight.

We have libs here, but enough conservatives to tell them to f#ck off. They'll also never take our guns or ammo. I can't even remember the last time someone tried to pass "gun control" in Texas.