Ours was in dark blue ink though, which looks a lot nicer
Posted on 06/04/2009 5:30:27 AM PDT by CSM
Ours was in dark blue ink though, which looks a lot nicer
That’s a Navistar engine, and Ford has been battling with them (including in court) over quality problems for years. They finally decided to develop a new engine in-house. If Toyota sold a diesel pickup in the U.S., more than likely, they’d also use an outside engine supplier.
no one take MY toyota away from me.......never happen.
Nahhh, that’s a $38,000 Acura TL.
That's what I wondered. He's still stuck in old Detroit thinking, that says what people see in the showroom is the only thing that determines what they will buy. He hopes that American consumers will continue to be blind when it comes to resale value, maintenance and repair costs, and general reliability.
That's how Detroit has hosed the American public for the last three, maybe four decades, and Elias thinks "happy days are here again" for that sort of moneymaking technique. He's in for a rude awakening.
But when he helped me move to NC from Arizona in my brand new Toyota Tacoma 4x4, the first thing he did when he got back home was sell his car and buy a Toyota Sienna. Mom was next and has had a Honda ever since. (My ultra-liberal sisters drive GM cars and SUVs.)
What a load of crap. This has to be satire.
How many people here who refuse to buy an American car, bitch about Walmart buying from China?
I’ll believe it when I see it. Sounds like some phenomenally wishful thinking. I highly doubt the big three emerge as the well oiled machines the author predicts. In fact i’m fairly confident that Toyota will still enjoy better management. It also is really hard to win back customers who have been driven off by decades of arrogance and inferior products when they have found companies that have met their needs well. If i’ve had Toyotas for the last fifteen years say and everyone of them has given me a positive ownership experience I really doubt it would be that easy to get me to switch from something that has worked so well for me.
Funny how those higher-end Japanese cars look very similar.
I've been out of the new car market for a long, long time (I don't even watch tv ads for them), but this has me kind of interested again.
“I understand a lot of car enthusiasts get excited about styling, horse power, etc. Perhaps Toyota has boring designs but in my opinion most Americans, especially families, want a reliable car to get from point A to point B with reasonable comfort. The styling and other superficial traits is icing on the cake. Toyota and Honda deliver that type of car while GM and Chrysler cannot even get that first step right and never will now they are part of Obama-UAW Inc. “
Exactly and therein lies part of the problem. Some of GMs best cars have been niche vehicles like the Corvette and the GTO. Awesome cars that are as good as anything in the world in their class but they compete in tiny segments. Where GM really has needed world beating quality and value is in the more mainstream classes. It won’t do for them to be close to as good as a Honda or even just as good. They have to be clearly better to start winning lots of people back and they just aren’t yet.
I don’t care at all about cars.
I’m going to ride the Unicorn that Barack promised me. It’s going to arrive any day now.
One of the most ludicrous articles I’ve ever started to read.
I’d say they’re both pretty boring, as is the Honda Accord, Nissan Altima, Chevy Malibu...pretty much everything in this front-drive mid-size family car segment, other than some niche players from (overpriced) european makes. That doesn’t seem to bother a lot of people all that much, for whom cars are basically just transportation pods, anyways.
Good one!
“GM is ‘dead to me’.”
LOL, I like it.
If we analyze the government systems that want to control economic processes, they divide into 3.(It’s actually a gradient with “bumps”.):
communism — all economic processes owned by the state
socialism — major economic processes owned by the state
fascism — economic processes CONTROLLED by the state, but privately owned (and profits allowed)
I would suggest that China is economically FASCIST and the U.S. is flirting with moving from economic fascism to socialism.
But, the elite in China don’t have suicidal Liberal instincts as the elite in the U.S. does.
With the Illegal,Unfair and Unbalanced treatment of the shareholders in the Faux Bankruptcy of General Motors and as A Union Man oif 50 years and as an Owner and Operator of a Union Mechanical Contracting and Engineering C. I will never buy a car from GM again.
About 15 years ago I owned 15 trucks and 5 Cars all American and mostly GM including 4 Cadillacs.
I was committed to American Cars.. “NEVER AGAIN”
“I believe the term for this article is “irrational exuberance”. “
It’s just an individual’s opinion. The only fact in it is that the Corvette gives more bang for your buck than either Porsche or Ferrari.
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