[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

This is all TOO funny! What a total manipulation of the auto market! I simply can NOT believe Toyota REALLY has problems that are all that bad. What a way to try to revive the U.S. auto market. U.S. manufactured vehicles have had defects for years and nary a word is said. Then, it is all over the news that Toyota has ongoing problems. How convenient. Next, it will be Honda. Then, Nissan. After that Kia. Then Hyundai. What dishonesty! Someone in government must have shorted the foreign vehicle stocks (i.e. Hillary and the cattle futures markets).

[jwparkerjr]

This whole thing is going to get seriously convoluted. Now, every time there’s an accident involving a Toyota the driver will be able to blame it on the pedal problem, even if it had nothing to do with it.

[votemout]

The best way to teach those evil doers a lesson is to buy a used Toyoata and refuse to take it in for the fix. That will show Obama who’s boss.

[HamiltonJay]

Narry a word said??? Are you kidding me, US automakers RECALL they don’t play games trying to avoid them. Oh some have in the past and been burned.

What do you expect you have audio of an entire family dying due to a DESIGN FLAW that the company KNEW about and lied about, like it has been doing for years.

Things that would be recalls for anyone else, Toyota shoved under the rug, now its biting them on the arse.

All manufacturers are going to have issues, cars are complex machines. Toyota covered it up, and thats why its in the mess its in.

As to this never happening to US automakers, really? Are you kidding me? Never heard of the Corvaire? Pinto? Exploding Gas Tanks in Pickups?? US companies have had their share of doing such things too, and have rightly been attacked for it.

Attacking Toyota for a design flaw it clearly knew about, and clearly lied about isn’t unfair, its long overdue. Toyota’s legendary “quality” has been far more propoganda than reality for quite a long time. They have been playing games for a long long time to keep their numbers down on issues, recalls etc, and it finally bit them in the butt.

I’ve owned many cars over the years, and nearly every one of them have had a recall on one thing or another, usually its something minor. Having a recall isn’t why Toyota is in the tank, its because they have as a corporation been covering up known issues for years, and many of them not so minor.

Bubble’s been popped, and you are likely to see a lot more issues with Toyota’s being raised to the level they should have been initially. They knowing put millions of cars on the road with a potentially fatal flaw even after they were aware the flaw existed, believe me, this wasn’t the first time they played fast and loose, and all sorts of other things will come to light, guaranteed.