Posted on 02/24/2010 12:38:07 PM PST by Kieri
(WXYZ) - The FBI is confirming raids at the offices of three Michigan auto suppliers who do work for Toyota.
Search warrants were served Tuesday evening at Yazaki North America, DENSO International and Tokai Rika. Yazaki sells electronic components and DENSO makes accelerator pedals.
Denso has released the following statement about the situation "DENSO International America, Inc. (DIAM), U.S. subsidiary of DENSO Corporation, was inspected on February 23, 2010 by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Department of Justice in regard to U.S. antitrust laws. DIAM is cooperating with this investigation."
Stay with Action News and WXYZ.com for the latest on this breaking news.
this anti Toyota troll is trying to tell us now that people got rid of 3 of them in trade ins.
yea right.
If the goons are doing this then most I know anyway are saying no way will they buy GM crap.
I’m looking for a car for the wife this year and now I have made my mind up and that is the avalon
My neighbor has a camry and I asked him abot what is oging on and he said he had a caddy before the camry and he thinks this is better driving than the caddy and this is an all round assault on Toyota to take the comp out for GM and the unions
The unions can’t even say buy American anymore as Toyota employs thousands of Americans and yet most business GM makes is overseas .
They have made a big mistake
yes and it see,ms to troll on this subject not to do with anything conservative no he works in selling cars and is stirring the pot on here to put down Toyota
Have to say it is the strangest troll I have seen for some time
Just noticed this in the news today, could this be the beginning for them?
Keep watching........it was interesting today at the hearing when they asked about why there was a different accelerating apparatus in the Japanese model than the American model. Also quite telling in 2007 they told us here in America it was “floor mats” and in Japan they shaved the gas pedal...............hmmmmmmmm. And when asked they couldnt answer and didnt deny
Nope nothing here...........
Chad
Other recalls in the past probably have gone down this same path...but Toyota has learned a lesson and has come clean and done more than other manufacturers...our government is MAD at Toyota for NOT using union thugs.
Just watch..within a few months the next non-union car company will be on the chopping block.
We have bad people running our government.
you keep saying that people have lost faith with toyota but non one on here has and I know people with Toyotas including the neighbor and he is really pleased with his camry.
He had a caddy before that and he said the Camry is better so I fail to see how you can say people have lost faith because on here and what folks are saying it different to you
cash for clunkers was democratic reform at it’s finest. It ruined what was already a bad economy for the car business for a month and a half of good sales. It did exactly what us intelligent dealers were afraid of. Drove up used car values when they werent selling anyway.
Chad
NO WAY
I had a chevy venture and a chevy conversion van and both had problems with windows.
I had a GMC Yukon XL and I had nothing but trouble for a few month until it was all fixed
I have no clue how this troll can say what he is
At this point, I’m willing to pay twice as much for a Toyota in order NOT to buy from an American car company controlled by this fascist administration.
Never seen a Ford troll before.
I read this story this weekend about a guy from St. Paul that is currently sitting in jail with a similar claim:
'I know that I stepped on the brake,' imprisoned Toyota driver says of deadly 2006 crash
The Japs have a thing called pride and I guarantee that the owners pride has been hurt unlike Govt motors.
I am certainly getting an Avalon this year for the wife and after the way the Govt/GM has done business then I will never take the chevy I have back to the dealer but have a local garage owner service it.
It is disgusting how the Govt and their sidekicks in the media have gone after a company and yet nothing about the Gm and Chrysler recalls which is over 300,000 minvans.
fascism at it’s finest today and I know it has woke a few up inthe country about this disgusting act
for the poster who sells cars and registered on here today to tell us how he hates Toyota then forget it I won’t do business with Gm again
LOL
Govt motors have been paying their union guys over time to troll
EEK
I mean after all they the white house are trying harder in the way they deliver the message to us as we just don’t get it.
ARF
There are of course millions NOT posting on here, you do realize right? Some will leave some wont. We are getting our share and I don’t have to hear anymore how great the resale is. It was time and things are never as good or bad as they seem.
I have and always will buy American cars.
Chad
PS..................I am a strange troll because I’m not one. I’m passionate and not interested in political dogma, just tired of the outlandish praise heaped on a foreign car company.
PPS please dont tell me they are an American car company they arent. Their profits and tax on profit goes over seas and they sell cars in Iran. No American car company does that. Ford also employs more American workers than Nissan, Toyota and Honda combined. That is an American car company.
No, they won’t talk about it. Now, about those bridges into Canada, time for a lot of those Michiganders to GO BACK HOME EH!@
They do make it easy. LOL
Chad,
I have leased/purchases new Toyota/Lexus/Honda/Audi products every three years for about 25 years and have had NO problems other than cosmetic nonsense. You are obviously an anti-Toyota (or anti-import) troll who knows nothing about the stellar quality Japanese (and German) manufacturers have to offer. This is telling with the high residuals/resale values in these vehicles. If you are really in the car business, you know of this jargon I speak. BTW, if you work for Ford, you’re next.
If you are a wholesaler of autos, you are, as we say in the car business, HOSED!
And so it begins.
One could see this coming.
In a sense, it is a "wag the dog" without bombs or bullets. Obama could not give an ounce of cr*p about keystone, strategic and vital US-Japan Relations. He is out to destroy it; his rather insincere bow to The Japanese Emperor in November was just for starters; for I heard no shortage of very intelligent and savvy, tea-reading Japanese say to me afterward, "this man is up to no good and we sense his insincerity. He is going to attack us soon, all the while with a smile on his face."
And I am beginning to feel they were right.
Here comes some: I've personally owned several foreign cars, a Honda and two Toyotas, and one American car.
I spent more keeping the American car rolling than the other three COMBINED.
Improve your product, please.
They WILL learn to hire union.
Every time I think I couldn’t despise this Administration more, they manage to pull more gestapo tactics.
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