This is Truck Month. See your local Toyota dealer today.
Ruwaway Prius on the evening news is probably instilling more fear than GM is.
See your local Toyota dealer today.
until they start flying down the road...out of control....then see a FORD dealer!
I visited my local Toyota dealer in Feb. and took delivery of a brand spankin’ new FJ. My 4th Toyota.
...Hey Toyota!!...STFU
With the full force of the U.S. Government behind them, why not?
I’d love to buy something and there are a couple of Fords I like, but I don’t really need a new vehicle. I still haven’t been able to break or wear out my ‘98 4WD Tacoma. I still get compliments for the shiny paint.
Toyota is a great company. Ford too. I am running—not walking—away from ANY company run by OBAMA.
I do not trust this media/government attack on Toyota.
Problem? They’ll fix it. The rest is hype.
This bears repeating. I have relatives who’ve been in the wholesale auto trade for 30 years, mainly buying and selling used Hondas and Toyotas. None have ever seen or heard, or spoken with anybody who has ever seen or heard of one of these incidents. They’ve also asked at pretty nearly all of the D.C. area Toyota dealerships, and NOBODY has ever seen or heard of one of these incidents. This shit is fiction. Honda and Toyota have been making the world’s best cars since at least the late 80s.
First, it was the evil GM bondholders then evil GM dealers, and now it’s evil GM competitors. I wonder if these media hit pieces are listed as GM marketing expenses.
Toyota has been using predatory tactics against GM, Ford and Chyrsler for years, using the quality issue. Payback is a bitch!
Barack Obama and his team are working overtime to get people in this country fighting. Toyota vs GM. Bank vs Bank. Wall Street vs The Little Guy. Mortgagor vs Mortgagee. Unions vs Non-Unions. Tea Party vs Lefties.
Lots of distractions going on. Sow the seeds of strife and disorder than fundamentally change America as we know it. They are slicker than the Clintons.
“”As an American citizen, it is tough on my part to pay tax dollars to an entity that can turn around and use those tax dollars to get my fellow American citizens to not do business with me,” Paul Atkinson, who owns Atkinson Toyota in Bryan Texas, and is President of the dealer council, tells 1200 WOAI news. “
“As an American citizen, it is tough on my part to pay tax dollars to an entity that can turn around and use those tax dollars to get my fellow American citizens to not do business with me,” - Any Tobacco exec, Insurance exec. Banking exec or importer / exporter, fast food chain owner, gun-owner, gun shop owner, gunsmith, gas station owner, oil exec, etc....
Yes. The government works against some business. It’s not fair, but it’s not new. As a person in power, I would like to see you (and others) sit down and do something about it.
I’m subject to several penalty careers from the government myself. Although not on a big scale (It’s not like it costs me thousands anymore) I still have come up with a plan to make the impact of an over-bearing government as slight as possible. I buy my cigarettes as cheap as possible, patronize oil companies that I like, and avoid chinese products as much as possible.
The car debate will be heated for years to come, as it has been for years before. Quality, patriotism, blah blah blah. Who makes a superior product ? No one. They are all subject to a handful of handicaps that prevent them from making a good product.
Gun manufacturers should build a car. Give it weaponised quality control, precise engineering, and watch how the best car out there, for both quality and patriotism, costs the buyer well over $200,000. And don’t forget to not finance it either. Start playing lotto - because it’s the only perfect scheme to making and spending money anymore.
If this keeps up, one of GM's competitors *will* start playing up the "Government Motors" theme, probably with "Close Enough For Government Work" or "Parts Manufactured By The Lowest Bidder" advertising campaigns.
On a related note, I haven't seen any of the Kia TV ads with the Obama lookalike recently. Gee, I wonder why?
That's business.
A couple of weeks ago, someone ran the numbers- with the number of accidents due to the stuck accelerator versus the number for a similar problem with a GM. It was something like .001% of the recalled Toyota vehicles actually had the accident versus the GM problem had a .1% problem- 1000% higher- yet, the GM issue never made the news. (those numbers are from memory, don’t quote me on it).
Using the full force of the US government to destroy a thriving business enterprise purely for political reasons. Now THAT’S not only frightening, disgusting, disgraceful and just plain WRONG, it is PRECISELY what we can expect in the future from Marxist/fascist, would-be dictators. And of course, these are the SAINTLY people who will decide whether our lives are worth saving from disease! Anybody still wonder why gun, ammo, gold, silver and MRE sales have skyrocketed?
Go rent the “Untouchables” and learn from it.