Get the point yet, Troll?
Toyota has had ONE recall, involving 2.3M vehicles.
Count up all the cars over all the years of GM recalls. If you look long enough, you can find well over 2.3M vehicles recalled by GM, spanning lots of models.
Stop trolling, asshole.
WASHINGTON -- When owners of Lexus sedans began reporting harrowing crashes involving stuck accelerator pedals in early 2007, Toyota told U.S. safety regulators there was no safety problem with its floor mats
-- but it would send owners an orange warning sticker just to be sure.
The flaw has since been linked to at least 12 deaths, and last week, Toyota expanded its recall over floor mats to 5.3 million vehicles. As with a separate recall of 2.3 million cars and trucks for sticky pedals that also could cause sudden acceleration, the automaker downplayed early warnings of both problems.
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You are forgetting the recall for virtually every truck Toyta sold in the US for around 5 years becasue of defective ball joints. Or recalls for rusting frames. And recalls for numerous other defects. Toyota is hardly the model of excellence you like to pretend they are.
Trying to defend Toyota by saying they are no better than GM is a weak defense.
It is clear from numerous press report that Toyota knew there was a problem with the accelerator pedals at least three years ago. Rather than address the isssue at that time they pulled the usual Toyota tactics of denying, lying, and trying to blame the Customers. When are peopel going to get it - Toytoa doesn't give a hoot about the Customers as long as they blindly fork over money for second rate crap.
I don't much care for the sort of hyperbolic reaction to the actual problem I am seeing in the press. BUT, this is a major scandal. Not becasue of the honest design error, but becasue of the incompetent response and attempt to cover up and shft blame.
Ed
Toyota has been damaged by this, no doubt. I suspect that Toyota will take a hard look within its organization and try to straighten out the lack of managerial proactiveness that resulted in this loss of quality.
They should do so, at least.
Had GM listened to the complaints of clients and responded strongly, maybe it would not have had to seek protection of bankruptcy.
I think that Toyota has, still, been more honest than GM in dealing with problems.
Just like GM should have.
It will be interesting to see how Toyota responds to this, and how their response differs--or not--from how GM responded to all the shit they brought down on themselves over the years, shit that resulted in the current GM situation.
When Toyota was only selling hundreds of thousands of vehicles in the US, it was much easier to control built quality.
The reality of the fact that ALL manufactured products will ALWAYS have and average of around 2% of things that can go wrong, is setting in. Rest assured things WILL go wrong, that is why they all offer a warranty, including the $375,000 Roles Royce,
Now that Toyota is running with the big dogs and selling millions, it is a whole new ball game and the old adage that, what can go wrong WILL go wrong, is coming home to roost.
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