With so many toyota lovers on the gm newsgroup I wanted to post this

gn man · 2006-05-14T16:27:22+00:00

My aunt always has a new lexus, doesn't keep them any longer than a few years. She took the car in for service on the transmission, a recall I believe. The dealer had the car for 1 month. After picking the car up and driving it a while she began noticing a strange noise. She took it back to the dealer and they diagnosed a bad fly-wheel. The charge for the fly-wheel repair was over $1000.00. They argued with the dealer that it did not have a problem prior to them repairing the transmission, but the dealer would not accept responsibility for the problem.Another dealer also had another of her cars in for body work after an accident. It sat on their lot for 6 to 8 weeks without repairs even being started. When they finally became upset with the dealer, the dealer had a wrecker drop the car off in front of their home beside the curb, still wrecked. They had to find another dealer to make the repairs. They live about 60 miles from the nearest dealer.My 96 chevy p/u has 267,000 miles and still runs great. And my local gm dealership treats me very well.gnman

May 14, 2006 22 Replies

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Gosi 20 years ago

GM loses more money on their vehicles annually in the US than does Toyota, or any other foreign manufacture for that matter..

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gnman 20 years ago

My wife actually wanted to buy a Toyota Camry at one time, back in 94. We went to our local dealer, which at that time sold Buick, Pontiac, GMC, and Toyota. We test drove a Camry, LeSabre and Bonneville. After driving them she decided on the Bonneville SSEi, which rode better and had many more features than the others for about the same money as the less equipped Camry. I can remember her saying the Camry just sounded and felt cheap during the test drive. We have replaced the alternator a few times but it has been a great car. We still have the SSEi with over 170,000 miles although it's just kind of an extra car.

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<HLS 20 years ago

GM actually went slightly into the black during the first quarter 2006. Some analysts still see them as being deeply in trouble, but I guess we'll have to wait and see.

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