Re: Toyota loses its way

Editorial - Toyota's Problems Not Good News for Mississippi.

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All they have to do is list US made models.

They make a LOT more models than this.

hold on there and step back a bit - you're "discussing his allegation as if it could be anything other than complete bullshit. why?

Toyota Recall Update #29: Corolla, Matrix.

i think that before you start giving him ANY #1, you need to step back and pay attention to your own experience first. unless there was some other fault already present, there's no way our friend damaged a toyota transmission simply by letting it shift at full throttle. cab drivers full throttle shift in their toyotas all day long, all over the world, [as of course, do many consumers] and those transmissions cope just fine. have you noticed how many "concerned user" postings there are in this group archive about failures? "but all i did was put my foot down", etc? none. there are literally millions of #2's out there, but suddenly, our friend pops up and pops off with just the kind of unproven but inflammatory "allegation" that the other paid sociopaths are posting. bottom line, he's making it up.

You two need to get a room if you're going to sploog all over each other.

He drives them all the same? Sure.

I'm just going to kill file you and save us both a lot of wasted typing.

i have a better solution - don't post fabricated bullshit, then people won't call you on it. guaranteed to work.

My buddy the Ford dealership tech does appx 80% warantee work. My buddy at Toyota does appx 15% warantee work.

Thats why I still hold Toyota in much higher regard than Ford.

Ben

He's pissed all he could afford was a Tercel and was trying to make a Drift racer out of it.

You're getting some low-spec inexpensive cars that have already been beaten on like, well, rental cars by everyone that's driven them before.

In other words, they weren't that good to begin with, and they've been severely abused besides.

nate

BTW this has NOT been my experience with recent GM products, my complaint is that they downshift at the slightest provocation, and also the torque converter locks and unlocks constantly (it unlocks whenever you lift your foot completely off the accelerator, for example, and then re-locks a few seconds after you get on the gas, which drives me freaking apes**t and also lets the car essentially freewheel down hills)

All this hectic action can't be good for the transmixer, I think I will have the fluid changed in the Impala at its next service (should be

nate

In message , Nate Nagel writes

I agree with you, plus the fact that you most probably look after your car.

Drifting in a FWD? I thought one got FWD to avoid drifting. There's nothing in the whole world like hanging the back end out and feathering the gas to make the car drift sidways across the parking lot.

I suppose winding the motor to redline to force a shift, "a few times a week," is somthing one might do while trying to drift the rear end. No, that wouldn't work.

Four or five seconds?!?!?!

My Subaru takes about a half an hour!

Are you kidding??? I've always driven my American cars that way, I LIKE accelerating. I've never had a domestic go bad due to this, only the Toyota. I'm not saying every Toyota will fail, it's just MY experience. If a car can't take full throttle shifts a few times a week it's a piece of crap that's severely under designed.

Hardly. It was left over from the in-laws when they died. And they put gentle miles on it. Even so, it blew the head gasket while they had it. Then the Transmission failed. All before 110,000 Toyota quality????