Is this really true? All of the 2010 Highlanders I looked at are made in Japan and they are on the recall list. So are 2009-2010 RAV4s. The only US/Japan split is see is for Camry's. Otherwise the recall affects Toyota produced in Japan, Europe, and the US. Maybe if your Camry was made in Japan, it might be true, but it seems they are constantly expanding this recall....
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The announcements came hours after the company added a further 1.09 million vehicles to the tally of cars involved in its US recall. It is thought that at least 75,000 vehicles will be recalled in China.
To me it sounds awfully suspicious that Toyota is all-the-sudden doing as bad as the big 3.
I would agree with someone who said; "Toyota needs to remember they're a car company and not a finance company".
I just repeated what Brian Williams said on the NBC Nightly News Wednesday.
It was bound to happen. I said something about this years ago. You make 1.2 million cars a year, with a 1% defect rate. That's 12,000 cars with defects. All of a sudden you have 12 million output per year, you're now at 120,000 defects. Then you have a situation that comes up where the same defective part is spread across model lines, be it a bad accelerator or bad programming, and that's amplified even further.
I had a feeling something like this would happen when I got in a brand new Camry in 2000, a loaner while my Corolla was being fixed, and the power window jammed on the way down...
However, I believe you won't see this happen at Toyota again for quite a while...if ever.
I think it has a lot more to do with Toyota's very rapid growth.
I would have to agree 100%.
WHAT?!?!?! I AGREED with Jeff!!???
I was saying exactly the same thing when I was getting my car inspected this morning. In a effort to become #1, they just plain went too fast.
Er, shoot. Maybe I should rephrase that...
dr_jeff found these unused words:
Rate of growth ususally results in supply and manufacturing problems, not, as may seem in this case, a design problem. Across board in many models, cable or FBW, so not linked to something 'temporary'.
I'd be looking at the computer.
Yeah, and it is designing cars and trucks for many different models.
Rapid growth also results in culture problems, which is what Toyota seems to be suffering from.
dr_jeff found these unused words:
'Wrong' computer ... throttle system!
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