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Post by Justin Thyme on Feb 5, 2010 12:38:20 GMT -5
Has cost cutting gotten the best of Toyota? Is the brand irreparably damaged? Or is this just something that any car company is going to find itself in eventually?
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Post by pictureman on Feb 5, 2010 13:18:22 GMT -5
Boy, Toyota's sales are way off right now - I sure hope our ole buddy Joe Prebul doesn't lose his new job...
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Post by Justin Thyme on Feb 6, 2010 10:33:39 GMT -5
Okay, I'll give Toyota this on the sales being way off, they took half their models off the menu so that, in itself, is going to throw sales way off. Let's see how their sales are when those models go back on sale.
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Post by mikeydokey on Feb 6, 2010 10:39:21 GMT -5
Best thing all this trouble with Toyota could do is to throw a little money back at "OBAMA MOTORS" MMM MMM MMM. Maybe Obama could then pay back the American people (you and me) the money that he stole from us to buy a car company that he had no business buying, and to turn his attention back to being friends with terrorists (William Ayers) and Communists (Chavez and Sean (booger eater) Penn).
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Post by Scarlet&Gray on Feb 6, 2010 18:45:34 GMT -5
Such a well thought out post there Mikey. Listening to Limpball has really opened your mind.
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Post by mikeydokey on Feb 6, 2010 19:08:14 GMT -5
And it was written on a weekend too, very observant, little penis man.
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Post by Scarlet&Gray on Feb 6, 2010 20:42:42 GMT -5
Must have got extra time on the PC for good behavior.
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Post by ScarlettP on Feb 7, 2010 6:57:23 GMT -5
I drive a POS 16 year old Buick. I figure I don't have a dog in this race.
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Post by Police Moderator on Feb 7, 2010 8:58:46 GMT -5
Sunday, Feb. 7, 2010
Signs ignored in problems with Toyotas
The Associated Press WASHINGTON -- When Peter Boddeart's Lexus lurched forward and rear-ended another vehicle in Fauquier County, Va., earning him a police citation, he wrote to federal regulators imploring them to look into his case "before someone ends up seriously injured or killed." That was in 2003. The years since have seen hundreds of drivers' complaints about unwanted acceleration of their Toyotas, six inconclusive federal investigations, multiple reports of deaths and repeated denials from the automaker that it had a major problem on its hands. That's just the sort of bureaucratic inertia Barack Obama pointedly criticized as a presidential candidate. Yet his administration was without a federal highway safety chief for most of its first year and, like the Bush administration before it, missed signals in the Toyota case. Read more: times free press |
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Post by gridbug on Feb 8, 2010 12:21:42 GMT -5
I drive a POS 16 year old Buick. I figure I don't have a dog in this race. You have a dog in the race, it just has three legs, one eye, and the mange. I know, I've seen your POS... |
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