Wednesday, February 24, 2010

And Now a Word from a Satisfied Toyota Owner

Lew Rockwell writes:
Morning Joe, like the rest of the kept media, held its daily two-minute hate of Toyota. Clearly this company must be destroyed for being foreign and surpassing US Government Motors as #1 in the world. So a firm that makes far, far better cars than GM, Ford, or Chrysler–all government motors–has to be put through a show trial, with the judges a bunch of bribe-taking congressmen. The CEO, a man who has contributed greatly to the wellbeing of the human race, must be arraigned before war criminals. There was one moment of truth on Morning Joe when Erin Burnette, with trepidation, mentioned that Consumers Union still rates Toyota #1, and the automotive press like Car & Driver are attacking the whole Obama-UAW-GM scam. The protectionist-mercantilist-DC exceptionalists jumped on her, of course.

UPDATE I should note that I own a Toyota, my second, and my next vehicle will be one too.

47 comments:

  1. My wife and I just bought our sixth consecutive Toyota. The firm manufactures an excellent product.

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  2. If you want my Tacoma you'll have to pry it from my cold, dead hands.

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  3. I had bought my first Toyota (Tacoma) 9yrs. ago. I will ALWAYS own a Toyota. This truck is has been great to me.
    I wish I could say nice things about American cars/trucks, I really do, but I can't.

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  4. I've had my Corolla for 13 years now... never had a problem with it, still driving it to work daily. Toyota is the victim of corporate sabotage an I wouldn't put it past a man like Ed Whitacre to engage in such behavior.

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  5. After 150k safe miles on the road, it's time to replace my Honda Accord. It followed a well-loved and much-missed Mazda. The next car will be either an RX or Prius. Toyota's service is the envy of all car owners. I have never owned an American car, and following the criminal spectacle by the Obama's xenophobic toadies, I never will. I want a car that will keep me and mine safe, not a rah-rah piece.

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  6. I've owned two toyota landcruisers which span about twenty years. Never once was I left stranded by a breakdown. I travel all over Australia's outback. Absolutely the best built vehicles for the average person. I'd sooner roll over dead than buy a US built car, give me a toyota anytime.

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  7. These are my thought exactly. A show
    trial before war criminals that should be subpoenaing the Fed and sending the banksters to jail for life. Instead in a sickening attempt to prop up a bunch of former US auto makers that are now mostly off-shored they try to scare us from Toyota.How vulgar and desperate these traitors
    are in this show trial. Next they
    will stare us in the face and tell us that Al Qaeda is making
    Toyotas.

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  8. You know what this is really about, don't you?

    First, the Japanese completed their Indian Ocean refueling obligations with the coalition of the "billing" and did not reup. The Japanese want nothing more to do with the Ziotista War Crime.

    Second, the towns people surrounding Okinawa as well as another prospect US base site in Japan are up in arms and want the US military to end their occupation .

    The war criminals and bribed altar boy shaggers in congress are attempting an end around by intimidating Toyota into pressuring Japan's government to re-up and rejoin their never ending War Crime and Terror jaunt through sub-Asia.

    The dems want Toyota to play the open shop game so that corrupt union officials can dump more coin into their altar boy condom funds.

    We have 3 Toyota's and a Scion - no troubles ever - just change the oil. The defective parts were made by North American suppliers.

    We've allowed our representatives, not leaders, to bankrupt us so they could pocket bribes off the mass murder a million plus Muslims industry in the last few years and crushing their first born sons' testicles and raping their daughters. The US is about to collapse and all those Bail Out Fairies and K-Street Johns inside the Beltway want to do is preen their feathers in front of C-SPAN cameras with sanctimonious pretense.

    Is that the way food behaves before it's slaughtered for feast?

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  9. Toyota seems to be the victim of some set ups here
    l believe there is a good chance the cars that crashed were tampered with by Mossad or CIA mechanic assassins

    But if China agreed with the illegal sanctions against Iran and was a good zionist puppet government, like most of the Western world, Toyota wouldn't have had any problems, and Obama wouldn't have bin ordered to meet CIA asset the Dalai Lama by his zionist puppet masters

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  10. Well, it seems like our scum bag congressional representatives are trying to get at the leadership of Japan by attacking Toyota.

    http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1337.htm
    US Warns Japan They Will Destroy Toyota First, Honda Next

    I have two wonderful Toyotas, one as old as my 1995 lousey Chrystler van that gets 15 mpg vs. the Toyota's 26 mpg.

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  11. Just surpassed 200,000 on my Tacoma 4x4. Just replaced the original clutch. Engine still runs like the day I brought 12 years ago.

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  12. lol propaganda, people who buy yodas, are gay, and fuck your outback shit, a ford truck would own that.

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  13. And then break down.

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  14. I'm a Toyota Prius owner, since '05. Never had a problem - knock wood. I don't believe the hype.
    I'd buy another Toyota hands down. FWIW.

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  15. Let us not forget that many Japanese cars and trucks are made by American workers right here in the USA. They are made by American workers who are not members of the UAW. The result is as close to a controlled experiment as we ever see in the social sciences. Unions and the weak management that caved in to them over the last 50 years destroyed the American auto industry.

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  16. It's important not to confuse the reactions of the press with what actually occurred in the House hearing, available on CSPAN. There is something brought out in the hearing which is significant even for those of us, like my family, who drive and enjoy the relative lack of trouble of Toyota. My Accord, for instance, never lost that new car tightness, never developed those rattles and squeaks after the first six months.

    What came across to me, however, was a company which may have fallen behind the times with electronics, however sound its construction. It was also a company which is from a culture which is far from capitalist. The Japanese culture is second to none in protectionism.

    Sometimes you have to be taken to the woodshed for something you covered up or refused to notice. I think the Congress raised some serious issues about putting something on the road with black boxes.

    I also feel that Japan as a nation of carmakers must be feeling China breathing down its neck, not to say Korea. I would hate for them to stop making these cars, so it behooves them to correct what is demonstrably a problem for which they have so far supplied an incorrect solution.

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  17. Sorry - my Accord is a Honda, not a Toyota, but they too are being scrutinized for the same flaws. It's other people in the family who drive Toyotas.

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  18. Interesting. I owned a Ram 1500 and experienced the EXACT same accelerator "sticking" Toyota owners claim. The problem is in the CPU and that's over a grand to change. Good luck with that. I traded it and lost a bundle.

    I bought a Mercedes and love it.

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  19. This is a Shakedown and Warning to Japan, to hold onto our worthless FED IOUs 'OR ELSE'

    Cant have Japan getting any crazy ideas, like China.

    Toyotas are arguably the most reliable and safest cars on the road.

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  20. I like how the article missleads, Ford is not government owned, Only the former general motors is. They are the worst of the lot. And you same people that tout how good toyota is are the same that will gripe and bitch when your job is lost. You idiots don't even relize buying foreign cars as well as anything else foreign screws yourselves

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  21. I bought a used 1997 Toyota Rav4 and a 1997 Buick LeSabre in the year 2000. The Buick now has about 160,000 miles on it and is really shows its age; however, the Toyota Rav4 has over 200,000 miles on it and runs and looks as good as the day I bought it 10 years ago when it only had 45,000 miles on it. Last July 2009, I purchased my first new car in 30 years, and it is a 2010 Toyota Corolla. I live in the hilly country side of Northern Virginia and drive this Corolla very hard, but it still continues to run perfectly. The original posted article is absolutely correct, Toyota is being slammed to diminish its status as the World's leading car manufacturer. But no matter how many stones our govenment throws at Toyota, they cannot dent their reputation nor the millions of satisfied customers that own and will continue to buy another Toyota. BTW: Buick is OK, but I want a car that will run for more than 10 years.

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  22. "pry the TOYota from my cold dead hands" sounds like an idea to me. give me a car with brake override anyday. most jap cars don't have it

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  23. To mustangfivelitre @ 9:44am

    My Toyota was manufactured in the United States, but there aren't many American cars which are completely made here any more. Even the Ford Focus is going to use a Volvo engine, so, welcome to the One World Market. I also doubt that a Mustang 5L will run even half as many years as an 8-cylinder Toyota. People will always buy cars based on reliability, and not their patriotic duty to buy what you ignorantly call an American car. The truth hurts, but tough s**t. BTW: Toyota employs over 30,000 Americans to run its USA Plants!

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  24. now a word from dis-satisfied us worker. someone will pry that TOYota from your dead hands and we can only hope it happens

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  25. the bushie govt. did this to you but you are all too stupid to see it. I hope every car that japs build end up in the junk where they belong. If it was GM that built these cars, all of you would call for GM to be closed down. Close all TOYota plants and send their asses back home.In Japan we cant sell our cars because their Govt. will not let more than 3% of their market to be taken over by us. Where as we let them sell all they want.

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  26. you all know what this is about. stupid americans waving the US flag all the while buying jap junk Us car makers don't have cars racing out of control and killing people like the TOYota's do. I hope you or someone you love and care about is not killed or injured by these @##$%ed up cars. If you hit me i will sue you and them untill piss runs off your heads.

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  27. all i hear is crickets and no reply

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  28. The "culture" issue brought up by a gang of corrupt politicians makes me scoff. Especially when, oh they're doing this for a leader who got elected by race baiting.

    If they're going to protect the people, why haven't Blankenfeld or Mozillo been taking the same heat?

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  29. btw, the best car I had was a Toyota. The UAW is in thug mode because they don't know any better.

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  30. To anonymous @ 10:32am

    One of the primary reasons that American cars don't sell in Japan is because American car manufacturers cannot be bothered to make vehicles with right-side steering. However, the Europeans' would not have a problem in selling cars in Japan if they could compete will the low-cost, quality, and performance of Japanese-made cars. There is also a limit of how many automobiles & trucks that can be fit on the island of Japan. The question that I have regarding ANY manufacturing in the USA... do we have anything to export other than military invasions and the tools of War? Our government already allowed and promoted the outsourcing of most of our manufacturing jobs years ago, and they continue to do so. To answer many of the posting whiners who object to Americans buying foreign cars... tell our Government to increase tariffs on all imports, which would include American Corporation goods that are made in their outsourced manufacturing facilities; in NON-UNION sweat-shop places like Indonesia, China & India. But they won’t!

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  31. PLEASE get your FACTS STRAIGHT:

    GM: Took government money. Government Motors=YES.

    Chrysler: Took government money. Government Motors-YES.

    Ford: DECLINED government money. Government Motors=NO!

    Ford is the last American automaker.

    Nothing against Toyota, who make fine vehicles. Myself, I prefer Honda, but Toyotas are fine vehicles.

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  32. I have nothing against Toyota but Ford did not take any bailout money and they posted a profit unlike the other American car companies. I am a proud owner of a Mustang and my roommate has a Corolla which has never experienced any problems. I think the tarring and feathering that the media and congress is doing to Toyota should have been done to Wall Street and The motor companies that took any bailout money.

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  33. I have a 2009 Corolla - no problems to date (knock on wood). We have had only Toyota brands in the family since 1976.

    They are robust and good vehicles hands down

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  34. No plans to change from Toyota - if this is indeed some clandestine MO to discredit a universal brand so that locals can benefit, then consumers ought to see it for what it really is

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  35. Funny.. the ads on this page are for Chevy. How Ironic. Go Google ads!!

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  36. first let me point out that I worked in a GM plant. We built right hand drive cars sent all over the world. 1000s of them.Our quilty at 63 out 100 defects. no jap car can come close. CTS (*GM)makes right hand drives all day long. look at our trade deficit with Japan. 1 trillon us. They will not let us sell there. A35,000 CTS will cost you 70,000 us just to get it (CAR) in the country but yet they can sell here for under cost and their govt. gives them money to make up losses as long as they get more US market share. Do we do that for US cars made here and sold there. NO we do not. so let me get this right you will buy a car whose cost is kept low by their under cutting the US market. I will go across the street and pay more for a car made in the US by a US company which makes brakes that work ALL the time not just sometimes and I never shop at walmart. but you should see the parking lots of Walmart all jap cars at stories full of jap junk. Like I said if you hit me with your TOYota I will sue you and TOYota untill piss runs off their heads.

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  37. One congressman suggested Toyota not to deal with Iran. Uh...Who sold weapons to Sadam, Trujillo, Duvalier,
    and other dictators?

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  38. don't let facts get in the way of the bullshit lies. lies that ford took no money. Ford went to the bank almost a year before our great depression and got all the money they needed to run their car company but when GM and others went to the banks (which had been bailed out by the US which is full of retards)) the lines of credit had been cut. Ford did not need the Govt.money. How did FORD know that the banks were closing up shop. The same way TOYota was able to sell you dum asses their useless excuss for a car made by a company that makes lawnmowers.By the way do the brakes work on their lawnmowers. just asking

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  39. CRICKETS ALL I HEAR ARE CRICKETS DON'T LET THE BAD TRUTH STAND IN THE WAY OF A GOOD LIE. GOD KNOWS YOU ALL VOTED FOR BUSH. NOT ONCE BUT TWICE. CAN ANYONE SAY FLAG WAVING RETARDS DRIVING TOYotas WITH US FLAG DECALS. AS A GOOD MAN ONCE SAID YOUR FLSG DECALS WON'T GET YOU INTO HEAVEN ANYMORE

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  40. What baffles me is why Toyota - and the Congress whom supposidly cares about us - will not explicitly state: "if your car suddenly takes off like a rocket PUT IT IN NEUTRAL!"
    Does Toyota make the best -- you bet it does, especially the older made in Japan models. But they need to publish their software source code for public review -- all cars makers should. End Black boxes!

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  41. I'd buy the worse car Toyota ever made over the best (actually least worse) car Ford ever made.

    And for all the complete morons who don't know what to do if the accelerator pedal sticks, take the car out of gear! If you can't figure this out you deserve to die.

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  42. I've owned nothing but Toyota's for 30 years. Land Cruncher's, Celica's, Forerunner's and, currently 2 Camry's
    never had a problem, normally get rid of them somewhere between 200K and 250K. Always rent a Ford/GM/Chrysler when traveling and did so recently when the wife's Camry was in the shop getting a new bumper (hint: when the tow hook in front of you stops, you should too) We rented a Ford, think it was a Taurus. What a piece of Shit!

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  43. Oh, by the way, for those morons singing the praises of Ford trucks.

    The vehicles of choice in Africa, where your life depends on not breaking down are Land Rovers and Toyota's.
    Ever seen the Discovery Channel,
    Never seen a ford or GM truck there yet.

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  44. I will tell you why Ford made a profit, I live in Tucson, Az and see Union Pacific haul train loads of Fords everyday from Mexico. I own a Honda Civic and love it. At least it is assembled in Ohio. Mike.

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  45. l feel like a dill, Toyota is a Japanese company, not Chinese, like l said in my previous comment

    anyhow l still smell a rat and believe Japan is being set up by the zionist powers to be for some reason or other

    Chinese - Sheeesh - l just lost all credibility, and l thought l was on to something lol

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  46. To the anonymous UAW At February 25, 2010 2:24 PM

    I watched an episode of England’s, Top Gear, where three of this show’s hosts came to the USA to test drive three new American Muscle cars. Their analysis of our workmanship, by comparison to European cars, was that USA cars, such as the Corvette, are made by bubbas on a robot assembly line, while in Europe; cars like the Ferrari and Porsche are made by Master Craftsman.

    I must admit that I had high hopes for the Saturn Assembly Plant, which was promised to make cars as good as Japan’s; however, one of these Saturn Plants was recently shut down while Japan continues to build new plants in the USA to take-up the slack of a free American car market.

    One of the biggest reasons why the big-3 American Car manufacturers have failed is because of the UAW. The UAW workers receive excellent benefits and also a good percentage of your annual income during production plant shutdowns. You also earn far greater pay than superior assembly line workers at the USA plants owned by BMW or the Japanese.

    The UAW attempted to get plant workers at the BMW Plant in Spartanburg, S.C., to join the UAW, but BMW offered “profit sharing” to their workers as a lucrative incentive to remain non-union, which is what the workers accepted. Of course, if GM workers decided to take ‘profit sharing’ verses your union protections; you would be suffering greatly from lack of profits/sales.

    I had leased a Chrysler Concord and a Dodge Ram Pick-up in 1997, in which both vehicles were utilized as business vehicles. The transmission on the Concord crapped-out at 60,000 miles, and the Ram’s transmission crapped-out at 80,000 miles. Even though I had serviced these vehicles in accordance to the manufactures’ scheduled maintenance intervals, the transmissions were later admitted to being defective and, 1 in 5 Chrysler vehicles had these defective transmissions installed - - they would only last long enough to survive their warranties.

    Chrysler once made the slant-6 engine, which was probably one of the best engines ever made, and GM’s 3.8 V-6 is probably another superior engine; however, if the rest of the vehicle’s drive train, hardware, and carriage fail, what good is a running engine? This is why American cars & trucks have failed to keep pace with foreign car sales – - let alone the UAW which sucks the lifeblood from the big-3 Detroit assembly plants. Perhaps this is the reason why many of our American cars are now made in Mexico?

    You also stated: “…and I never shop at walmart. but you should see the parking lots of Walmart all jap cars at stories full of jap junk. Like I said if you hit me with your TOYota I will sue you and TOYota untill piss runs off their heads.”

    My response to your perplexing, uneducated, typo-ridden diatribe is: Wal-Mart is the second largest employer in the USA, after the USA government, which is number one. The USA shopper determines the best bargains, which is why Wal-Mart and Toyota are at the top in sales (I shall avoid making any comment regarding the quality of our national government).

    I stand corrected in the fact that GM makes right-side steering vehicles… but they still won’t be able to compete with Japan within the International sales market.

    Also, if I hit you with my Toyota, my car insurance will pay for any damages. But if I hit you, it may be the result of your GM car being broken-down and blocking the express lane of the freeway. Perhaps GM should include the provision of orange cones and flares with each car they sell?

    BTW: If you have a computer, next time, why don’t you try to expand your typing skills by using grammar/spell check?

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