It’s worse than that. This is all about unionizing Toyota’s US plants. But, it’s also about the idiotic Japanese system of management, where the primary goal of each management layer is to not embarrass the next level higher up.
Find the Wozniak article about the Prius. There ARE some real acceleration problems here, and if you get nothing else from this discussion, it’s never buy/ride in a car that you can’t directly control all functions of.
My first new vehicle was a Toyota truck. I drive a Tacoma now (bought used). And when the time comes, I’ll get another Toyota. If I can find one that’ll go from under 2K RPMs to over 6K in under 2 seconds while actually driving, I’ll take it to the drag strip…
I bought a new Tundra in 2008. I will buy another.
Read a lawyers blog the other day about the Kalifornia Prius sudden acceleration debacle that basically said, “Have we forgot “the finger in the chili lawsuit” or some such.
All of the wannabe actors are crawling out from under their respective rocks.
March 8th, 2010 at 11:37 am
Didn’t they learn when Dateline got into trouble for putting igniters on the frames of GM pickup trucks?
Or, should I ask…does the media ever learn?
March 8th, 2010 at 11:45 am
learn, care, what’s the difference?
March 8th, 2010 at 11:57 am
I thought that the science was settled on “Auto-made acceleration”….
It seems that ABC was hiding the decline in RPMs…
March 8th, 2010 at 12:27 pm
Great, just like Global Warming.
March 8th, 2010 at 2:11 pm
Hmm. Why am I not surprised?
*spit* Mainstream media. Buncha schlebs.
March 8th, 2010 at 3:16 pm
It’s worse than that. This is all about unionizing Toyota’s US plants. But, it’s also about the idiotic Japanese system of management, where the primary goal of each management layer is to not embarrass the next level higher up.
Find the Wozniak article about the Prius. There ARE some real acceleration problems here, and if you get nothing else from this discussion, it’s never buy/ride in a car that you can’t directly control all functions of.
March 8th, 2010 at 11:33 pm
My first new vehicle was a Toyota truck. I drive a Tacoma now (bought used). And when the time comes, I’ll get another Toyota. If I can find one that’ll go from under 2K RPMs to over 6K in under 2 seconds while actually driving, I’ll take it to the drag strip…
March 13th, 2010 at 9:01 pm
I bought a new Tundra in 2008. I will buy another.
Read a lawyers blog the other day about the Kalifornia Prius sudden acceleration debacle that basically said, “Have we forgot “the finger in the chili lawsuit” or some such.
All of the wannabe actors are crawling out from under their respective rocks.