The media seems to love giving Toyota grief because they had one recall. GM, Ford, and Chrysler seem to have dozens of recalls each decade. The fact of the matter is, if you buy a Toyota, the chances of you getting hurt because of a sticky gas pedal are still very small. On the other hand, if you buy GM, Ford, or Chrysler, the chance of you getting a lemon is near 100%.

Toyota has had far more than one recall, among which are fuel lines routed too close to EGR passages (which could crack, leak fuel and potentially catch fire) and steering linkage issues (which could cause loss of steering).
People are just looking for someone to be mad at for whatever reason they can find.

[edit on 2/16/2010 by abecedarian]

There is no attack here, these stories are pretty much common for any recall especially ones that affect parts that could possibly create a major disaster on our highways to do anything less would be irresponsible.

Toyota has no need of help from anyone they are doing a bang up job of hurting themselves. This is what happens when you make it to the top you get complacent and lazy in your designs and engineering. And it is apparent that Toyota has done just that, in addition to being slow responding to the problem when it became apparent learn from GM much?

If it meant one less douchebag painting " TOY" on the back of his truck I would burn toyota's factory to the ground with my own hands.

Originally posted by Jovi1
Toyota has no need of help from anyone they are doing a bang up job of hurting themselves. This is what happens when you make it to the top you get complacent and lazy in your designs and engineering. And it is apparent that Toyota has done just that, in addition to being slow responding to the problem when it became apparent learn from GM much?

The engineering at Toyota is the best in the world.
Go to Consumer Reports.
As far as reliability Toyota always gets very high marks.
As far as safety, the testers are AMAZED at the amount of
quality of Toyota. If you are going to be in a car crash
Toyota or Lexus are the best.
They just need to fix this gas peddle problem.

I know many people with newer-new Toyota cars and trucks and they in turn know more people. I have asked and none of them have experienced problems. I thought this a few days ago, that it was the US government trying to discredit Toyota so they can sell more government motors vehicles.

Between this and the stupid cash for clunkers program they "Obama/Gov" are trying to transform the auto industry.

There is a huge shortage of quality used cars in the US. This is due to the C4C and also because there have been so many storms this year that have caused vehicles to be taken out of service due to accidents. I have friends who are dealers and they are saying that in about two months it is going to be very hard to buy quality new "used" inventory from the auctions.

Even with the poor economy when no-one is buying anything, people still require transportation. It just seems convenient that at a time when we are running out of good used cars/trucks that the admin wants to discredit a quality car maker "Toyota"
This is also at a time when "hopefully" the economy appears to be improving (this is a whole other subject)

With the appearance of a better economy people will start buying new vehicles because they need them and can't find good used vehicles. Thus discredit Toyota, make GM look better sell GM cars and look like the hero who saved GM.

But who knows it all could be coincidence