Toyota's 1st in safety recalls for 1st time

Source: Detroit Free Press

WASHINGTON -- In a first, Toyota led the U.S. auto industry in recalled vehicles this year, thanks to its largest safety-related problem since it began selling vehicles in the United States.

The Japanese automaker has struggled with the fallout from the recall of 4.3 million Toyota and Lexus models for unintended acceleration linked to fatal crashes.

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According to a Free Press analysis of federal data, automakers recalled 15.2 million vehicles in 2009, a sharp jump from 8.6 million in 2008.

Read more: http://freep.com/article/20091230/BUSINESS01/912300358/1320/Toyotas-1st-in-safety-recalls-for-1st-time

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ever since they started building them here it's been nothing but problems.

The Japanese are never afraid to buy Monday or Friday-made cars.

they do not to recalls for production issues.

So the problem is American workers?!

of non-union labor in the South? Mississippi isn't a place with much educational infrastructure. :shrug:

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This is cheap uneducated, unprotected, southern labor. I don't understand what you're bitching about. If the employees were that bad, why didn't Toyota just fire them?

Toyotas are made by ANGELS!

But only buy those manufactured in Japan

unlike Toyota.

This is not shocking. Toyota is just like every other auto company in the world. Every company has some issues.

"Every company has some issues."

Right, but Toyota just happens to have the most issues related to recalls due to serious safety problems of any car on the US market right now. That's significant.

sickening. You would think there would be some support for our workers around here.
I do not expect this post to get much attention.
Toyota is not the best car in the world.

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:hi:

"I wonder if this thread will be ignored like most negative Toyota posts"

is yes. It's typical. Negative news for Toyota and positive news for GM gets ignored by most posters.

You seem to be personally affronted that, contra your popcorn smilie, you didn't start the hot thread you expected.

I clicked on this thread for info on the topic. I don't feel obligated to respond, esp. when the OP demands it, but FYI:

I bought my first Toyota Celica GT in 1976, and had Toyota Celica GTs right up until 1998, when I would've bought another Toyota Celica GT if I could've found another used one. They were all three of them excellent cars (all stylish too, in answer to the Mazda fanboy here). I don't remember any safety issues with Toyotas up until now. By my count that's 33 years worth of spotless reputation.


I don't know what your grudge is with Toyota, and I don't care. But if I can manage to remember your name I will remember never to post again on a topic you introduce, because apparently you think people are supposed to have the same level of interest that you do in everything and are supposed to prove it to you by posting on your thread. What a silly person you must be.

Get your facts straight before you make yourself look foolish again.

My problem isn't with Toyota, it's with uninformed DUers who bash GM and praise Toyota despite its obvious quality issues.

"I clicked on this thread for info on the topic. I don't feel obligated to respond,"

Nobody is obligated to respond but it gets annoying that all the Toyota lovers, who I watched bash GM with glee as they prayed for the company to go under, disappear when there's negative news for Toyota.

"I don't remember any safety issues with Toyotas up until now. By my count that's 33 years worth of spotless reputation."

Of course you don't. Toyota lovers worship the company and put up blinders to any information contrary to their opinion.

"But if I can manage to remember your name I will remember never to post again on a topic you introduce"

Please do. Clearly you don't have much to add to any conversation anyway. You'll save me and everyone else who does read the thread time from reading your meaningless comments.