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LOL!!!
Unfortunately, the manual didn't have a passage stating what the driver should do once already in the midst of having an accident, which is exactly how the majority of UA events (well, if you believe those making the claim of vehicle UA, anyway) end up.
Your anti-Toyota bias is (once again) showing.
But, thanks for the laugh...
I still don't know why he won't sell his Lexus and Sequoia! :P
They look good sitting in my garage. I have not filled or driven the Sequoia since April 15th. I like driving the new to me Nissan Frontier much better. All around better except as a people hauler. I did start it and wiped the dust off the Sequoia the other day. Not sure what I will do with it. The Lexus is for Sundays only, and the occasional trip to the San Diego Zoo. Not to worried parking the old pig in a parking lot.
the new 'jetta' could screw up things for everyone.
Corolla sales: YTD 118,000 Ford F Series 193,000.
i think there is more room for incentives with an F Series.
That Sequoia is a really cool driveway ornament. Especially if you wax and polish the outside.
I think you can file PNO (planned non-operation) here in CA. But of course the crooks in Sacramento still want some money, even for that. Can't escape feeding those unions!
UAW upset that Toyota is adding American jobs in MS while shutting down Fremont, CA. I guess they forgot that the Fremont shutdown was a GM decision?
The UAW continues to marginalize themselves and they are too stupid to see it.
You are going to see some real gnashing of teeth when Tesla with Toyota support opens the Fremont plant back up with Non Union workers. You are right. The UAW just does not get it. They have negotiated themselves out of a job in many places. I would not expect Toyota or any other auto maker to build a new factory in a non Right to Work state.
Beginning in the mid 1980's, manufacturing started moving off-shore, due to things such as NAFTA, the "opening" of 3rd world options for manufacturing, etc.
Some facilities did unionize during that time period (remember the "Look for the union label" tune in the commercials funded by unions at that time?) primarily as a tool to forestall outsourcing of textile manufacturing. Obviously, it failed in the end.
As far as we could see here in SC, nobody gave a tinker's damn about the lost jobs in SC that moved overseas. In the 1990's, BMW moved into the upstate area, providing decent paying jobs in a clean work environment. In fact, the BMW facility is most likely in the top 2% of US plants in using the latest technologies and minimalizing polution (65% of the energy used in the plant comes from methane gas from a nearby landfill - 8 miles away, carried directly by pipeline).
And, SC (Charleston) has recently secured the second Boeing assembly plant in the US, which also looks very promising in the years to come.
Both of these facilities were aided by lots of government handouts (low/no taxes on facilities, etc).
No doubt, the lack of unionization also helped.
As for the old textile mills, as far as I can tell, every one left in its wake a toxic waste clean-up site, costing the taxpayer to make these places safe.
I've often wondered how many of the UAW workers (and Big-3 management, too) that are always crying for us to "buy domestic" ever gave any thought to buying domestic when it came to textile related products 10-20 years ago. And, I also wonder exactly who the Big-3 expected to be able to afford buying their products, as they took every opportunity to move production off-shore in order to save costs.
This isn't an attempt to disparage the Big-3, the UAW or anyone else. I simply recognize that there are a lot of facets to these issues. And, if one company moves its production off-shore to maximize profits, it has little impact. When they all do it, there isn't anyone else left that can afford to buy their products.
At the same time, I would much rather fight a trade war than a "shooting" war.
There has to be a compromise somewhere.
As the story goes, Henry Ford recognized his workers had to be able to afford his cars, so he lowered prices and raised wages. But, Henry also introduced work-flow management, attempting to drill every last bit of productivity out of each and every worker... a big reason the UAW came about. I wonder what Henry would think if he were alive today...
Ford Motor Company was the last major automobile manufacturer to accept the UAW. Old Henry Ford was a corporate terrorist who used his own private police force lead by a thug named Harry Bennett to opress his workforce. Old Henry Ford published an anti-Semitic newspaper, accepted a citation from Hitler, and drove his own son Edsel to an early grave. I think old Henry Ford would love to be CEO of Wal~Mart.
Speaking of textiles, Toyota got its start as a loom manufacturer.
Mazda was a trademarked name used by General Electric and others for incandescent light bulbs from 1909 through 1945; Mazda brand light bulbs were made for decades after 1945 outside the USA. The company chose the name due to its association with [Ahura] Mazda, the transcendental and universal God of Zoroastrianism whose name means "[Wise] Lord " in the Avestan language.
The company licensed the Mazda name, socket sizes, and tungsten filament technology to other manufacturers in order to set a standard for lighting. Bulbs were soon sold by many manufacturers with the Mazda name attached, including Westinghouse. The company advertised their new tungsten bulb standard with paintings by Maxfield Parrish.
The company dropped the campaign in 1945 in the face of competition from Japan. Today, the Mazda name is mostly associated with the Mazda automobile manufacturer of Japan. The Mazda trademark is now split between the Japanese manufacturer where it applies to automobiles (including automobile lights and batteries) and General Electric for non-automotive uses.
http://www.nj.com/business/index.ssf/2010/06/us_carmakers_top_quality_ranki.html-
However, the superiority is still intact from credible sources, like CR.
:lemon:
You have to wonder how they plan to pull that off. With only a handful of states with UAW workers, who are they going to hire for the picket lines? Maybe get ACORN involved. The Unions are treading on thin ice as it is. People are getting fed up with over paid public union employees. Many see the UAW as the major cause of GM going under. And the subsequent cost to the US Tax Payer. Rather than stir up the populace more they should be negotiating their contracts to meet the fair wages Toyota is paying their people. If Toyota was so bad to work for they would have signed UAW cards and voted the union to represent them. The UAW has tried and failed many times.
Overall, Japanese brands averaged 108 problems per 100 models surveyed, a tie with U.S. domestic brands
Read more: http://www.autonews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100617/RETAIL/100619882/142- 4#ixzz0rVu8eKCs
Still an excellent result for the domestics.
Let's see if that's also true for the Durability Study, which is still dominated by Japanese brands.
Bua-ha--ha-ha!
Good one.
Huh?
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
http://www.thorlo.com/ws6/video_view.php?video_id=11
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
http://www.goodcarbadcar.net/2010/03/jd-power-reliability-dependability.html
IMHO this is more signifant by far because this is when vehicles go out of warranty. Who cares if the manufacturer has to pay, or if it's a recall? I care about out-of-warranty repairs that will cost me money.
Sweet, all 3 of my cars made that list. :shades:
They compared the USA brands to Japan+Korea.
It would make more sense to compare country to country, i.e. USA vs. Japan. Not USA vs. Asia.
Didn't I just read that somewhere?
IQ is 90 days, first 3 months under warranty. It's an early indication at best.
I wanna know how it'll do after the warranty expires...
I understand now. Thanks.
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
USA 108, Japan 108.
I want to see that many goals in a soccer match.
That would make it a lot less boring. I have never seen the reason people get excited by Soccer. They run back and forth for it seems like hours without anyone making any points. I guess that is why the horns. To keep people awake.
Not so; this is the latest 2010 JD Power Dependability Study results:
Brand Problems per 100 vehicles
Porsche 110
Lincoln 114
Buick 115
Lexus 115
Mercury 121
Toyota 128
Honda 132
Ford 141
M-B 142
Acura 143
Hyundai 148
Cadillac 150
Infiniti 150
Subaru 155
Industry average 155
In top 5, 3 American; 1 each of EU and Japan
Pull the goalies!
Well, I can think of a few reasons. You don't really care how much the manufacturer has to pay under warranty to fix things, except that warranty costs (that is SKY HIGH) warranty costs is one of the reasons the Big 3 went under and required bailouts; so maybe we should care since our tax money funds GM & Chrysler warranties.
2nd, you have to waste a lot of time and gas, and mileage to and from the dealer over and over to get warranty work done. Trust me, I've had a Big 3 car and although the out of warranty costs is what really made me hate it after the warranty expired, I'd say 40% of my hatred stems from how much wasted times with breakdowns and other problems I had with the car. Wasted time, wasted gas, wasted effort and energy. Don't forget being left stranded.
I do agree, however, that initial quality and 3 year quality do not measure reliability or dependability, as that is a long term measure by definition, and long term is 5 to 10 years, not 0 to 3 years.
JD Powers is a joke.
Yep, even a dying brand is more reliable than Toyota....
Toyota is more reliable long-term then Mercury could ever hope to be, on avg of course. If Mercury is so great, why is it another dying brand? huh, answer that one! Brands that are reliable, make profit, have competitive models, etc don't have to be shutdown! Since it is being shut-down, tells me that Mercury sucks!
But I do think its a smart decision Ford is making since Mercuries are pratically rebadged Fords, something GM has lots of experiencing with as I recall and Ford doesn't want to make the mistakes GM did :P
There would be no Cadillac left if not for the Escalade. It saved the brand plain and simple. The only thing they sell I would drive. So Escalade may drag down the numbers on JDP. They bring up the $numbers that really count when selling vehicles.
I've had relatively similar luck to you and your Caddys with the MB I have owned...but I have been careful to avoid certain cars, and on the E55 bought a warranty to take care of a few teething issues. I can't complain.
Here's one article:
http://businesscenter.jdpower.com/news/pressrelease.aspx?ID=2010034
Toyota continues to perform well in long-term dependability and garners four segment awards-more than any other nameplate in 2010
Can't spin that.
Not necessarily - most of the time you could just have the work done at your next schedule oil change. Most owners would not have to go out of their way much.
Skoda is basically low-budget Volkswagon nowadays.
Less stuff, so less to break, I suppose. I bet they have fewer problems than VW merely because they have less content.