So you think I am nuts?

[DLP]

For the long time members on this site, check out this article that was on MSNBC's home page today.

I know you guys think I am a raging idiot, but EVERYTHING I have been ranting about for the last 3 years is coming true. You wait, Toyota wont spend much time on GM's throne. Japans unfair trade practices will no longer be swept under the rug becuase the US government bailed them out. There is to much money at stake to ignore the reality of what has happened.

http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com...t-its-way.aspx

The US media is FINALLY starting to focus there attention on non US manufactures. Toyota cannot hide anymore. It will get alot worse for them, wait until the hatred that has been taught for decades regarding US products is focused on them. I dont feel sorry for Toyota, and dam sure dont feel sorry for anyone that has participated in bashing US manufactures.
Remember your ignorence when you read the first of many articles like this.

[DLP]

Another article pointing out how Toyota really operates.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33627890/ns/business-autos

Like I have said for years, Toyota wont get the free pass anymore when GM takes federal money to stay afloat. This is the tip of the iceburg, in ten years Toyota will be looked by the general public the same way they looked at the big 3 ten years ago. And it will be well deserved and long over due.

[DLP]

So, Toyota misses the mark when it comes to safety now. I like how they respond, blame it on someone else. Toyota will soon be exposed as the pretender it has always been and you GM haters will wonder what happened. In reality, they were who they are now, they just dont have the media hiding the truth anymore.

http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com...r-ratings.aspx

[AmericanCar4US]

Hey DLP.......See your still behind GM.....Good for you.......Where is all the Foreign Competition?.......

[DLP]

Maybe they hit a peice of Toyota that fell off on the highway? Hope so.

Check out this story that was on the front page of MSNBC today.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34137136/?gt1=43001

I guess the rust problem that one million plus Toyota Tacoma's had for a decade spread to the Tundra while they were parked side by side on the freighter while being shipped here from Japan. Maybe it's the Pacific Oceans fault?

[Madman]

Originally Posted by DLP

I guess the rust problem that one million plus Toyota Tacoma's had for a decade spread to the Tundra while they were parked side by side on the freighter while being shipped here from Japan. Maybe it's the Pacific Oceans fault?

Interesting theory, except for one small detail. Neither the Tacoma or the Turndra are shipped across the Pacific from Japan. The Tacoma is made in Freemont, California and the Tundra is built in San Antonio, Texas.

Not that I really care one way or the other. Pickups aren't my thing, so I really have no interest here.


Cheers,
Madman of the People

[DLP]

It's not really my theory, just my sarcasm.

My theory is that Toyota has been a media darling for twenty years and has never been able to live up to the hype. The same " media" has been breaking down everything made in the US along with the core of the country at the same time.

The tides have turned, you just watch what happens to the farce that is Toyota quality and consumers opinions of US products over the next ten years. Mark my words, it is already starting to happen. In actuality, it happened 10 - 15 years ago, but the media will finally give Toyota it's rewards for mediocre quality and the insistance on blaming some one else for it's problems.

I have been on this site for several years saying the same thing, and now it's becoming reality.

[AmericanCar4US]

[quote=Madman;108280]Interesting theory, except for one small detail. Neither the Tacoma or the Turndra are shipped across the Pacific from Japan. The Tacoma is made in Freemont, California and the Tundra is built in San Antonio, Texas.

There seems to be a word in your statement that needs revisited: "Made In"......Let's clarify that......It should read "Assembled In" with Forign Parts from Japan.

Why is it all Foreign Countries want to use the word's "Made In America" when in actuallity they are only assembled here?........We all know it takes several supplier plants to run one assembly plant.....That translates into seven or more lost jobs if a Foreign Country "Assembles" an auto in America and imports the parts.......Facts are facts......Then they mix in the "Assembled in America" auto's with their imports......Wow is that duping the American Consumer?.......Sure it is...

[DLP]

AC4US,

Unfortunately, "assembled in the US" is not totally accuret either. Japan has adapted the " leach" philosphy of using the same US sub contractors as US owned companies. This becomes important when there is a problem. The main streem media and consumers do not understand the complexities of subbing out work and providing what they advertise as quality. Lets use this true example, Toyota hires a US manufacture to produce camshafts for the POS that changed it all, Tundra, but specs low grade steel for use in camshafts and they fail, then they blame the US producer. Or another example would be the tourqe convertor in the same POS, Toyota specs, failure, then blame the supplier. See how that works, either way, US gets a bad wrap, Japan gets away with blaiming the US. It presents a lose lose situation in the mdia becuase most people are baised regarding US products becuase of the organized attack on US products. This has been going on for a couple of generations and will take atleast 15 years to reverse. There should be a HUGE public backlash against Japan, but it will be minimal, but steady for 10 years. Like I have said before, the MORONS that believed and promoted the BULL**** need to be held accountable. Instead they will be the MORONS that blame someone else, wonder where they get the inspiration? Yea, it wasnt from the US, look west........