Jerry Blake
New member
don't know if anybody else remembers but years ago Toyota made a huge stink because the U.S. insisted that Toyota had to start manufacturing a percentage of their vehicles in America. Toyota said the quality would suffer and that Americans were lazy, made inferior cars and would ruin their standard of excellence. Toyota was forced to cooperate if they wanted to continue to be allowed to export unlimited vehicles to the U.S. while accepting practically none of ours for sale in Japan.
Toyota is in Washington falling on it's sword and trying to dodge the issue of the internal company memos that showed they chose profit over growing concerns about safety and have been doing so for quite some time. They're saying they don't even have a definite fix for their brake problems.
I realize U.S.automakers made mistakes in the 60's 70's and 80's, figuring Americans would be loyal to whatever poor quality vehicles they made but Toyota got a huge advantage on the import-export deal.
Are you going to be more willing now to support Ford and GM and buy American again now that Toyota has proven that's it's main agenda was pure profit and they're not the shining example of perfection and purity they've passed themselves off as being? I know a number of Toyotas are made in America but really the lion share of the profits are going to Mr. Toyoda and Japan while our automakers are struggling to survive. Don't we owe it to companies like Ford who are coming out with new and innovative vehicles to give them our loyalty now that Toyota has fallen off it's pedestal?
Toyota is in Washington falling on it's sword and trying to dodge the issue of the internal company memos that showed they chose profit over growing concerns about safety and have been doing so for quite some time. They're saying they don't even have a definite fix for their brake problems.
I realize U.S.automakers made mistakes in the 60's 70's and 80's, figuring Americans would be loyal to whatever poor quality vehicles they made but Toyota got a huge advantage on the import-export deal.
Are you going to be more willing now to support Ford and GM and buy American again now that Toyota has proven that's it's main agenda was pure profit and they're not the shining example of perfection and purity they've passed themselves off as being? I know a number of Toyotas are made in America but really the lion share of the profits are going to Mr. Toyoda and Japan while our automakers are struggling to survive. Don't we owe it to companies like Ford who are coming out with new and innovative vehicles to give them our loyalty now that Toyota has fallen off it's pedestal?