Well, my 1995 Toyota Corolla is still serving me well-after 15 years! In the mean time I went through 4 American-made cars. 3 had Transmission issues(multiply 3500 x 3 to get value lost by me just to drive them around). I also own a 2006 Toyota Sienna.
This attack on Toyota is very politically motivated, imo, and I don’t think Toyota can be killed like that. It is a mountain out-of-a-mole-hill story. There are lots of loyal customers out there like me who would not care for this minor blemish on Toyota’s record. In the meantime, I see tonnes of ads for GM and Ford cars. You got to put a gun to my head to make me buy another one of those American junks. It will be either a Toyota or Honda next time. Hyundai I think might be part of this conspiracy to bring Toyota down. Btw, I hate those tinny-looking Hyundai cars!
For its part, Toyota thought they could get away with this problem. The management got too caulky. Toyota has to drive home the culture of quality into its workforce every now and then. It is an utter failure of management to palm off an issue with accelerator by saying it was caused by floor carpeting! The guy who thought the company could get away with that should be send back to an MBA class and do all the case-studies pertaining to ethics!
My 1995 corolla had NEVER any issues. But the Sienna had issues with faulty fuel door, melting boot handle, driver seat belt issue and the whole sound system is junk(when you compare it with that of a Chrysler minivan). So why was my 1995 Corolla better made? I think it was made by people in Japan and then exported out. There was no globalisation like today in 1995. Nowadays, with globalisation, these things are assembled by people in cultures that don’t have quality ingrained in them. So Toyota should either make all their cars in Japan and export it out OR be extremely strict with the quality at places where these cars are assembled. So in effect, globalisation did have a bad effect on Toyota.
Toyota will make a BIG comeback to its former glory soon and with better quality cars. In the meantime folks, don’t throw away your money on junk American-made cars. Also don’t get me wrong: If I were to buy a bike some day, it would definitely be a Harley! But cars, Americans somehow have to master.
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