Good-bye TOYOTA

better not run me over with that thing, ... http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704905604575027671658649384.html?mod=WSJ_auto_LeadStoryCollection

• JANUARY 26, 2010

Toyota Halts Sales Over Safety Issue



In a stunning and unprecedented move, Toyota Motor Corp. on Tuesday halted sales of most of its popular models in the U.S. in response to growing concerns that possible defects may cause the vehicles to accelerate unintentionally.

FuZZyBUDz said:

OW well, they only made 1 nice car, the SUPRA. thats it....i think, but dont feel much like thinking. accalerate unintentionaly! haha

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No i'm sure they did something else, it was the er, the erm, what you call it, er yes...............

Ae86, jzx100, celica, aristo, and many many more. Yeah, Toyota only made 1 good car lol.

Very interesting news though, more investigation defo required! I hope this doesn't impact the progress of the toyobaru!

FuZZyBUDz said:

OW well, they only made 1 nice car, the SUPRA. thats it....i think, but dont feel much like thinking. accalerate unintentionaly! haha

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4 Runners are pretty nice... but I'm bias.

Dude I love my car.

Thats cheap ass Asian imports. At least mine is German.

Supra's were the shit my man, oh yeah to bad they went to the prius and camry. Lame Pre 95 i would own an import. Not one of the new ones.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzMI4DoYl04

This was just on the news in Aus. Limited to USDM and it's neighbours. That is a massive recall, so many models includng the most popular.

I totally forgot about the land cruiser too. FJ all the way! Some (most) of the best 4x4s are from Toyota.

Supras have amazing potential power and I can see why people love the styling... Hardly a great car to drive though. The American car market baffles me though, y'all call locally made cars imports, and imported chassis/engineering are considered American cars lol.

Has anyone had experience with this alleged pedal problem? From witness reports it seems more complicated than a physically sticking pedal.

Turns out the Japanese spaced the brake and accelerator pedals too close together. they used the Japanese measurement, and didn't allow for FAT ARSE American feet.

They forgot to allow for the WalMart variance.

All the cars are being sent to Africa......

CrackerJax said:

All the cars are being sent to Africa......

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thats great... lol

I brought my Tundra in several times for that exact problem, would be at a light and all of a sudden it would start surging , good brakes though kept it in check. they never could find the problem and I got rid of it soon after.

A good friend of mine had a 2 stage turbo on his 1100 HP Supra. Drove it every day commuting and never had a problem in 4 years.

apparently they have come up with an "easy fix".


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they go hella fast and never stop. WHEEEEEEEEEE!!!!! http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100205/ap_on_bi_ge/toyota_recall

gm stock was up 14% yesterday from what i saw in the newspaper, it also said GMC went up 46%

we in detroit are loving this

Mattplusness said:

gm stock was up 14% yesterday from what i saw in the newspaper, it also said GMC went up 46%

we in detroit are loving this

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I'm sure Detroit is...

What if their fix it method was a bungy chord to pull the pedal up. Then we can confirm that everyone really is a stoner.

what they say is the fix and what is the actual fix are two different things.

I have a 96 f150 a98 explorer 03 ranger and 06 explorer v8 limited and have no prob's at all love my usa made trucks FORD BABY,But i do have minor recall on cruise control on 06 explorer but the best cars or trucks i have ever owned out of my toyota that i put 3 crank shafts in under 50,000 or my nissan with piss poor paint and none stop start prob's, My f-150 has 265,000 and had to put some part to maintain it and my 98 exploer has 110,000 and no prob's BUY US CARS AND TRUCKS WE TRULY SET THE PACE FOR THE JAP'S.DONT LET THEM FOOL U!!

so i wonder if my old place of employment is gonna still be pushing all of that kazian sh*t and lean... they leaned so much, they ended up laying off about 20% of the workforce and expect the rest to pick up the slack.. couldn't have come at a better time for american car manufacturers really..