From: Hachiroku ハチロク on
On Fri, 05 Feb 2010 03:45:00 -0800, ransley wrote:

>> But I have had two Toyotas with 'problems', both fixed free after the
>> warranty had expired.
>> To me, they have always been a good company. It wouldn't surprise me if
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> Ive had problems fixed also, no problem with toyota. The new CEO has alot
> to learn. Brakes are a bit more important than my radio recall, they keep
> you from hitting, and killing things. You can import, get approved and
> sell a car with a bad radio. You could never sell a car with brakes that
> dont engage, lapse for 1 second, 1 second is often all you have to react
> and and stop. Now consider Wozniaks claim its software that makes his cruz
> control malfunction, and the software controlls the brakes. It could be an
> easy or expensive fix but the CEO knew and chose ignore it, Thats
> negligence.

What about Ford?

Here's an interesting factoid: Ford was buying hybrid tech from Toyota,
and then stopped buying and sterted working on their own.

Now, the prius has a regen to friction brake delay, and so does Ford!