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From: Ashton Crusher on 15 Feb 2010 12:46 On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 20:32:32 -0500, Hachiroku <Trueno(a)e86.GTS> wrote: >On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 18:12:04 -0700, Ashton Crusher wrote: > >> On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 02:02:46 -0500, Hachiroku ???? <Trueno(a)e86.GTS> >> wrote: >> >>>On Sat, 13 Feb 2010 17:21:03 -0700, Ashton Crusher wrote: >>> >>>> On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 08:04:22 -0600, dbu'' <nospam(a)nobama.com.invalid> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>>In article >>>>><b11522a6-0228-4f0e-b59d-a22b55130eb3(a)k36g2000prb.googlegroups.com>, >>>>> john <johngdole(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Yoshi Inaba sounds like a clairvoyant. ;) I wonder if there will be >>>>>> charges and arrests in the Toyota case as the Japanese government did >>>>>> in the Mitsubishi case. >>>>>> >>>>>> "For years, warning signs have clashed with its touted high standards >>>>>> >>>>>> Five years ago, Yoshi Inaba, then president of Toyota Motor Corp.'s >>>>>> U.S. sales operations, disclosed his biggest fear. It was that someday, >>>>>> some flaw in Toyota vehicles might go undetected and cause injuries, or >>>>>> worse, to the company's customers. >>>>>> >>>>>> Inaba was perhaps thinking of a huge scandal that had just engulfed >>>>>> Mitsubishi Motors Corp., a smaller Japanese carmaker accused of >>>>>> covering up defects for years. Top Mitsubishi executives, including its >>>>>> former president, had been arrested and charged." >>>>>> >>>>>> From The Detroit News: >>>>>> http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20100211/OPINION01/2110340/1148/auto01/Toyo >>>>>> ta-loses-its-way#ixzz0fHiJSPza >>>>> >>>>>My two Toyota's were the best cars I've ever owned and I've owned quite a >>>>>few big three plus VW in my 67 years. I will buy another another Toyota >>>>>without question. >>>> >>>> I had one Toyota and one datun and they were both junk. My sister in law >>>> had a Datsun and it was junk. They just don't hold up under hard driving. >>>> They are made for little old ladies who will never push them. >>> >>> >>>Bullshit. Toyotas love to be driven hard. >>> >> >> Maybe in your experience, certainly not in mine. A few full throttle >> shifts was all the AT in the Tercel could take. it was never the same >> after. > >Never happened to me. 1995 Tercel CX, used to drive it at 50 everywhere, >80 on the highway. > And that has exactly zero to do with their durability under full throttle shifts. >> >> >>>You can't equate "hard driving" with "total abuse". >>> >> >> I never abuse a car. > >Obviously, if you managed to damage a Toyota transmission, which are >usually rated 50 HP minimum, and sometimes up to 100 above it's >application, you do. > Believe whatever you want. You clearly are a Toyota apologist, just like Jim beam.
From: Hachiroku ハチロク on 16 Feb 2010 00:16 On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:42:47 -0700, Ashton Crusher wrote: >>hey, if i'd not bothered to check, and if i didn't have the integrity to >>admit that, maybe i'd make such an underinformed comment too. > > > For every warranty repair needed on a Toyota, how many warranty repairs do > you think are needed on a Ford? You have got to be kidding... I'd bet it's at least 3 to 1.
From: Steve on 16 Feb 2010 17:40 Hachiroku ハチロク wrote: > On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:42:47 -0700, Ashton Crusher wrote: > >>> hey, if i'd not bothered to check, and if i didn't have the integrity to >>> admit that, maybe i'd make such an underinformed comment too. >> >> For every warranty repair needed on a Toyota, how many warranty repairs do >> you think are needed on a Ford? > > You have got to be kidding... > > I'd bet it's at least 3 to 1. I'd say thats about right. 3 Toy repairs for every 1 Ford repair.
From: Mike Hunter on 16 Feb 2010 18:31 (Cross postings deleted, automatically) "Steve" <no(a)spam.thanks> wrote in message news:q56dnU7R1JVzg-bWnZ2dnUVZ_sRi4p2d(a)texas.net... > Hachiroku ???? wrote: >> On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:42:47 -0700, Ashton Crusher wrote: >> >>>> hey, if i'd not bothered to check,
From: Clive on 16 Feb 2010 20:50
In message <4b7b28f3$0$10139$ce5e7886(a)news-radius.ptd.net>, Mike Hunter <Mikehunt2(a)lycos.?.invalid> writes >(Cross postings deleted, automatically) You've obviously lost your way, or your mind. -- Clive |