Toyota

Toyota gambles with Fire Sale Prices over piling inventory!!! (Cross post removed)
Since over half of the vehicles Toyota sells in the US are imported, it needs to build the number of vehicles it believes they will be selling in five or six months. With the way their sales are today that is hard to predict hence the over supply sitting at the docks and in dealer inventory. Declining selling... 1 Aug 2010 20:19

Violent Crime In Maricopa County up 58% Under Sheriff JoeArpiao
On Sun, 01 Aug 2010 09:20:33 -0700, Aratzio wrote: Yet, law and order Sheriff Joe Arpiao has allowed Violent Crime in his jurisdiction to rise 58%. Did you spend some time in Tent City in a pink jumpsuit perhaps? ... 1 Aug 2010 20:19

Smart move: Dutch abandon Afghanistan
Leave Afghanistan for nations that want to build nations other than their own. Some countries want to pacify Afghanistan, but then not even their backyard is secure. Mexico is sinking into chaos, and their own cities are walled for security. "Dutch become 1st NATO member to quit Afghanistan" KABUL, Afghanistan... 3 Aug 2010 14:48

Toyota gambles with Fire Sale Prices over piling inventory!!!
Looks like inventory is piling up, and a good way of doing a fire sale is Low Lease Rates to riskier customers (sub-prime?) instead of Cash Incentives. "For Toyota, the deal could be a financial disaster. To keep customers coming to its showrooms amid a series of embarrassing recalls, Toyota has been offering so... 6 Aug 2010 18:14

radiator leak
My 1997 Camry LE 4 with 190K miles has a radiator leak. It is at the top of the radiator below the part where you add coolant. It's actually below the seam, although there is also some seepage from other parts of the seam farther away. The local car parts store sells a replacement radiator for $140 and I looke... 1 Aug 2010 20:19

Violent Crime In Maricopa County up 58% Under Sheriff Joe Arpiao
Arizona Violent crime is down 12% state wide since 2002. Pima County, right on the border, Violent Crime is down 15.4% in the same time. Yet, law and order Sheriff Joe Arpiao has allowed Violent Crime in his jurisdiction to rise 58%. So, in which county would you rather live, Pima where Sheriff Dupnik does ... 7 Aug 2010 22:23

{BS} New show on ABC tomorrow (Sunday) morning
In message <4c54eedd$0$74748$afc38c87(a)read01.usenet4all.se>, =?iso-2022-jp?q?Hachiroku_=1B$B%O%A%m%=2F=1B=28B?= <Trueno(a)e86.GTS> writes milquetoast What's that mean? -- Clive ... 2 Aug 2010 20:18

Toyota and Lexus recalled over Steering Defect (Recall #14-14 of 2010)
In message <gbp956t8lqn1p3i9pms0vtlot0ir3tqsqp(a)4ax.com>, john <johngdole(a)hotmail.com> writes Same thing going on with BP / Haliburton / Transocean Gulf Oil Spill dispute. Here the buck is yours buddy! hehehe.. no wait, we don't have to clean it up, you do! http://thinkprogress.org/2010/06/09/bp-skip-hearing... 1 Aug 2010 15:57

Does The Internet Make You Dumber?
From my inbox some days/weeks ago ... none of the graphics can posted here. "There is a good book review on this exact subject in the Sunday Denver Post." "The book reviewed in the paper was precisely "The Shallows" by Nicholas Carr." [ The Roman philosopher Seneca may have put it best 2,000 years ago... 2 Aug 2010 01:43

Plug in Hybrid
I see the new Toyota hybrid is on the horizon. Remember the point of a hybrid, isn't to drive on electric but to use the energy thrown away during braking to get the car up to speed again, (Like KERS on an F1 car.) This makes the car as efficient as if it was running at constant speed. The new car. Engine 1... 1 Aug 2010 23:35