Oh, what a feeling - Toyota. That wonderful feeling that someone fucked up the programming on your car so now, like in that old Stephen King book "Christine", your little Corolla will decide on its own to zoom to sub-sonic speeds and your death. Needless to say, I much prefer the feeling of an old reliable Dodge Caravan. Parts are cheap, abundant and the car isn't clever enough to harbor dre
ChuckerCanuck 2.0 | more | posted February 24th
Henry Payne; Let the circus begin. Or more accurately, the blood-letting at the Colosseum. After all, Toyota’s federal judges in this theater are also major shareholders in Toyota’s competition, GM and Chrysler. Flashback! - "Those didn't strike us as business...
small dead animals | more | posted February 23rd
Toyota must be rather embarrassed. Millions of vehicles have been recalled, and now over 400,000 hybrids are being recalled.I've been saying it for a while. Buy Ford. Ford is the only domestic auto maker making money right now, so the chance of GM or Chrysler pulling through in the long run is slim at this point. The foreign vehicles can be very well built, but you pay much more up front. I've d
The Raging Tory | more | posted February 9th
Ford:Ford Motor's December sales leaped an adjusted 23.3 percent, far outpacing industry forecasts for the U.S. automaker.The sales gain allowed Ford to end 2009 on an upswing after a year that saw General Motors and Chrysler collapse into bankruptcy and China overtake the United States as the biggest car market.Ford said it sold a total of 184,655 vehicles last month, up from 139,067 in the same
Celestial Junk | more | posted January 5th
According to the Fraser Institute, Canada has poured more then 200 billion dollars in corporate bailouts and welfare since 1994.In my opinion, the money qoute is this one:“The illusion of corporate welfare directed to the automotive industry in 2009 was the illusion that jobs were being saved. No, they were not. Instead of jobs being cut at General Motors or Chrysler, they were simply cut elsewh
Right As Rain | more | posted November 29th