The Dark Side Of The Toyota Prius

[rfruth]

Originally Posted by ldxcrunr

there is no darkside as a matter of fact its all dark

I agree all smog machines are trouble, the less you use them the better

[C.RICKEY HIROSE]

Ludicrous! This article is all anti-Toyota propaganda. Lies.
I happen to know a few workers from Brazil working at Toyota City plant.
These Portuguse speaking immigrants scouted from Brazil ( Temporary )
says, Toyota will go the extra mile in helping them to settle in Japan working for Toyota factory.

Their living quarters or private apartments are of very high living standards, They have shop marts dedicated to Brazilian immigrants,
They have schools for these immigrants childrens,They have teachers and they speak in Portuguse to their children and spouses. They even have Portuguse speaking Japanese national to represent the immigrants to address their concerns and questions to Toyota .

All these Brazilia workers or associates are well paid and have been furnished of all and best amenities for them and family as same as Toyota native employees.
These immigrants, wants to never leave Toyota city to go back to Brazil
so I hear.

[rfruth]

wow C the same is / was (?) true of the dodge ram plant in Mexico, lots of high paying jobs w benefits etc. but pickups are evel so we put the breaks on that

Dodge Ram production idled at Mexico plant - Autoblog

[RonH]

The article is not even internally consistent. If the guest workers make less than half the minimum wage and 60% of the native workers, that implies the native workers are making less than the minimum wage.

Innumeracy, thy name is journalism.

[NeoPrius]

Seems like these workers can leave if they want to... all they have to do is complain about the working conditions. They are no doubt aware of what they're getting into by way of workers that have returned to their home countries, but find the conditions acceptable for the pay, which is probably much better than what they can get back home. Same as the undocumented Mexicans (etc.) that come here to the US.

[jammin012]

STOP YOUR WHINNING AND MAKE MORE CARS, THERE'S A WAITING LIST TO FILL!!!!!!!!

[Rybold]

Originally Posted by jammin012

STOP YOUR WHINNING AND MAKE MORE CARS, THERE'S A WAITING LIST TO FILL!!!!!!!!

I hope Toyota hurries up and fixes this problem, and then it's
BACK TO WORK !!! Keep pumpin' out the Priuses!

[etyler88]

As great as the Prius is, it is still built by a corporation. Corporations are not human and act for profit, end of story. The main way corporations put on a pretty face and still abuse workers is by using subcontractors and not caring how the subcontractor acts. There needs to be an information box similar to the food nutrition infomation box on retail packaged food. The new information box should provide the buyer with point of purchase info on how the workers and enviroment were treated to create the product. I.E. was a sweatshop involved and did it pollute.

[JimN]

If the car is purchased from Sith Motors or Empire Toyota then it may be from The Dark Side. AFAIK they stock two colors: Vader Black and Stormtrooper White.

[subarutoo]

Does everybody think Priuses are built by monks living in monasteries with 4 hr yoga breaks? The truth is probably somewhere between hell and nirvanna, as is most of life.