Toyota's high reputation

You can't be serious with that comment. Even as a comment intended to provoke a reaction, it's completely silly. Sales are down because the economy is in the tank. Unless you are selling gold or silver, your sales are down.

Tom

 

Does the Vanno evaluation help you feel better about the $1billion+ a week that Toyota and co are draining out of the US and the hundreds of thousands of jobs that have been transferred from the US to Japan?

 

Toyota has built a global reputation for building vehicles that wont quit, be they Corolla, world's best selling car or Hilux, the car poor countries use as a tank, Toyota vehicles just keep going. Sure the Land Cruiser is the worlds best 4 wheel drive too and used exclusively by a lot of mining companies. Lets face it, Toyota have a great vehicle in every segment of the market, and they never say die.

Malorn, it makes me feel better that I am not driving a POS.

 

What surprises me is that GM came in at 241. I've adopted a cliche' I often use that goes, "GM Junk." This, of course refers to the company's product reliability - generally spread evently across all its families.

 

So all GM's and Fords are POS and all toyotas are marvelous. Great thinkers in Australia I guess.

 

You said it not me.
I have driven Toyotas for over 25 years and have had almost no problems at all. Why would I change now? Why did people who once drove Ford and GM product switch to Toyota? Why would they switch back?
I might add, my wifes RAV4 is 13 years old, my Camry was 16 years old, my Crown is 41 years old, my Corolla (son's car) is 23 years old, my previous crown was 30 years old when I sold it. I have put 65,000km on my Prius in the last 20 months, so I do drive my cars.
Great thinkers them yankie car sales men, I guess.

 

sorry, but i need an explanation as to how GM beat Ford in the ratings

 

I agree.... Had GM cars in the past all had problems.
Went over to Mercury less problems and better service.
1999 Tried Toyota, No problems Great Service....
Will consider another Ford in the future..... depends if they have something equal to or better than Toyota.

 

Self preservation.

 

You said it, I didn't.

 

i dont care about GM's past. we all have skeletons. what concerns me is that GM is staring ruin in the face over the past few years and still has not provided a high mileage hybrid

 

Might be easier if they just build a car I want (other than the EV1 which they crushed).
After all, I don't rely directly on GM, so self preservation doesn't come into it. And even by your over-inflated numbers, less than 1% of people in the US do.
Build a more efficient car, and I will be there.

 

They are the largest manufacturing company in the United States.

 

Size doesn't matter. Quality does.

 

It matters when said industry is targeted by industries in foriegn countries and plans are put together in an industrial policy to wipe out that industry and all of the associated jobs. Tell that to former steelworkers in Pennsylvania and indiana, or former textile workers in the northeast, or former electronics workers in the midwest or former autoworkers across the country. Tell them it does not matter, these people all used to have jobs that would ssupport a family comfortably, now they are greeters at Wal-Mart(selling Chinese crap). The social fabric of this country is being torn apart as a result of this.

 

No matter your size, if you sell cars that people don't want to buy because of poor quality, your business is doomed.

When we were considering a hybrid car for my friend, the moment I mentioned the upcoming Ford Fusion as a possible option, my friend's wife immediately interjected. She said her last car was a Ford and that she'd never consider an American car again. Well, since she's the one controlling the money in her household, who are we to object?

 

Reputation is the result of what you do and how people perceive what you do. It isn't what you say you are going to do. It isn't what you say about your competitors.

That's why Toyota has a good reputation.

 

You can thank the criminals in both political parties, and the criminals in the unions, for the loss of their jobs