i love this news. I think toyota cut off its "personal favors" for consumer reports. maybe if they cut off their personal favors with motortrend theyll stop having their cars be named vehicle of the year..

 

How could Toyota's quality be slipping? Their assembly plants in NA don't employ union workers.

 

No foolin', I'm tired of those yuppies praising them for this and that. Ford I think is making great strides to be on top. Just make cars and trucks competitive in every segment. If you build it, they will come. Anything is better looking than Toyota's so make a decent design and make sure quality etc is also present. Then, market the damn thing to areas (East and West coasts) where it's like bieng in Tokyo. How do you think the japs would react if GM or Ford was #1 in their homeland?

 

what a tool. Are you going to deny the transmission problems on the tundra? Are you going to deny the problems they are having with the assisted tailgate? there are numerous other problems with the turd. But a toy apoligizer won't let you see the truth.

 

Ha, ya, no kidding, damn union workers are killing the big 3, not market share or crap free trade with Asia and Mexico

 

ford or gm #1 in there homeland?? it will never happen. Japan is a protectionist country. That is why I will do all I can not to buy there products. trade fair and all bets are off.

 

Precisely, they're still pissed about the 2 A-bombs I'll bet.

 

Aren't we still at war with Korea?! Then how the heck do we have Hyundai's in America?!

I am beginning to think that Toyota is trying to come to America and steal the workers that could be working for the Big 3 in spite of many reasons. Whether their products are good or not. But at the rate they apparently going, they are going have some issues with staying in America... but then again, who knows... everything is some kind of marketing ploy these days. It isn't about who makes the best product, it is all about who wins the race of who sells more in a given period of time.

The Toyota Tundra for example reminds me of sell now, test later. I hope to also let Toyota know that they royally F'ed themselves with the v6 Camry, if it is really as bad as CR says it is. But who knows... really.

These magazines and editors are worse than maggots on garbage... they just don't know when to turn into flies and fly away, as in they don't know when to start writing something with some actual value, rather than total junk.

 

North Korea, not South. North Korea doesn't make anything, and with the leadership it has, probably never will.

 

Ya, North Korea has that retarded leader kim cho who gives a crap ready to fire nukes at everyone.

Another note I forgot, someone told me to avoid bad press, Toyota and Honda I think have "service campaigns" and everyone thinks it's cute. They also said that you have to have you're car serviced by them and in doing so allows the campaign to happen. I dunno, but it seems shady enough considering top officials are bieng charged in Tokyo with trying to cover up safety concerns etc.

 

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Absolutely not. Toyota is finding out the hard way that it is a lot more difficult to increase production figures and keep the quality up.

 

1997 F-150 4x4 10yrs old 224,000 miles and no issues 15mpg.
OEM plugs,wires,battery,clutch had to replace 1 u joint.
2002 toyota rav4 4x4 116,000 and no issues 30mpg

I think its a maint. thing myself...

 

Anybody who jumps on the CR bandwagon after reading this is a fool. These people were supposed to be making recommendations based on data not on a feeling or a reputation. If you can take CR seriously after they admit they do not base all of their recommendations on data then maybe you should reconsider procreating. Which recommendation are based on data and which are based on a love affair with whichever company? We'll never know so that brings all of their recommendations into question.

 

Rather than blaming the American assembly line workers blame the people at Toyota who came up with thing. The engineers are the ones who designed the weaker frames, bed bounce, bad crash test ratings, spongy breaks, breakable camshaft engines, etc. From another forum...