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Detroit, 11:48 PM
Tue Dec 1
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How about a performance car? I don't mean a $40,000 luxury 2-seater..I mean a practical daily driver for the average person with some fun built in. I don't see anything like that from Toyota.
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No one in the US wanted exciting cars so automakers around the planet had to cater to that. Plus new models introduced means new liabilities and we are all to eager to sue the fuck out of companies. I know this is a rant BUT there is a reason why Europe, Asia and Australia get cool cars from GM, Ford, Honda, Toyota, etc.
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I blame the American consumer. Delenda Cartago.
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Yeah, Toyota is nothing more than an appliance brand in the US - the Kenmore of the automotive world. We are to blame for that as much as Toyota.
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@Steve_in_NC:
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I found this in a Thesaurus under the heading "Toyota":
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Well, blaming the Japanese for corporate subsidies is fairy hypocritical when the US has just come out of a trillion dollar bank bailout.
Not to mention the US automotive industry has had the largest influx of government help and meddling in automotive history. 60% of GM is owned by the US government, and the rest is owned by the UAW and the Canadian government.
10/02/09
Your point is valid in that it points out the extremes our gov't has seen fit to go to to "preserve" some semblance of certain national corporations. The Japanese would never have let it get that far, and have certainly benefited, until very recently, from a very open marketplace that is the United States. (and the Koreans too)
Having formerly worked for a Japanese car company, I saw this first hand.
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@komododave: Fraulein approved!
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Go fish.