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    Toyota Exec Blames Video Games For Slow Vehicle Sales

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    Image of Elhigh Elhigh
    11/10/09

    In reply to Need For Speed Gamers Race Real Mustangs Against Video Game Mustangs
    Could I beat my video game time? Hell yes, I stink at video games. #needforspeed
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    Image of bzr bzr
    11/10/09

    In reply to Need For Speed Gamers Race Real Mustangs Against Video Game Mustangs
    Did they do better than Clarkson? #needforspeed
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    Image of Peugeot--Making Bicycles Once Again Peugeot--Making Bicycles Once Again
    11/10/09

    @bzr: Does anyone remember the South Park episode where they kept saying "the Simpsons have already done that". I feel in the automotive world this applies to Top Gear. And as the video shows, "Top Gear has already done this." #needforspeed
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    Image of G-Ram G-Ram
    10/23/09

    In reply to Toyota Exec Blames Video Games For Slow Vehicle Sales
    This statement is ignorant.

    I bought my car because of GT4.

    I drove the concept car in the game and fell in love with it. Turns out; less than a year after I discovered it in the game, the car made it to production. I went to the nearest dealership and plunked down a grand for a pre-order and waited 6 months for them to make the car.

    Thank you GT; for inspiring the purchase of a great automobile. #videogames
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    Image of Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est
    10/23/09

    In reply to Toyota Exec Blames Video Games For Slow Vehicle Sales
    I think that they have a point:

    Being able to see and sample just how many kinds of awesome machinery was readily available back in the days must make the average youngster pretty desperate when faced with what manufacturers (and don't forget legislators) offer nowadays.

    Historical fun or current boredom? The fact that one of them is pixellated doesn't seem to change the equation too much. #videogames
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    Image of ozyran ozyran
    10/22/09

    In reply to Toyota Exec Blames Video Games For Slow Vehicle Sales
    Let's see - no insurance, no fillups, no police (unless you want them, then you can conduct a high-speed getaway with no less than 6 cop cars chasing after you!), no maintenance, and if you wreck it, push the "Reset" button and you're all set. Hmm - you can also eat, drink, type, text, or whatever and no one except for some electrons will get hurt!

    Better? No.
    More fun? Maybe, if you drive something massively underpowered, like a 1973 Mercedes 220D.
    Awesome racing action on the cheap? Definitely! #videogames
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    Image of Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est
    10/23/09

    @ozyran: Underpowered is a kind of fun all its own - and the kind that one rarely gets to enjoy in a video game (although I spent a lot of GT2 time in a bone-stock KP82 Toyota Starlet). #videogames
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    Image of ozyran ozyran
    10/23/09

    @Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est: I would tend to agree, except the Benz 220D that I owned would scrub off 20 mph going uphill on the Interstate empty at full throttle.

    Needless to say, that car didn't make it to the Interstate much. #videogames
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    Image of WhisperingBomb WhisperingBomb
    10/22/09

    In reply to Toyota Exec Blames Video Games For Slow Vehicle Sales
    Haven’t Tesla owners been waiting for their cars as long as we’ve been waiting for Gran Turismo? #videogames
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    Image of skierpage skierpage
    10/23/09

    @WhisperingBomb: No, you're stuck in the past. Tesla has shipped about 850 Roadsters to customers. Tesla's October newsletter says "custom order today for delivery by Christmas", so the new know-nothing negative armchair criticism is "Tesla must be doomed, they filled almost all their pre-orders and don't have a long waiting list." #videogames
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    Image of LandofMinos, cast thou evil bum dragger to thy scrapyard LandofMinos, cast thou evil bum dragger to thy scrapyard
    10/22/09

    In reply to Toyota Exec Blames Video Games For Slow Vehicle Sales
    Toyota exec needs to stop sniffing glue #videogames
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    Image of Xelmon Xelmon
    10/22/09

    @LandofMinos:
    Aye. It works the opposite way actually. #videogames
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    Image of ArtForge ArtForge
    10/22/09

    In reply to Toyota Exec Blames Video Games For Slow Vehicle Sales
    What does yours sound like? hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
    oh yeah. #videogames
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    Image of FrankGrimes FrankGrimes
    10/22/09

    In reply to Toyota Exec Blames Video Games For Slow Vehicle Sales
    This totally explains why Toyota cars are so boring. #videogames
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    Image of If FromaBuick6 has to watch one more Chevy commercial, he's going to punch Howie Long in the face If FromaBuick6 has to watch one more Chevy commercial, he's going to punch Howie Long in the face
    10/22/09

    In reply to Toyota Exec Blames Video Games For Slow Vehicle Sales
    Bullshit. Just looking at that Mk II Supra makes me want to go buy one. Too bad I'll never find a real one that looks as good as that image (Jesus, it's amazing how lifelike video games have gotten). If Toyota actually bothered to make cars that awesome anymore, they wouldn't have to whine about something as petty as this. #videogames
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    Image of Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est
    10/23/09

    @All work and no Jalopnik make FromaBuick6 a dull boy: It took me waaaay too long to realize that was pixels and not reality. #videogames
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    Image of ☠Grяrяrяrяrя, portrait of a chickenwolfmoosepig. ☠Grяrяrяrяrя, portrait of a chickenwolfmoosepig.
    10/22/09

    In reply to Toyota Exec Blames Video Games For Slow Vehicle Sales
    Toyota still makes cars? #videogames
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    10/22/09

    @☠Grяrяrяrяrя, portrait of a chickenwolfmoosepig.: Yeah, my upstairs neighbor drives an '07-ish Corolla. I'm told that its spin cycle is 20% more efficient than its competitors' due to its special drum design and temperature sensors. #videogames
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    Image of ☠Grяrяrяrяrя, portrait of a chickenwolfmoosepig. ☠Grяrяrяrяrя, portrait of a chickenwolfmoosepig.
    10/22/09

    @MushyHeirloom: I hear the matching dryer has hybrid synergy drive. I think that's for drying delicate female underthings or something. #videogames
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    Image of tempesjo tempesjo
    10/22/09

    In reply to Toyota Exec Blames Video Games For Slow Vehicle Sales
    I blame the telephone and comfortable shoes. #videogames
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    Image of Scaramanga Scaramanga
    10/22/09

    In reply to Toyota Exec Blames Video Games For Slow Vehicle Sales
    This is taken waaaaaay out of context. It's not about falling vehicle sales- sales are never ONCE mentioned.

    The original reference is to the "Date Car"- it's the title of the article.

    Its an article about the end of an era where the car as being the object of desire and excitement of young people. Kids working hard, saving up your cash to get a hot 'date car'. All that is changing in the digital area- a status symbol isn't an "AE86 Hachi-roku or Silvia like 20 years ago", its an iPhone.

    The implication is that kids these days are losing interest in enthusiast cars like they use to. Japan is congested, cars are expensive, and kids would rather spend money elsewhere.

    People would rather play Gran Turisimo for their automotive excitement, or talk about them on the internet rather then actually drive one.

    The article ends, with it saying that part of the problem also lays with the manufacturer. How can you attract young people if you don't make an exciting car they can afford. So.. "Subaru and Toyota are combining efforts to revive the Hachi-roku (AE86)" #videogames
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    Image of skierpage skierpage
    10/23/09

    @Scaramanga: Thanks for RTFA instead of Ben's garbled summary. Google Translate of the Mainichi articles gives the poetic "I was a young man of grazing, even abandoned the interest in the car, which I think contributes to low birth rates."

    Driving my pearl Infernus into a kerb at 180 mph so that it catches fire, flies upside down through the air, and bounces off a palm tree in GTA:Vice City Stories never gets dull. Most driving in real life does, and is better suited to a Toyota appliancemobile. #videogames
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    Image of aniteshj aniteshj
    10/22/09

    In reply to Toyota Exec Blames Video Games For Slow Vehicle Sales
    How about your sales are bad because your cars are shitty and therefore no one is going to buy YOUR cars. I still see healthy sales at other dealerships though, so it really is just you. Sorry. Might be a good time to bring back the Celica, and the Supra, aka the cars that would bring people back to your shitty and badge engineering brand. Atleast when GM badge engineers you get crazy good, like the XLR. When Toyota badge engineers, you get shit. #videogames
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    10/22/09

    @aniteshj: Like the XLR, the Escalade EXT, the Grand Prix, the G3, the...

    ...where was I? #videogames
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    Image of aniteshj aniteshj
    10/22/09

    @MushyHeirloom: I cautiously left out all the hackjobs, I was too busy drooling at the XLR to remember, :D

    Okay yea GM has made serious screwups but they haven't gone to blaming video games for low sales. #videogames
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    Image of Thrashy, perpetual Minardi Thrashy, perpetual Minardi
    10/22/09

    In reply to Toyota Exec Blames Video Games For Slow Vehicle Sales
    Hey, that's a Mk.II Supra! I love those things? So much better than what Toyota sells now.

    ...wait, what were talking about again? #videogames
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