Q. It is now being reported that US cars, now top foreign cars in quality according to most general surveys. (see link). Question, "How do you think the US car makers managed to achieve this?" No trolls please! http://finance.yahoo.com/news/US-cars-toâ¦
It's amazing to watch people like Chris go ballistic just because someone asks a simple question that may seem to imply that Toyota has poor quality. Gee. I wonder if Chris drives a Toyota? LOL!
Here is another link to shoe US carmakers are beating Foreign cars.
http://editorial.autos.msn.com/article.aspx?cp-documentid=1149477&icid=autos_0430>1=22009
It's amazing to watch people like Chris go ballistic just because someone asks a simple question that may seem to imply that Toyota has poor quality. Gee. I wonder if Chris drives a Toyota? LOL!
Here is another link to shoe US carmakers are beating Foreign cars.
http://editorial.autos.msn.com/article.aspx?cp-documentid=1149477&icid=autos_0430>1=22009
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Well, it is a partially inapropriate question only because all cars are foreign. Every car maker makes their cars from parts from other countries, or in other countries. If Toyota makes a car in the US, is it foreign? VW's are made in Mexico. The other part of this is that the companies all own eachother. There is actually only a small handful of car companies that each make many brands of cars.
As that probably is kind of sideways (although not unimportant or untrue) to your question, I will offer this.
A lot of trends has to do with production cycles. As a company, leaders have to decide how much money to put into research and development and quality control. Each of those things cost money, which reduce profits. It is a balance act of spending enough money in those areas to keep consumers happy (but only just enough). In the 70s-2000's, US automakers had a skewed version of reality. They didn't spend too much money on those areas because they were still making killer profits. Part of the problem was the "Buy American" ideal. With people buying American even though they were increasingly crappy products, automakers had no initiative to increase quality. Why should they have, they were still making money hand over fist, and pouring money into quality would have only taken it out of their own profits and hurt them as compared to their competition that wasn't 'wasting' money on that. The problem is that it caught up with them. Late 80's early 90's fewer people felt that the motivation of "buying American" wasn't enough of a justification to keep shelling out money for unreliable undesirable cars. Increasing fuel prices (partially from the '73 oil crisis) also helped people justify making the switch. They began buying foreign more. By the time the automakers started to feel the pinch, it was becoming too late to make a quick turn around. Most cars have a multiyear development time. If you wanted to take a new direction, it can be almost a decade before those cars start making enough production to make a difference. Forward to 2010, you are starting to see that effect now. Even though trends were heading down in the 80's, US car makers were slow to make changes, let alone drastic ones, so things didn't really start to happen until much later. That said, some makers didn't even make changes as of 2010, and that is why we saw several companies close.
The reason 'Foreign' cars seem to be lagging behind is because they are at a different point in their cycle. They had made reliable cars for a long time, so they began to trim R&D and reliabilty to increase their profit margin. Now that they are starting to get bit, they will probably make a shift back (but that will take quite a few years).
So that is what you are perceiving.
Well, it is a partially inapropriate question only because all cars are foreign. Every car maker makes their cars from parts from other countries, or in other countries. If Toyota makes a car in the US, is it foreign? VW's are made in Mexico. The other part of this is that the companies all own eachother. There is actually only a small handful of car companies that each make many brands of cars.
As that probably is kind of sideways (although not unimportant or untrue) to your question, I will offer this.
A lot of trends has to do with production cycles. As a company, leaders have to decide how much money to put into research and development and quality control. Each of those things cost money, which reduce profits. It is a balance act of spending enough money in those areas to keep consumers happy (but only just enough). In the 70s-2000's, US automakers had a skewed version of reality. They didn't spend too much money on those areas because they were still making killer profits. Part of the problem was the "Buy American" ideal. With people buying American even though they were increasingly crappy products, automakers had no initiative to increase quality. Why should they have, they were still making money hand over fist, and pouring money into quality would have only taken it out of their own profits and hurt them as compared to their competition that wasn't 'wasting' money on that. The problem is that it caught up with them. Late 80's early 90's fewer people felt that the motivation of "buying American" wasn't enough of a justification to keep shelling out money for unreliable undesirable cars. Increasing fuel prices (partially from the '73 oil crisis) also helped people justify making the switch. They began buying foreign more. By the time the automakers started to feel the pinch, it was becoming too late to make a quick turn around. Most cars have a multiyear development time. If you wanted to take a new direction, it can be almost a decade before those cars start making enough production to make a difference. Forward to 2010, you are starting to see that effect now. Even though trends were heading down in the 80's, US car makers were slow to make changes, let alone drastic ones, so things didn't really start to happen until much later. That said, some makers didn't even make changes as of 2010, and that is why we saw several companies close.
The reason 'Foreign' cars seem to be lagging behind is because they are at a different point in their cycle. They had made reliable cars for a long time, so they began to trim R&D and reliabilty to increase their profit margin. Now that they are starting to get bit, they will probably make a shift back (but that will take quite a few years).
So that is what you are perceiving.
Propaganda - Toyota????????
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I think people are now making a big deal out of the recall. Especially the customers, many of them are taking this advantage to file other complaints and to force Toyota to fix other problems for free. I worked in the service industry, and I know how cocky people can be. Is it really necessary to go through all these legal actions that we now see on media? Com'on. Many competitors are just now taking this opportunity to destroy Toyota, and I'm not surprised that they would do nasty things to hype this up. There is a problem, Toyota acknowledged it, and Toyota is going to fix it - done. Stop this media cr*p already.
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I agree.....in the past there were many american car company's recalls....
Stop Abusing Toyota just because of a huge recall....gas pedals wear out if you constantly floor your car when you don't really need to.....temperature and humidity can also affect it.
I understand that everyone would agree that Toyota did hide this problem and everyone would obviously accept that American cars are better.
The fact of the matter is that all car companies have to go through recalls. Toyota & Honda are definitely being attacked by the government especially LaHood. He's constantly making a big deal about this...
First he says to stop driving toyota's (even Obama agreed)
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/02/0â¦
Then He later apologies for his idiotic words....
http://www.azcentral.com/business/articlâ¦
I do understand that Toyota has included more than a million vehicles in this recall. Honda's wasn't even that severe....one incident triggered the whole situation & guess who made a public announcement.....YES LAHOOD.
http://www.koco.com/news/22537819/detailâ¦
Why didn't the government announce the GM recall... (more than 1.5 million vehicles)
http://www.usrecallnews.com/2009/04/nhtsâ¦
Chevy recall.... (905,000 vehicles)
http://www.autoguide.com/auto-news/2010/â¦
And yours truly Ford.... (more than 80,000 vehicles)
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/recalls04â¦
Toyota has made over 175 recalls within the year of 2000
Ford over 250+ (not too bad, very impressing, seems I can trust them)
Chevy over 700+
GM over 1000+
And you still love American Cars????
If Government did decide to make this public.............They're FINISHED. They have no money to make a recall.....sure they can do minor but major such as TOyota....they're gone.
Lahood and the transportation department are deliberately keeping this quiet just for the sake of keeping American car companies alive as well as aiding the economy. Oh sure the economy is going up as American car companies gain profit.....wait till Toyota starts firing people...UNEMPLOYMENT IS OFF THE CHART!
Toyota has employed hundreds of people, imagine them without jobs if Toyota left US. If they left we would be in an instant recession.
In some cases GM, Ford, Chevy needs Toyota for competition. It is because of Toyota Honda and Nissan GM, Ford and Chevy stand this good today....otherwise they would still use same old parts from 1990's.
Doesn't matter if Toyota made such a huge recall.....The downfall is that pretty soon Toyota will start firing workers and unemployment rates will increase. Look at the bright side....They will lose money and the CEO will have to invest into more safer technologies to make their vehicles better....
last time I checked GM begged the government for money, they showed up in their hybrid cars to prove them that they can improve.....lets see. Because of their irresponsibility I am losing my money as taxpayer. Why should I pay for their failures when I should worry about my savings, sending kids to college, keeping a roof over my family and feeding them.
This is all a media hype by the government to convince people to buy American cars....even if you have a Toyota just take it to the dealer and have your pedals fixed...it will only take 2 hours rather than you wasting more than $18,000 on a new car....Plus Toyota dealers are seriously listening to any complaints about their vehicles from numerous customers and providing quick and fast solution.
Every American car lover is being a bit too harsh on Toyota & Japanese cars....For your information....we need Toyota for Competition....Ford, Chevy GM watched how they rose to the top and now they're doing the same. STOP BRINGING UP WW2 as well...
Japanese cars are good, American Cars are good, all cars are good....mainly its human error which can end lives not cars.
An educated human can save lives.....especially their own (relating to the stick gas pedal...)
The witness who will testify, has no knowledge about cars....when her pedal was stuck she deliberately panicked (we all would) and constantly shifted into all the gears in her Lexus....L, 2, 3, 4 constantly gives power to the wheels.....she said the neutral didn't stop the car....why do you think it didn't stop the car....(because she kept shifting back to those gears....). She doesn't know anything about cars, she didn't even know anything about the Lexus's gears in her car.
She will deliberately attack toyota....."Shame on you, Toyota..."
I agree.....in the past there were many american car company's recalls....
Stop Abusing Toyota just because of a huge recall....gas pedals wear out if you constantly floor your car when you don't really need to.....temperature and humidity can also affect it.
I understand that everyone would agree that Toyota did hide this problem and everyone would obviously accept that American cars are better.
The fact of the matter is that all car companies have to go through recalls. Toyota & Honda are definitely being attacked by the government especially LaHood. He's constantly making a big deal about this...
First he says to stop driving toyota's (even Obama agreed)
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/02/0â¦
Then He later apologies for his idiotic words....
http://www.azcentral.com/business/articlâ¦
I do understand that Toyota has included more than a million vehicles in this recall. Honda's wasn't even that severe....one incident triggered the whole situation & guess who made a public announcement.....YES LAHOOD.
http://www.koco.com/news/22537819/detailâ¦
Why didn't the government announce the GM recall... (more than 1.5 million vehicles)
http://www.usrecallnews.com/2009/04/nhtsâ¦
Chevy recall.... (905,000 vehicles)
http://www.autoguide.com/auto-news/2010/â¦
And yours truly Ford.... (more than 80,000 vehicles)
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/recalls04â¦
Toyota has made over 175 recalls within the year of 2000
Ford over 250+ (not too bad, very impressing, seems I can trust them)
Chevy over 700+
GM over 1000+
And you still love American Cars????
If Government did decide to make this public.............They're FINISHED. They have no money to make a recall.....sure they can do minor but major such as TOyota....they're gone.
Lahood and the transportation department are deliberately keeping this quiet just for the sake of keeping American car companies alive as well as aiding the economy. Oh sure the economy is going up as American car companies gain profit.....wait till Toyota starts firing people...UNEMPLOYMENT IS OFF THE CHART!
Toyota has employed hundreds of people, imagine them without jobs if Toyota left US. If they left we would be in an instant recession.
In some cases GM, Ford, Chevy needs Toyota for competition. It is because of Toyota Honda and Nissan GM, Ford and Chevy stand this good today....otherwise they would still use same old parts from 1990's.
Doesn't matter if Toyota made such a huge recall.....The downfall is that pretty soon Toyota will start firing workers and unemployment rates will increase. Look at the bright side....They will lose money and the CEO will have to invest into more safer technologies to make their vehicles better....
last time I checked GM begged the government for money, they showed up in their hybrid cars to prove them that they can improve.....lets see. Because of their irresponsibility I am losing my money as taxpayer. Why should I pay for their failures when I should worry about my savings, sending kids to college, keeping a roof over my family and feeding them.
This is all a media hype by the government to convince people to buy American cars....even if you have a Toyota just take it to the dealer and have your pedals fixed...it will only take 2 hours rather than you wasting more than $18,000 on a new car....Plus Toyota dealers are seriously listening to any complaints about their vehicles from numerous customers and providing quick and fast solution.
Every American car lover is being a bit too harsh on Toyota & Japanese cars....For your information....we need Toyota for Competition....Ford, Chevy GM watched how they rose to the top and now they're doing the same. STOP BRINGING UP WW2 as well...
Japanese cars are good, American Cars are good, all cars are good....mainly its human error which can end lives not cars.
An educated human can save lives.....especially their own (relating to the stick gas pedal...)
The witness who will testify, has no knowledge about cars....when her pedal was stuck she deliberately panicked (we all would) and constantly shifted into all the gears in her Lexus....L, 2, 3, 4 constantly gives power to the wheels.....she said the neutral didn't stop the car....why do you think it didn't stop the car....(because she kept shifting back to those gears....). She doesn't know anything about cars, she didn't even know anything about the Lexus's gears in her car.
She will deliberately attack toyota....."Shame on you, Toyota..."
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