A Prius with stuck accelerator glides to safety

TXgolfer said:
See the quote in post #45

From this article

FOXNews.com - Toyota 'Mystified' by Runaway Prius Case in California

There are some things that don't add up. Or that are strange.

I find it ironic the Prius driver was wearing a Corvette drivers club jacket....those two things don't seem to go together.:hmm:
Click to expand...

I think the MSM is trying to make Toyota vehicles the next evil "SUV" when on the news or radio you hear these horror stories about SUVs in accidents to somehow, subliminally, get people to think that all SUVs are bad to have so people won't buy them. Now, it's the Toyotas. Interesting timing when both GM and Chrysler companies are tanking and doing a bad job at sales, both owned by Obama administration, er, the govt. Won't work. People will just buy more Ford cars and trucks instead which made billions of dollars in profit last year, in the black.
 
kokonut said:
I think the MSM is trying to make Toyota vehicles the next evil "SUV" when on the news or radio you hear these horror stories about SUVs in accidents to somehow, subliminally, get people to think that all SUVs are bad to have so people won't buy them. Now, it's the Toyotas. Interesting timing when both GM and Chrysler companies are tanking and doing a bad job at sales, both owned by Obama administration, er, the govt. Won't work. People will just buy more Ford cars and trucks instead which made billions of dollars in profit last year, in the black.
Click to expand...

I am buying either a Ford or a Nissan this week. Time to trade in my F 150
 
TXgolfer said:
I am buying either a Ford or a Nissan this week. Time to trade in my F 150
Click to expand...

I have an 05 F150 Lariat w/ leather, my first ever vehicle with leather, haha. I wouldn't mind getting a 250 King Ranch. :D
 
Tousi said:
I have an 05 F150 Lariat w/ leather, my first ever vehicle with leather, haha. I wouldn't mind getting a 250 King Ranch. :D
Click to expand...

I like the King ranch addition as well.

I have had F 250s....no fun to park. 150s aren't fun to park either though. But that is my only complaint about Ford truck.

No vehicle has better A/C than a ford. I wrote a slogan for Ford based on it's A/C but I haven't heard back.

It was "Nothing Blows like a Ford"

Maybe I will hear something soon.
 
I saw CNN said "Tests didn't find Pruis problem" in video.

I need closed caption or alternator article similar to this one. :(
 
PowerON said:
I saw CNN said "Tests didn't find Pruis problem" in video.

I need closed caption or alternator article similar to this one. :(
Click to expand...

They tried to simulate the problem and couldn't. Read post 59 and there is an article about it.

Post 60 has strange stuff too
 
TXgolfer said:
I like the King ranch addition as well.

I have had F 250s....no fun to park. 150s aren't fun to park either though. But that is my only complaint about Ford truck.

No vehicle has better A/C than a ford. I wrote a slogan for Ford based on it's A/C but I haven't heard back.

It was "Nothing Blows like a Ford"

Maybe I will hear something soon.
Click to expand...


Hahaha, TX, that's cool when ur meaning the Ford truck's AC and I can certainly attest to that!.
 
kokonut said:
I think the MSM is trying to make Toyota vehicles the next evil "SUV" when on the news or radio you hear these horror stories about SUVs in accidents to somehow, subliminally, get people to think that all SUVs are bad to have so people won't buy them. Now, it's the Toyotas. Interesting timing when both GM and Chrysler companies are tanking and doing a bad job at sales, both owned by Obama administration, er, the govt. Won't work. People will just buy more Ford cars and trucks instead which made billions of dollars in profit last year, in the black.
Click to expand...

had to pounce on this and then tie it to MSM and Obama? naughty!
 
Anyone remember the deal with the Pinto? I think I'm having Deja Vu.
 
kokonut said:
Link?
Click to expand...

More things that make me say :hmm:


Quote:
Brian Pennings, a spokesman for the California Highway Patrol, said his agency's view that there is no evidence of a hoax is unchanged. The CHP does not plan to investigate the incident because there were no injuries or property damage.

Quote:

Gomez is the Lawyer for Prius man


Gomez said the best evidence that his client was frantically slamming the brakes is that the CHP officer smelled burning brakes and saw the lights on.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Gomez also represents the family of CHP Officer Mark Saylor, which sued Toyota this month in San Diego Superior Court.

Saylor was killed in August along with his wife, her brother and the couple's daughter after their Lexus accelerator became trapped by a wrong-size floor mat on a freeway in La Mesa, near San Diego. Their loaner car hit a sport utility vehicle and burst into flames


Hopefully a very strange coincidence
Click to expand...

:ugh2:
 
kokonut said:
Ah I see. I think people just simply do strange things and see an opportunity (or so they think) and do this just to bolster potential lawsuits??

:shrug:
Click to expand...

exactly. that would make a much better sense than this post, yes?
 
Jiro said:
exactly. that would make a much better sense than this post, yes?
Click to expand...

No. I still think some in the media are blowing this Toyota thing way overboard, and unnecessary. It isn't a coincidence that GM and Chrylser, owned by the Obama Corp., would love nothing more than to see Toyota sales get hurt hoping people would buy their cars instead. Yeah, right.

Hey, you don't have to like my comments.
:shrug:
 
Yeah....just like the media blew the deaths and the cover ups concerning the Pinto malfunctions way out of proportion!:roll:

I daresay that Toyota has been aware of this problem for some time. Cheaper to let it slide and deal with it on a case by case basis than it is to do a massive recall and fix the dangerous malfunction. It has happened before, and it appears it is happening again. Different car, different manufacturer, but many similarities in the stories. :hmm:

It really is a shame when someone has so much hatred for one man that they will attempt to minimize the dangers to many. It's not really that bad. Its just another Obama conspiracy. Geeze!
 
jillio said:
Yeah....just like the media blew the deaths and the cover ups concerning the Pinto malfunctions way out of proportion!:roll:

I daresay that Toyota has been aware of this problem for some time. Cheaper to let it slide and deal with it on a case by case basis than it is to do a massive recall and fix the dangerous malfunction. It has happened before, and it appears it is happening again. Different car, different manufacturer, but many similarities in the stories. :hmm:

It really is a shame when someone has so much hatred for one man that they will attempt to minimize the dangers to many. It's not really that bad. Its just another Obama conspiracy. Geeze!
Click to expand...


I'm glad I am mentally ill as long as you are around. :D
 
I think every auto brand has faced some kind of a recall notice. But lately people have been jumping on the Toyota bandwagon in the effort to try and somehow demonize that company. It isn't any wonder that Obama is getting into all this protectionism agenda, and Toyota seems to be one of their opportunistic targets.

From the Washington Post:

When I announced three years ago that Toyota would open a U.S. vehicle assembly plant in Blue Springs, Miss., I said Toyota was the world's premier automobile manufacturer. I still believe that.

Make no mistake, the safety and reliability concerns identified in some Toyota automobiles -- although they occur very infrequently -- are serious. It seems to me, however, that the company is doing everything it should as quickly as possible to make things right. This includes not just a full recall but also temporarily halting production in five plants to focus on the problem and repairing recalled vehicles. The company has taken significant steps to improve quality and reliability worldwide, and to increase the transparency of its communications with government officials and customers.

But as two House committees and one in the Senate prepare for hearings on Toyota's safety issues, I worry that there has been a rush to judgment. The way that Congress and the Obama administration respond to this controversy will have real economic consequences.

We cannot lose sight of the company's importance to America's economy -- and should not ignore its continued commitment to doing things the right way. Although Toyota was founded in Japan more than 70 years ago, after five decades of doing business in the United States it is as much an "American" car company as any other.
Click to expand...

.
.
.

The company's direct investment in the United States exceeds $18 billion, but it's not just American workers who profit. Eighty percent of Toyota vehicles sold in this country over the past 20 years are still on the road.

That's why I hope Congress will resist the temptation to attack Toyota simply to advance the interests of its American competitors. Toyota should not be blamed implicitly for the problems of Detroit's automakers. Moreover, the decision to bail out bankrupt General Motors and Chrysler with $60 billion from U.S. taxpayers has put Washington in an uncomfortable position. I know Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood to be an honorable man, but can these hearings be seen as impartial, focused on enforcing the rules and policing corporate behavior, when the federal government has stakes in two major car companies?
Click to expand...

Guess who wrote that piece?

With Congress nowadays, it isn't just a coincidence about the whole Toyota thing.
 
Back
Top