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Originally Posted by DGthe3

If it was being done to benefit GM and Chrysler, why are Ford and Honda looking to be the big gainers out of it? Shouldn't such a conspiracy be constructed so that the only result is that you win? Seems sorta basic to me. If the goal were to give sales to GM and Chrysler, I would pass trade laws to cut off the supply of imported vehicles leaving a vacuum in the market for domestics to fill. Then I would seek to destroy Ford's reputation. This would open up millions of sales to GM and Chrysler, and only GM and Chrysler.

When opportunity knocks... knock the other guy down. I'm sure many a car company is going to benefit from Toyota's failure. But the ones who own GM and Chrysler are the ones holding congressional hearings. (admit it, you couldn't get away with this if your company was anything but a government... holding your competition accountable for their actions. That's the job of the consumers.)

And what about the fact that Toyota has covered up this problem (and others), lied about its causes, and blamed its customers, and blamed its suppliers? What about the fact that Toyota has had more unintended acceleration incidents than everyone else combined? Couldn't that be enough cause for the government to take interest? Wasn't it a conflict of interest for congressmen who had 'transplants' in their state to hammer the domestics in late 2008?

As if this is a first. I may have been born in the morning, but it wasn't yesterday morning.

Question, before this whole recall crap that hit this year... what was the overall opinion of Toyota in the world? (yeah, I believe it was highly respected as a quality auto maker. You've been listening to too many biased critics that are praying for Toyota to fail)

Originally Posted by dannkimmel

only problem with this idea is that the feds are just as much at fault as toyota!!

I believe you made my point... government intervention into a free market doesn't fix things. (It just funds special interests)