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Originally Posted by Wesman
Thats one company out of hundreds. The evidence is overwhelming against Toyota, there were even internal company documents showing the coverup and how much money Toyota saved by covering up the problem. They deserve to go out of business, these are peoples lives at stake.
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I deal with many Japanese expats on a daily basis, as well I have experience with other Japanese companies through my family as well. I'm not Japanese, but Italian-American, but I still take offense to you stereotyping these people based on some internal memos on a perceived safety issue that got blown out of proportion. EVERY company does that. Ford and GM both did it, read up on this before commenting. I'm NOT a Toyota fan by any means, but I am a fan of fairness and how they were blackballed was unfair, as much as I wanted to see it happen.
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If the defective throttle systems didn't hold the throttle open for no reason in the first place, drivers wouldn't have to worry about pushing the brake pedal to try and stop the car from accelerating out of control!! Not only that, but Toyota brakes are shitty and undersized to begin with that all it takes is a couple hard brake applications for them to get hot get hot and they fail completely.
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The throttle wasn't held open except in the case of some sticky floormats which they acknowledged. The sticking throttle in many cases wasn't, do some google searches you can see a more detailed explanation, but the basic gist is there really wasn't a problem with sticky accelerators, it was a problem with the floormats and widespread group panic mentality. The same group panic that drove SUV prices into the toilet as soon as gas hit 5 bucks a gallon last year.
And those shitty undersized brakes are the same as the brakes most average cars in America have. There has been nothing ever shown that the brakes on their boring beige cars are any worse than the brakes on every other brands boring beige car, and are perfectly fine for normal road use.
As I said I'm no Toyota fan, they've gotten away for too many years producing automotive appliances instead of real cars, but if you're gonna call them out at least get your facts straight.