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Originally Posted by Dragoneye
Not this time...only uncontrollable acceleration. And for the record, Toyota HAS had a fire danger issue. A frame-rot issue, a transmission-blow-up issue...among others...And they're all recent.
The fact that people have not began to shy away from such a failure of a company both surprises and dissapoints me. The market is tilted in their favor by stupidity and misperception. :(
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In all seriousness- if you base your buying decisions on recalls, who would you turn to? And ya I know Toyota had a recall on their Lexi for bad fuel lines-however it looked like they realized the issue and moved on it fast. The floormats is a non-starter. It's only getting press because of the numbers involved. Toyota also has a current recall because they didn't put the GVWR label on the b-pillar. That one will surely be the end of Toyota.
I asked some non-car people what they thought of this recall and I basically got a shrug. I don't own a Toyota, but I have in the past. I thought they treated me pretty fairly-at least as fairly as any other make has treated me. I don't see what makes them 'dirty' aside from buy American jingoism. Now I hate Priuses with a passion, but otherwise Toyota seems to make reasonably solid cars with zero passion-they are commuting appliances.
*edit* Captain Awesome, I don't think they could make a release like that and have it hold up. It's been litigated many times that you can't really create a full release from all negligence of any kind.