Oh What A Feeling!

In light of recent events, people have been asking me if I would ever buy another Toyota. I was fortunate enough to not have my car recalled. To this day, my Toyota Prius is the best car I’ve ever owned. I would definitely buy another Toyota but I'm thinking I will not have to for a very long time.

I think the current headlines regarding Toyota are a media witch hunt, possibly even a conspiracy to hurt the business of what was the number one car dealer in America. I question if these recent news reports are a ploy orchestrated by the government to boost sales of American cars, cars that are inferior in fuel efficiency and in cases such as GM’s are owned by our government.

Two weeks ago, GM recalled 1.3 million sedans. Ten years ago, I had a Ford Fuckus that had 14 recalls. One of those recalls said something along the lines of “Your car may lose power and completely shut down when negotiating a right turn uphill.” The fuel gage was bad. The tank never stopped the pump when filling the tank, causing frequent overflows. The fuel pump blew at around 28,000 miles. Where was the blowout media coverage on those issues? Surely my car could not have been the only one that had these problems.

How quickly we forget the cover up that occurred between Ford and Firestone only a decade ago. I find it amusing that many people who are burning Toyota at the stake, clutching their pearls and discussing the poor ethical decisions that the company made, are the same people who have no problem jumping into their Explorers and Escapes. When their bullshit is called, their response is, “Toyota should have learned their lesson from Ford. They’re just out to make money and do not care about their consumers.” If I used this logic for everything that I chose to buy, I would have an empty house. Take it from someone who said she would never join Curves because they support pro-life organizations. The real issue was within. My lazy ass just didn’t want to join a gym. I have long since given up on the corporate ethics. I find the phrase oxymoronic. At the end of the day, corporations exist to make money and make their shareholders happy. I don’t like it. I’m pleasantly pleased when a corporation makes an ethically beneficial decision. But I’m not holding my breath. That’s just the way it is.

Even more enlightening are the findings of an investigation that occurred after a driver of a 2008 model Toyota Prius was chased by cops and claimed to a 911 dispatcher that the accelerator was stuck. Preliminary results show that, to bluntly sum up the report, the driver was full of shit. Toyota’s statement about these preliminary findings can be seen here. This guy was such an idiot that he didn’t even realize that the model that he was driving did not fall under the recall stipulations as the part that was causing the accelerator to stick was not manufactured at the same plant or under the same circumstances. My guess is that he got caught speeding and thought he could get out of a ticket by crying, “Bad car!” Now that’s a good one. If only these reports had come out last year when I was pulled over for speeding. Hopefully this guy will get in trouble. What a jerk!