Toyota suspends sale of 8 models.

[tjts1]

I'm still looking forward to this one.

[Brinkley]

Now is the time for a company to step up and show Toyota the meaning of the word "bland".

[TimKninja]

Anybody whom doesn't have the fucking common sense to shift their car into neutral when the car is "out of control" shouldn't be driving in the first place .

That lady whom had enough time to call police to tell her her fucking Lexus was out of control shouldn't have been driving in the first place...you have enough time to call the cops, but can't think to turn of the ignition or put the car in neutral, or even L?

Give me a fucking break. Take out your floor mats and DEAL WITH IT.

I'm stuck in a 03 Corolla til I find an E30 Shell. I'm 6 foot 3 inches and the seat doesn't properly adjust to fit me. 0-60 in 10+ seconds.....

I need an E30.

[drift]

Lol, because most Toyota here are now .... Made in USA.
Yea, as bad as GM , Ford, etc.

[Iain]

If the political bullshit stops they have half a chance.

[87e30]

With all the politics going on in the company at the moment, I can tell you what was written in that story has been taken out of context. They are losing shitloads of cash and selling a fraction of the cars they wanted to be selling compared to their projections for these last couple of years. Building those plants in the US is to blame for this - they weren't expecting the sub-prime shit to hit the fan and got fucked to the tune of a few billion dollars.

One of their big problems is their staff and their introspective, narrow views. The company are generally staffed by packs of drooling, incompetent anus-fingerers. They have these Toyota mantras and sayings (Kaisan, Nemawashi, etc) that everyone follows like some kind of demented religion (more like a cult). Problem is that everyone follows it so narrowly that they end up believing their own press releases, getting hugely insular/incestuous and generally missing the giant fucking elephant in the room.

It came as a shock to many in TMCA that their over-priced, dynamically lacklustre and completely unappealing TRD-branded cars weren't selling. You could have a body-kitted supercharged V6 Camry for the same coin as an HSV ClubSport R8 (RWD, 6.3L V8, 430hp, 6-speed), but the TRD had three-quarters of the power, couldn't stop or handle as well as the HSV, was far more expensive to service and was twice as slow as the HSV in the acceleration tests. For the same coin. And senior managers at TMCA marketing & sales seriously couldn't work out why it failed...

While Toyota's short-term debts are huge, their long-term viability is still good. The top dogs are now realising that their Kaisans, Nemawashis and the like don't suit a modern car company - they are running the company pretty much exactly how Chrysler and GM were being run in the 60s, just with more soy mocha chino half-tofu lattes and buzz words. One thing Toyota doesn't do well is change and it's completely mind-fucking a lot of the powerbrokers in the company in Japan, leading to a lot of hoo-ha in the media and starting rumours that there is malcontent among senior Toyota officials and that the company is doomed. It's not, really, they're just going through the shock of realising their founding principles need to change for them to survive the next 20 years.

Another problem is that Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) is internally known as the Toyota Meeting Company due to tying its staff up with 8 hours of meetings per day, before they even get the chance to go back to their desks and do their fucking job. It's fucking retarded and the top brass are now finally starting to see this and see how wasteful of company money it is. This is more fuel to their fire to change the corporate policies and structures.

I'm lucky I was on the agency side and didn't have to actually work at the HQ because i probably would have gone postal. I'm going to stop now because I'm about to start ranting about the company and the shit-eating ballsacks that work there...

Interesting. Hopefully they churn out some cool cars from it all!

[Iain]

This was from an article I read from the CEO. He was telling people that they were falling quickly and needed to make more interesting and fewer cars ASAP. I think it was a bit of a shock to many of the upper positions with in the company.

With all the politics going on in the company at the moment, I can tell you what was written in that story has been taken out of context. They are losing shitloads of cash and selling a fraction of the cars they wanted to be selling compared to their projections for these last couple of years. Building those plants in the US is to blame for this - they weren't expecting the sub-prime shit to hit the fan and got fucked to the tune of a few billion dollars.

One of their big problems is their staff and their introspective, narrow views. The company are generally staffed by packs of drooling, incompetent anus-fingerers. They have these Toyota mantras and sayings (Kaisan, Nemawashi, etc) that everyone follows like some kind of demented religion (more like a cult). Problem is that everyone follows it so narrowly that they end up believing their own press releases, getting hugely insular/incestuous and generally missing the giant fucking elephant in the room.

It came as a shock to many in TMCA that their over-priced, dynamically lacklustre and completely unappealing TRD-branded cars weren't selling. You could have a body-kitted supercharged V6 Camry for the same coin as an HSV ClubSport R8 (RWD, 6.3L V8, 430hp, 6-speed), but the TRD had three-quarters of the power, couldn't stop or handle as well as the HSV, was far more expensive to service and was twice as slow as the HSV in the acceleration tests. For the same coin. And senior managers at TMCA marketing & sales seriously couldn't work out why it failed...

While Toyota's short-term debts are huge, their long-term viability is still good. The top dogs are now realising that their Kaisans, Nemawashis and the like don't suit a modern car company - they are running the company pretty much exactly how Chrysler and GM were being run in the 60s, just with more soy mocha chino half-tofu lattes and buzz words. One thing Toyota doesn't do well is change and it's completely mind-fucking a lot of the powerbrokers in the company in Japan, leading to a lot of hoo-ha in the media and starting rumours that there is malcontent among senior Toyota officials and that the company is doomed. It's not, really, they're just going through the shock of realising their founding principles need to change for them to survive the next 20 years.

Another problem is that Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) is internally known as the Toyota Meeting Company due to tying its staff up with 8 hours of meetings per day, before they even get the chance to go back to their desks and do their fucking job. It's fucking retarded and the top brass are now finally starting to see this and see how wasteful of company money it is. This is more fuel to their fire to change the corporate policies and structures.

I'm lucky I was on the agency side and didn't have to actually work at the HQ because i probably would have gone postal. I'm going to stop now because I'm about to start ranting about the company and the shit-eating ballsacks that work there...

[xwill112x]

like 7 is much better??^^

[bmwsone01]

They are pretty messed up.

I thought 5 word posts were not allowed???

[87e30]

Ummmmm....

I used to work with Toyota and I can tell you they're not going under. They're not doing as well as the Koreans or VAG, but they're certainly not down with GM & Chrysler.

This was from an article I read from the CEO. He was telling people that they were falling quickly and needed to make more interesting and fewer cars ASAP. I think it was a bit of a shock to many of the upper positions with in the company.

[HarryPotter]

Sofas on wheels.

That really doesn't sound all that bad to be honest.

[Jean]

Anyone who buys a Camry or Corolla deserves to die anyway :hitler:

Sofas on wheels.

[HarryPotter]

Toyota, Toyota rocks!

[Iain]

Toyota is having a freak out session. They believe they are going under and need to completely rethink business in order to stay alive.

As to whether they are right, I have no idea.

Ummmmm....

I used to work with Toyota and I can tell you they're not going under. They're not doing as well as the Koreans or VAG, but they're certainly not down with GM & Chrysler.

[Holland]

Toyota is having a freak out session. They believe they are going under and need to completely rethink business in order to stay alive.

As to whether they are right, I have no idea.

They are getting the idea in their heads that sports cars are good again so if they do go that route it might save them.