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835 messages, Last post on Sep 19, 2007 at 11:35 AM
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Replying to: oldguy70 (Jun 11, 2007 3:05 pm)
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recent quality problems were not just a glitch, but a systemic problem, at least according to Toyota officials: http://www.autoweek.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070625/FREE/70625001/1528/newsletter01 This is the second "mea culpa, we are now going to change things at Toyota" in less than a year. I wonder if this will be the last. Will Toyota become a victim of its own cost-cutting efforts? This is certainly a disease many other carmakers have fallen prey to in the last decade. On the plus side, their hope with the new development process is to widen Toyota's quality lead again. "Don Esmond, Toyota Motor Sales' senior vice president of automotive operations, says Toyota was worried about losing its leadership position in the quality wars. "We reallocated our resources to get quality back under control," Esmond says. "We need to stay the leader and increase the gap again." |
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Just curious if the Tundra woes caused any loss in sales for June.
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Replying to: gagrice (Jul 03, 2007 9:09 am) mfrs. monthly figures are vehicles produced NOT vehicles SOLD to the end consumer !!!!!!!!!!! There were/are posts about this over in the smart shopper threads............
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I remember reading that out of the 450 thousand Camrys that were produced last year, only 1 actually was bought by a consumer because he couldn't get the deal he wanted on a Malibu. The rest were crushed, yet Toyota claimed 450+ thousand sales. Those bastards!
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Replying to: hotel1 (Jul 03, 2007 9:56 am) |
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Replying to: anythngbutgm (Jul 03, 2007 10:09 am) Do you have a link for this info as it's the first I've heard of it and want to verify this for myself. Thanks |
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Seems the 07 tundra is having transmission issues: http://www.tundrasolutions.com/forums/tundra/103690-2007-6-speed-transmission-failures/ http://www.tundrasolutions.com/forums/tundra/97561-6-spd-automatic-transmission-problem/ |
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The best car company in the world has forums about solutions for Tundra problems already? They must just have been an errant snapring problem that they can blame on their supplier. Oh and the camshafts that are bad; same thing. All the other problems in other cars? Just supplier and customers that haven't adjusted to their new vehicles yet.
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Replying to: imidazol97 (Jul 05, 2007 4:44 am) According to the Edmunds.com automotive Web site, GM had about $3,600 worth of incentives on the Sierra and Silverado 1500 models, but Toyota bumped its Tundra incentives to an average of just over $5,000. How about them Avalons, down almost 18% for the YTD. I did not know they were having problems. A long row of unsold 2007 Avalons sits at a Toyota dealership in the southeast Denver suburb of Centennial, Colo., on Sunday, June 17, 2007 I counted 13 of Toyota's 29 models are in the negative for the YTD. Now with Tundra transmissions failing??? I think some heads may roll in the QC department.
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