Just when you think the car company smart enough to work its way to No. 1 seller in the world couldn't get any dumber about either actual safety issues on its vehicles or public relations perceptions thereunto, it proves people like me wrong.
For at least this car company, the "Japanese way" is looking more and more like the General Motors or Ford way.
Sticking accelerators? Check, on more vehicle types than previously announced, and with different, new causes than previously announced.
A former lawyer of your own company suing you? Check.
Numerous confidential, non-disclosure lawsuit settlements? Check.
Reselling lemon cars? Check.
Read the full story; Toyota comes of as pretty slimy. You might rethink a Toyota buying decision in the future.
Disclosure: I own a Corolla. Love it. It's old enough to be from before most of the problems Toyota has tried to hide.
And, that gets to the root of the problem. Toyota has, perhaps, grown too fast for its own good, and hence, a lot of its recent safety shortcuts.
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