TOYOTA: A QUALITY CAR, DON’T THINK SO

I have never been backward in coming forward with my disdain for Japanese cars. I find their designs bland and if any car that was built only to last five years it is a Japanese made car. In fact in Japan owners must surrender their cars for wrecking once they hit that age. The “Mahogany rows of the American operations of Japanese car manufacturers are full of discarded or disgruntled ex employees of Ford, GM and Chrysler. With the assistance of selfish Southern State politicians, the media and Japanese money (Like us they did have some once!) America has progressively been brainwashed into thinking the big three were no longer able to assemble a bike let alone a car and Toyota and their Japanese mates were now the experts. Now listen, being the owner of three beautiful Pontiacs, I readily concede I am biased, but in saying that there are good reasons for being so. Yes, with the first energy crisis in the seventies American auto manufacturers lost their way a little, but over the past twenty years they have returned with a vengeance. Unfortunately again the media and other so-called expert critics of the American automobile have done n excellent short-selling American expertise.

Here comes my cynical laugh. Where is the media now Toyota is recalling 3.8 million of their cars to remove and replace the floor mats and adjust the accelerator pedals because of a huge number of fatal accidents being caused by the mats jamming the accelerator pedals? Nowhere to be seen. The few who have reported on the largest recall ever were happy to go to print with Toyota making “no comment”! Could you imagine if GM were recalling their Cadillac’s for the same reason and came out with a “no comment”? We would be told here is the very reason why we should have let GM go their grave instead of bailing them out.

The mats on my Pontiacs are secured to the floor. There is no chance they can come loose and replicate the hell many Toyota drivers have been subjected to. What a shame truths like this Toyota story are hidden from our society. For me it becomes another reason why I will never be seen behind the wheel of Toyota or any other Japanese car for that matter. I simply feel they do not hold a candle to the American Pontiacs in my stable!

Tags: Cadillac, Chrysler, Ford, GM, Pontiac, Toyota