Reply #14: From a proud UAW family here, screw Toyota and their brutal management

[divideandconquer]

Toyota has much to apologize for.

Toyota Settles California Emissions Suit
March 7, 2002
Toyota has agreed to pay about $7.9 million to settle a California lawsuit that charged about 330,000 vehicles had faulty emission control systems. A similar suit filed by the U.S. Justice Department it still pending. It seeks the recall of 1.8 million vehicles.

The federal case could lead to as much as $58 billion in penalties for Toyota, the world's third-largest automaker.
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<http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news02/toyota_air.html>

Faulty, hell, they cheated and then lawyered their way out.
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Lawsuit Threatens to Halt Sales of Toyota Prius

Bloomberg reports, "Toyota Motor Corp., the world's biggest seller of autos powered by a combination of gasoline and electricity, faces a patent-infringement claim that may result in a U.S. import ban on its Prius and other hybrid models." Paice LLC, a small engineering design firm, claims to hold patents on the concept of a hybrid gasoline-electric drivetrain.

The company, Bloomberg notes, "won a jury verdict in 2005 that the Prius and hybrid Highlander and Lexus RX400h sport-utility vehicles used Paice inventions related to drivetrains." In that case, Toyota was ordered to pay Paice $4.3 million in damages, but was not ordered to stop importing or selling hybrid cars.

Autoblog reports, "This time, Paice is taking a slightly different tack, seeking to get importations of Toyota's super popular Prius hybrid (along with all the rest of the hybrids from Toyota and Lexus) stopped by U.S. Customs right at the docks," in a complaint filed with the U.S. International Trade Commission.

<http://usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/cars-trucks/daily-news/090908-Lawsuit-Threatens-to-Halt-Sales-of-Toyota-Prius/>

Stealing other people ideas, long history of this.
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Then there are the rust problems on Tacoma and Tundra truck frames going back for over a decade. Hundreds of links to this Toyota disaster
<http://www.tundrasolutions.com/forums/1gen-tundra/127462-tundra-frame-rust-recall-3/>
<http://yotatech.com/f120/2009-tacoma-rust-after-2-months-178726/>
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Then there are the sludge problems, I personally saw a Lexus LX300 with 40k miles and a shot engine.