Toyota to recall more than 1.35 million cars worldwide

Good for Toyota to take these steps.

Please, recalls suck for everyone. If this were GM, Ford, Chrysler, or BMW you would likely be be calling for their heads for allowing this to happen.

ONLY after an accident. then the fire PROMPTS the passengers to get the hell out fast! ;)

TURBOSPYDER, I hope you have an extra pair of panties on hand. ChumpG37 is going to wet himself out of excitement over this news.

LOL! this is like Moe calling Curly "one of the smarter [sic] people around!"

i love hearing this stuff about toyota. It just shows that toyota is no better than anyone else out there. If anything they are rushing things to much and our starting to cut quality. Maybe more people realize it is a waste of money to buy a toyota or even a honda.

You gotta love predictable and unoriginal Turbospyder, who else would submit this?

No, it's not unflattering to Toyota or Japanese cars in general. Actually, it's unflattering for you. I just find it funny that almost every post you submit has either a negative article for Japanese makes or a positive take on a German automaker. Like I said, you're unoriginal and predictable and now I can also say that you're a hater too.

Yikes!...sucks to be Toyota in this situation...well at least they are gettin' the job done. Rather than seeing rides blow up or people running out of their rides covered in flames. Hey as the sayin goes..."more money, more problems!" By the way hey ChunkyG37, "how's your wife and MY kids?"...LMAO!!!

[http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090128/AUTO01/901280448/1148/rss25] Quote:"Toyota spokesman Brian R. Lyons says no one has reported a case where that has actually happened." This recall is rather preventive, Toyota always want to everything be absolutely perfect.

abcd, all manufacturers will do this...trust me. If an OEM spots a potential problem, even if no one has found it (yet), they usually run out to fix it, before it becomes a problem. The toyotas in recall are relatively new, try 10 years or 200,000KM..... Toyota (as well as all OEMs) knows better than to let this stuff sit. Either way, recalls happen. Toyota has been getting a poorer reputation lately, but I think alot of that has to do with the fact that their main US rivals (GM/Ford/maybeDodge) have come up in quality so that there isn't this massive buffer between Ford & Toyota or GM & Honda, etc. That and Toyota has grown so much in the past 10 years that there are going to be problems when you are that big. Being the biggest kid on the block ain't always easy.

[http://www.autoblog.com/2009/01/28/toyota-recalls-1-3m-yaris-models-which-begs-the-question-what/] Quote:"NHTSA has logged no reports of pad ignition in an actual consumer crash."

OH no, Toyota has recalls? I thought they were invincible and everything was a perfect build.

Well, Toyota's are perfect. I was reading liberalTreehuggingDouchebag.com and they said that Jesus drove a Toyota and that one of his miracles while on earth was to make Toyota perfect. JUST A JOKE GUYS!! (I can't wait for the flaming to ensue...)

Toyota and recalls are nothing new. Every manufacturer has them. Toyota's recalls have always been on the front-end, most of the time they are preventive recalls where they recognize a problem and try to fix it before it balloons out of control among their customers. And for all the people mocking a Toyota fan, you are annoying, and are not helping any situation at all.

not helping the situation? WHo cares what they say, business is business and dollars are dollars. Talk is cheap (usually its free). If this were GM or Ford or Chrysler then talk would be harmful, but in the end, its Toyota. Americans dont care, they will buy toyota no matter what. Unless Toyota has a problem where their engine spotaneously explode at a rate of 25% of new cars, then no one will care.

Every Automaker has problems. It just shows that no one is perfect. Where are the people who can't stay BMW in a sentence without mentioning problems?!

You sound like a child with many insecurities. Maybe you should actually go out and see the world instead making fun of something you have no idea about.

Okay I guess, but please don't do it again. This is not a joking matter, not for us anyways. To me it sounded very disrespectful. Anything but religion!

Thank you :) And yeah Lebanon is very beautiful in its landscape and people.. and the women.. best in the area lol. But they have a thing in Lebanon about looking wealthy, even if you're not.. Most of them are average, but because of the way they dress, you would never guess ;)
If it wasn't for the civil wars and wars with Israel, it could have been 10 times better.

you are only HALF right, huu. yes, every mfgr looks for the CHEAPEST supplier. but at both toyota and honda, that is NOT THE ONLY criterion by which they choose suppliers. price aside, they have minimum quality standards. |||

which show in LONG TERM durability. most makers' vehicles reach a rate of 100 problems per 100 vehicles at about 5 years. fords last for 7 years. hondas are good for slightly over 10 years. meaning there is a chance that quite a few 9-yr old hondas have had NO PROBLEMS
AT ALL. (and a few mite've had more than one; these are overall averages.) |||

toyotas only get to the 100 problems/100 vehicles after SEVENTEEN YEARS! compare that with the 'assemblage of cheapest parts' that everyone other than honda and toyota throws together!

It's a numbers game folks. The more cars you produce and sell, the larger your recalls will be. But truth be told, Toyota is still number 1 or 2 in reliability. That's something the big 3 could never touch. Ford's coming around.

correct. i posted the above reply before even reading this. which backs me up. ford is #3 in the long-term reliability of its products.

Yep! On this site there are only two kinds of people...haters,like Turbospyder and the passionate like David999. After all just keep your eyes on the guys who release the negative news to help promote their hate hoping the masses will follow. If you really want to bring down a company like Toyota you'd have to advertise like they do on TV and reverse 60 years of Toyota loyalist influence. Of course you would also have to have had millions to billions in reserved cash, which Toyota still has, regardless of what the negative folks out there are telling you.