Toyota running overtime at all its North American plants to cope with demand

The bottom line is that Toyota makes a great product for the money.

Not according to the IIHS crash tests etc...

And how many millions of people pay attention to the IIHS crash tests? By the time they get close to putting a dent in Toyotas/Lexuses long hard earned reputation it will be old news. Hang around you'll begin a defector bud! it'll be the best thing that ever happen to ya.

I would like to see a blog about the quality of foreign automakers within their own model lineup and perspective transplant factories. More specifically, compare the quality of their factories versus cars built in Japan. I've never had any problems with my G35s, but leading magazine or car review groups note the Infiniti Q56 as being troublesome. Is it because that Infiniti Q56 SUV and the Nissan Titan are built within the United States. If the VIN# begins with a "J", then it was built in Japan. Just wondering if it's the Toyota's mostly built within the states. I've never had any problems with my Toyota's with a "J" VIN#.

Go ahead make money off of American consumers while you prohibit American made cars from the Japanese cash-for-clunkers program. You think Americans will still buy your cars when suddenly there is a 15% tariff on all Japanese cars? Since we aren't allowed to sell cars in Japan anyway, go ahead and tariff all American cars by 50% and see who wins this little battle. As for jobs at the Toyota plants being lost due to dropped volume, this just means that American workers will have to get jobs at the Ford plant who now has to double its shift due to increasing volume.

Nobody likes a trade war but when you do something so blatantly transparent as what the Japanese is doing, then there will be repercussions.

oh, bitter are we?

but yes, trade wars ARE mutually self destructive. it was the trade war STARTED by the U.S. in the 1930s with the smoot-hartly act which ignited japanese imperialism/expansionism to MAKE UP for lost trade.

this ultimately led to pearl harbor, and the rest is history.

Dont be fooled...Americans have to have their hands in just about everything these days. gkearns56 is right...check the VIN...if its made mostly in the states..good luck! With the exception of Lexuses latest setbacks, gas pedal or jamming floor mats or whatever thats all about. Toyota will quickly bounce back from their latest woes because of their excellent engineering prowess and top notch build qaulity. ToMoCo would have to literally burn to the ground and have a match lit to all of its past & current achievements to fall at the feet of its haters, some of which will soon become Defectors to future Toyota or Lexus vehicles.

toyota "problems" affect less than 0.5% of the cars they sell. used to be, detroit would've KILLED to get a defect rate that low.

how many cars did FORD recently recall, for cruise control units that not only ran amok, but could set the vehicle afire even when PARKED?

not every single recalled car has the suspected problem. only a FRACTION. the mass recalls are PRECAUTIONARY.

exactly how many cases were there of runaway toyotas? how many were actually due to a design flaw, and how many due to idiots who don't know how to shift to N? the mass recall is just to IDIOT PROOF the cars against such dimwits.

i KNOW FIRSTHAND about recalls. i used to have a 2000 ford focus, the KING of recalls. after awhile, i just examined the supposed 'problem' myself and IGNORED the notices.

and btw, except where the mfgr TRULY screws up, most recalls are mainly to "inspect" for POTENTIAL problems.

in this case, the toyota engineers found NO problem. and the fix of shortening the gas pedal is just PRECAUTIONARY, for idiot proofing. non-idiot toyota owners will likely IGNORE the notices.

I thought the San Antonio plant has been running under capacity for a while now. Did demand suddenly jump for the Tundra or did the closing of the NUMMI plant make the San Antonio plant need to up production of that model?

"Still too high..." but that's the extent to which toyota will go, just to IDIOT PROOF the vehicles.

see my comment above. i still postulate that the actual number of "incidents" was in the less than 0.5% range.