BREAKING NOW: Toyota Makes Bold Move And Suspends Sales Of 8 Vehicles

Wow...

Honestly that takes guts to do that. It is easy to minimize it but this is EXACTLY the right move.

If handled right will be the similar to the Tylenol recall where they maintained the integrity of the brand name.

Tylenol actually was able to use the publicity of that recall to become a house hold name. Toyota already is well known.

Tylenol was already a household name at that time.

They were fairly large, but no where near the size they grew to shortly after the recall.

Actually Toyota was legally required by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to stop selling the cars. They did NOT volunteer to stop selling the vehicles.They actually decided to wait five days also to stop selling the cars.Last week the company issued the advance notice of a safety recall, but continued to sell the vehicles that needed attention.So being required to stop selling certain cars doesnt take guts because your being forced to do it.

Toyota is going down....
Who will buy a car that kills people.....
Chinese must feel good about themselves saying "Toyota does same thing as we do....kill people with cars we make."

it's cause they don't use union employees

Sorry...should've said they don't use UAW employees.

Did you just actually post a link to an article that supports reducing union pay so that VW can make more money? Glad you can see the light.

Don't keep showing the floormat.
It's not the floormat!

I can put a brick underneath it and it will apply to all cars. Would you show it when your favourite car makes the headline?

I bet badgewhore is on suicide watch after reading this.

Really badgewhore I thought it was suck on BMW nuts.

UAW you seem to have a real MAN/BOY focus in your posts. That's pretty Freudian.......

Actually it's one of Toyota suppliers products that is in question and is currently under investigation. Like I've been saying for about a year now it's a matter of time before we hear Toyota breaking news of trying to manufacture as many parts as possible inhouse. This my friends will be a very difficult feat. Of course this would be ideal for Toyota because they would gain even higher profitability and increase their product quality control big time! My hats off to Mr. Akio Toyota for sending out the message we care for our customers enough to stop sales and production until we absolutely have a fix. That my friends is manufacture loyalty and responsibility at its finest!

You fail to realize that most manufacturers get all of their components from the same sources? This spreads manufacturing, research and tool costs among a far greater base of cars. By producing a greater number of things inhouse, Toyota would be drying up American jobs, lose out on profitability, as well as fall behind on the competition in research (unless they keep pumping billions and billions into manufacturing research).

Blah blah blah, more excuses and spin. It doesnt matter if its their part or a supplier part; their cars are putting lives in danger, and in almost 2 dozen cases, taking them. If it was 'responsibility' at its finest, then it wouldnt be happening in the first place.

Always remember. Everyone has their own views. Just because one person says something, it doesn't mean others have to or will agree. This site has some people with certain roles. Designation is already known so I don't need to pair any titles with names.

Anyways, my friend who works in a shop of a Toyota dealership said there are two types of pedals that were installed on the recalled vehicles. I don't think all have the problem. If it's not branded with something that starts with a D then it shouldn't be a problem. Unless you are a cheap person and want to go in and complain to get a free oil change. That's economy for you.

joe_lemon:

"You fail to realize that most manufacturers get all of their components from the same sources?"

WRONG, as usual. SOME suppliers service multiple manufacturers; the inverse is NOT necessarily true.

BEFORE toyota stopped relying on ONLY japanese suppliers, they had NOWHERE the problems they've had in recent years.

here's the basic reason the D3 made such crappy products before the japanese forced them to up their game:
1) the detroit culture was to have all potential suppliers bid against each other for supplier contracts.
2) the contracts always went to THE LOWEST BIDDER.
3) sometimes, a company would knowingly bid BELOW their known cost, JUST to land the contract. they'd then ask for 'adjustments' so they wouldn't go broke. and they'd usually get it, 'cuz the mfgrs. would NOT like to see supply interruptions.

4) ergo: ASIDE FROM drivetrains and other inhouse parts, detroit cars were essentially assemblages of THE CHEAPEST PARTS they could buy.

toyota asked for bids too, but they were NOT SLAVES to the lowest bidders. they also had MINIMUM QUALITY standards. which they have since had to lower, so they can (for political and PR reasons) claim certain percentages of "american content."

and in recent years, this has now come to BITE THEM in the ass!

and THAT explains at least 80% of THE REASON for all this!

lol xyzz have you already forgot about toyotas move to get their current suppliers to cut costs by 30%?

from the deboosts, seems a lot of people did not like this REVELATION of how detroit DID operate before. this was revealed in a book summarizing mfgrs across the globe, sponsored by M.I.T.

the D3 obviously HAVE upped their game since. but this was a primary and true reason for past crappiness.

from another source: the D3 standards for parts merely required that the failure rate during the WARRANTY PERIOD not be excessive. toyota would have all parts tested UNTIL FAILURE. THEN determine whether or not they met toyota's standards. so many parts acceptable by detroit standards, would not meed toyota standards. (toyota would evaluate parts submitted by different suppliers, before final contract awards.)

would not meet...

Still doesn't seem like toyota understands where the problem lies.

If they really cared about there customers they would have done this 4 years ago.

Yeah they should've recalled the 2009-10 corolla 4 years ago.

Okay then 6 years ago starting with the avalon!

It is not fair to blame the parts suppliers, there are alot of other suppliers that supply pedal assemblies to other car manufacturers. Yet they don't have the problem toyota does. If toyota would properly engineer their cars with safety mechanisms built in to their electronic systems then they would not be in this mess!

see the other thread about ford recalling THEIR vans sold in china, with pedals from the SAME american supplier.

not having a throttle cut-out programmed in when the brakes are hit, actually reflects confidence in COMPETENT drivers and reliable gas pedal assemblies. with reliable pedals, the cut-out would be completely UNnecessary.

and in fact, SKILLED drivers actually PREFER there be no cut-out. there ARE times when one wants to (moderately) apply the gas and brakes at the same time. not necessarily just for drag racing, but also in every low traction conditions.

the idiot drivers (and supplier) will now force another DUMBING DOWN of computer controls!

Depending on how long, this could raise the value of toyota preowned vehicles affected. The demand will likely remain through this.

Toyota fans where are you? When was the last time a Manufacturer pulled 8 vehicles off of the dealership floor? Answer? Never!

When people say that Toyota builds the best cars they do not realize how retarded they are sounding. LOL!!!

And has nobody noticed that GM has NOT stopped selling the Vibe?

what are you talking about? They are shutting down the entire Pontiac Brand.

They do not produce the Vibe anymore,but from what the news says,GM does sell the Vibe,all six of them they have left on lots. They are selling a black one here in Yonkers,NY. Maybe we got one of the six that are left,not sure.

"One Pontiac model is included in the recall as well -- the Pontiac Vibe -- but GM said it only has six of these models available on dealer lots."

1.5 million jobs vs dozens of deaths? You decide.

And it isn't 1.5 million jobs. More like 37,000. Toyota employes 37,000 People in the United States. Where did you get your 1.5 million number from? Did you just make that number up? Why must people insist on spreading garbage?

Those numbers are assuming that the dealers won't turn into used car dealers or get assimilated by other brands, and that Toyota's suppliers only supply Toyota. They don't only supply Toyota, and the decrease in Toyota sales will only cause other manufacturer sales to increase.

i predict this will cause only a TEMPORARY dip in toyota sales. if the plants resume production and shipping within, say 14 days, the interruption will not be significant.

if anything, the sales stop will create an enlarged POOL of PENT-UP DEMAND. these are after all, the MOST POLULAR toyota vehicles.

it's not like thousands of people NEED a new toyota TODAY. or even this week. especially if they were gonna trade an older toyota, which is good for some 20 YEARS of reliable service.

as with the Tylenol case in the past, most intelligent people will see this was NOT TOYOTA's fault, but a third party (supplier; in tynlenol case, the tamperer). and actually feel MORE sympathetic and loyal than ever!

No mention yet of similar parts in the Lexus product. Do they use the same equippment? Audi did a poor job of handling they're unintended accelleration PR hopefully Toyotas learned a lesson from them.

Vroom! Vroom!

lol oh huu, blindly defending Toyota yet again, even when this wasn't a voluntary recall. Why don't you try stating that the government agencies regulating vehicles must be wrong and out to get Toyota? lol

no kudos are deserved. they were forced to do this by NTSB.

ole joe_idiot is 180-degrees OFF again!

huu WAS NOT "defending toyota" but actully piling on more criticisms.

to my knowledge, ford hasn't killed anyone. toyota, on the other hand, has a number of frightening deaths to their credit.

As opposed to the friendly comforting deaths?

800: frightening, as in an out of control car the catapults you to your death at 100mph over the course of several minutes. versus passing away of old age asleep in your bed.

CTS what?

Huh, the CTS is a GM product using nothing related to this Toyota recall. Are we just having a knee jerk attack on GM?

huu, CTS is taking the heat because Denso, which built the same part from the SAME toyota spec requiremnets, did NOT build pedal assemblies which could crap out at 38k miles.

supposedly, they have made a fix, tested them out, and the new CTS parts supposedly will not get hung up.

people unable to control their floormats, much less a complex vehicle, were a SEPARATE and ADDITIONAL problem.

Regardless of the Fanboy spin. Toyota is looking real crappy as of late.

There will b a lot of arguments at the dealer when someone tries to buy one of these cars. They won't understand, they'll wanna buy it any way and put an order in...sales won't hurt from this lol.

bahahhahahaha Toyotas are economy cars yet you treat them like Ferraris.

sticky, there prob'ly won't be arguments. people will RESPECT toyota all the more for doing this.

i predict this will cause only a TEMPORARY dip in toyota sales. if the plants resume production and shipping within, say 14 days, the interruption will not be significant.

if anything, the sales stop will create a greatly ENLARGED POOL of PENT-UP DEMAND. these are after all, the MOST POLULAR toyota vehicles. and toyota and loyal customers are used to wait lists. remember when the wait for new Priuses was 2 months and more?

some buyers may also just shift to OTHER toyota models.

in any case, it's not like thousands of people NEED a new toyota TODAY. or even this week. especially if they were gonna trade an older toyota, which is good for some 20 YEARS of reliable service.

as with the Tylenol case in the past, most intelligent people will see this was NOT TOYOTA's fault, but a third party (supplier; in tynlenol case, the tamperer). and actually feel MORE sympathetic and loyal than ever!