Toyotas Engineering

jirqoadai wrote:
toyada sucks whole lemons through a straw. Mopar rules the day

Casey Jones wrote:quote="jirqoadai"]
toyada sucks whole lemons through a straw. Mopar rules the day/quote]

Yeah, sure.

Toyotas typically last over 250,000 miles.  Before I bought the pickup I now own, I used a Toyota Camry as my daily-driver car...it had 200,000 miles and 26 years on it.  That's right, a 1994.

Where are the 1994 Chrysler-Plymouth-Dodge-Eagle cars, today?  Show me, even a 1994 Dodge truck, or Jeep, that hasn't either rusted out, and limps along in a cloud of oil smoke, or that hasn't been rebuilt completely.

Chrysler and Toyota were on roughly equal footing in 1990 or so.  Chrysler became the victim of cost-cutting, three mergers and takeovers, and now shoddy engineering by Fiat and now Peugeot.  Europeans do NOT use their private cars to the extent Americans do, because Europe is physically much smaller and denser in population.

That's why Renault cars have never held up; why, in the current era, even VW has abandoned its past legacy for quality building.

The Japanese have the same small, dense geography of their homeland, but the Japanese learned that if they offer a better product, they make better profits and their businesses become larger and more powerful.

Sprintcyclist wrote:What are you talking about?
What is a 413 max-wedge or a mopar?

You do not answer any of my questions.
Would you like me to tell you why Japanese cars are so much better than almost any other car?
Korean cars being the only possible exception but they do not have the proven longevity as Toyotas/Hondas/mazdas.

See, that is a proper sentence.

............. The Max Wedge, formally the Maximum Performance Wedge, was an engine option produced by the Chrysler Corporation from 1962 to 1964, ..............

............ By any measure, whether esoteric or mundane, Toyota Motor Corporation has become one of the most successful companies in the world today. This year marks the 70th anniversary of Toyota’s founding, 50 years since the Japanese company started exporting cars to the United States, and a decade since it launched the world’s first commercial hybrid, the Prius. If, as Toyota officially forecast last December, it sells 9.34 million vehicles in 2007, it will overtake America’s General Motors to become the world’s biggest automobile manufacturer.

Toyota is, arguably, already the best carmaker on the planet. For almost 15 years J.D. Power and other research firms have consistently rated Toyota and its luxury line, Lexus, among the top automotive brands in terms of reliability, initial quality, and long-term durability. Toyota is also the most profitable car manufacturer: In the financial year that ended in March 2007, it made a profit of $13.7 billion, whereas GM and Ford reported losses of $1.97 billion and $12.61 billion, respectively, in 2006. ...................