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Originally posted by DanS
This isn't the high road. American consumers are getting shafted!
This isn't the high road. American consumers are getting shafted!
I agree with UR, it's a brilliant move.
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America is shafting itself by being so frigging sensitive about the issue.
I agree with UR, it's a brilliant move.DISCLAIMER: the author of the above written texts does not warrant or assume any legal liability or responsibility for any offence and insult; disrespect, arrogance and related forms of demeaning behaviour; discrimination based on race, gender, age, income class, body mass, living area, political voting-record, football fan-ship and musical preference; insensitivity towards material, emotional or spiritual distress; and attempted emotional or financial black-mailing, skirt-chasing or death-threats perceived by the reader of the said written texts. -
This is how I interpret that.Originally posted by Colon
Ford and GM still sell about half the cars in the US, and they employ hundreds of thousands of Americans, directly and indirectly. If they'd go under there would be a *serious* amount of noise and a lot of blame-shifting in Toyota's direction.
By raising prices, they're throwing the ball to Detroit to prove themselves. They're essentially stating "We are not predators on a mission to crash America's industrial symbols: we just try to make good cars.", which probably is better PR than any kind of aggressive tactic would be.
"The worst thing that could happen to us is that GM and Ford go bankrupt, that their operations are rationalized, and that all the bad deals that have been shoved down their throats over the years will be killed."I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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Maybe you shouldn't be "interpreting" my post.Originally posted by DanS
This is how I interpret that.
"The worst thing that could happen to us is that GM and Ford go bankrupt, that their operations and would be rationalized, and that all the bad deals that have been shoved down their throats will be killed."
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I didn't think he was interpreting your post, but rather interpreting Toyota's true intent.Comment
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I'm just paraphrasing what Toyota "really" means.
I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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GM has dropped its prices, at least temporarily, with it's nationwide, GM employee discount sale, giving consumers an employee discount.Originally posted by JohnT
Detroit has two responses:
1. Use the reprieve to fix (if possible) operations.
2. Raise their prices accordingly.Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...Comment
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In that case: See, it's a brilliant move!Originally posted by DanS
I'm just paraphrasing what Toyota "really" means.
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I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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The people in the collosseum want to see death. The emporer looks around, sticks out his thumb and...
I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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Don't feel bad, now Americans can buy Toyotas without feeling guilty about it.Originally posted by DanS
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I won't feel guilty about it. Toyota makes the best cars.Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...Comment
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Feeling guilty about buying Japanese is so... 1992. We have evolved, my dear Belgian.Originally posted by Colon
Don't feel bad, now Americans can buy Toyotas without feeling guilty about it.
I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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Brilliant move by Toyota, american costumers get shafted. Both things are true. yay capitalism.
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I never fully understood why GM and Ford in particular continued to insist on churning out crap. Yes, they have very high costs of labor from likely bad union deals. But that's a reality. Is the better way to deal with that reality to start making the best quality cars in the world, or spew out endless reams of garbage?"The French caused the war [Persian Gulf war, 1991]" - Ned
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the japanese are right, and are brilliant. why spit on an old man? wait till he dies slowly, you'll get the inheritance soon enough anyways (besdies, the japanese always take a long term view on everything business)"Everything for the State, nothing against the State, nothing outside the State" - Benito MussoliniComment
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