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Why I'd Avoid Toyota, The #1 Automaker in the U.S.

Hmm... If you got driven like a work truck, I bet you'd be standing in puddles of your own filth as well occasionally.

Toyota has been trying to enter the full size truck market for YEARS but until the 1st generation Tundra hit the market, they were clueless about what they were trying to build. People here (rural, many farmers) still buy domestic 1/2 ton trucks because they are dead-nuts reliable on a daily basis and they are much less sensitive to the realities of being able to adhere to strict maintenance requirements than Toyotas are. All are good products, but if i need to slog down what used to be a dirt road to work on broken levee and I need to pick a truck that will get me there and back, it will not be a Toyota--yet. They just haven't proven to be able to cut it in this environment.




On Jun 23 10:47 AM Tom o'Bedlam wrote:

> We have 2 Toyotas for personal use and 2 Chevy trucks for work. There's
> never a drip of anything under a Toyota, but there are at least 3
> different colored puddles under each Chevy.
>
> The minute Toyota makes a 1-ton pickup, I'm buying.

Why I'd Avoid Toyota, The #1 Automaker in the U.S.

Holy cow those cars will NOT die. I had a friend while I was in college (12 years ago) with an '88 Z24. She drove that car past 300,000 miles before her dad bought her a used Lincoln LS. I only know about the LS and mileage because somebody e-mailed pictures of her crying (joy or sadness???) as they took the Cav away. Don't worry, Meredith, I remember the digital dash and I'm still jealous about that!


On Jun 22 05:13 PM 303820 wrote:

> Paint runs, unfinished plastic mould seams, poorly aligned trim,
> huge panel gaps....pistoneki you're describing Asian autos...
> As for the perfect car? my son drives a 1987 Chevy cavalier Z24 with
> 192,000 miles that I bought in October of 1986!

Grocery Stocks: Fallout Coming in Highly Competitive Industry

"Grocery store stocks do not receive a lot of coverage in the market, and have underperformed in the recent rally for the most part. This trend is likely to continue as rising commodity costs crimp margins and hurt earnings across the board, while a few should be able to gain market share and set apart from the rest."

You are correct; grocery store stocks do not receive a lot of coverage in the market. I don't know where you've been, but this is nothing new. That you still throw Wal-Mart and Target into a conversation about traditional grocers makes me wonder if you even did any research. First the SuperCenter was absolutely going to sound the death knoll. "...Grocers on life support... just a matter of time. Short is a sure bet..." Wal-Mart's Neighborhood Market grocery stores were next. They were so sure of themselves, the blueprints for each store came attached to a crate of vultures to be released over the competition. Need I go on??

An important point you failed to make is that Kroger (and to a much lesser extent, Safeway) manufactures many of its private label products in company-owned facilities. This economic environment moves consumers toward those products, which have a lower transactional price, but contribute much more profit. People who don't understand this dynamic get lost in the "grocery-store-comps-s... short's-a-good-bet Wal-Mart's-got 'em-nailed-to-the-floor" mindset and keep writing the same crap over and over again.

Is it really that difficult to do a little research?

GM Restructures Debt to Avoid Bankruptcy

The author of this drivel obviously sees no hypocrisy in his statement in paragraph seven: "It is disheartening that, even on the brink of bankruptcy, the government is willing to give $11.4 billion more of the tax payers' money to help prop up a sinking ship."

What?!? Disheartening is that GM is getting the monetary equivalent of a grain of sand while the author writes this article somewhere from the banking beach on Wall Street. Unbelievable.