Posted by
Bill Crawford on Friday, February 26, 2010 11:41:29 AM
There is an undercurrent building about how indicative it is of this Administration's anti-business sentiments that they are hauling Toyota into Congress over a product recall, albeit a large one.
Here is one for all of you: I agree with what they are doing to Toyota right now. And it's not because I think they should get targeted treatment because while they build cras here, the profits go overseas. It is because the deeper I dig into this, the more it smells that the metal shim that was passed out as the fix for all the acceleration problems may well be a cover. They may have a software problem they have yet to isolate. If that is the case, and they are allowing drivers to walk away from a recall "fix" when the problem hasn't been, there will be hell to pay.
I didn't see that one coming because, while I wouldn't buy a Toyota over a Ford right now, I still have a hell of a lot of respect for the company. If this sham has any truth to it, it is one of two possibilities:
One, it is a new problem for them, either technically or having happened in American plants, and they are facing new corporate paradigms.
Two, it is how they deal with things when they happen in Japan, and aren't prepared for an American reaction.
We shall see.