Don’t Buy a Toyota or You Might Drive Halfway Across the U.S. Without Stopping
Or, you could put the car in neutral if you sensed a problem.
I was car shopping in Oct-Dec of last year. All of my vehicle research/inventory browsing was done on the internet, which caused me to surrender my email address to many car dealership’s lead capture forms so I could receive more specifics on availabilty, cost and warranties for the vehicles I was interested in.
After about a month and half of research, I purchased my vehicle.
Since then, I have received an influx of emails from American car dealerships I previously inquired to (names will not be disclosed) explaining why I should buy an American vehicle while using Toyota’s recent accelerator recall folly as selling point. They told me how there was over 200 consumer complaints in the U.S. and Japan about the accelerators on their Toyota’s.
They tried to digitally persuade me with email.
Those kind of numbers are statistically irrelavant. If they told me there were 20,000, I would have listened a little harder.
Bottom line, car manufacturers always produce cars with some type of defect. However, Toyota’s defect correlates with your acceleration which makes it a bit “scarier”. Look at the historical data for recalls and reliability of this company. They are in good standing.
Put the car in neutral, look at the recalls for all the cars you are considering purchasing and be a smart consumer.
