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   XPost: alt.autos.toyota.camry, alt.autos.toyota, alt.autos.lexus   
   From: Trueno@e86.GTS   
      
   On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:19:44 -0800, studio wrote:   
      
   > To me it sounds awfully suspicious that Toyota is all-the-sudden doing   
   > as bad as the big 3.   
   >   
   > I would agree with someone who said; "Toyota needs to remember they're   
   > a car company and not a finance company".   
      
      
   It was bound to happen.   
   I said something about this years ago.   
   You make 1.2 million cars a year, with a 1% defect rate. That's 12,000   
   cars with defects. All of a sudden you have 12 million output per year,   
   you're now at 120,000 defects. Then you have a situation that comes up   
   where the same defective part is spread across model lines, be it a bad   
   accelerator or bad programming, and that's amplified even further.   
      
   I had a feeling something like this would happen when I got in a brand new   
   Camry in 2000, a loaner while my Corolla was being fixed, and the power   
   window jammed on the way down...   
      
   However, I believe you won't see this happen at Toyota again for quite a   
   while...if ever.   
      
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