Loved Ones - Toyota
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escavader
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Ijust saw the PRIUS guy on the news.Ido believe him to be telling the truth.He also said he absolutely loves TOYOTA ,but will never drive a again A PRIUS .Mabey i should get a hold of him and ask if hed like a TUNDRA
,All this TOYOTA crap is making me very edgy:confused2:
ALAN
,All this TOYOTA crap is making me very edgy:confused2:ALAN
Dmace
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FORD, but what does that have to do with these Toyota Lemons? :laughing:
Also, Chrysler is 55% owned by the UAW (it's employees) and 35% owned by Fiat.
dave1949
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Maybe he wanted to go 90.... He just thot fast and called 911 when he saw flashing lights.
Well, then he and you think a lot faster than I do
Dave
dave1949
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Ijust saw the PRIUS guy on the news.Ido believe him to be telling the truth.He also said he absolutely loves TOYOTA ,but will never drive a again A PRIUS .Mabey i should get a hold of him and ask if hed like a TUNDRA
ALAN
I saw that too Alan. He did seem sincere and the 911 recording sounded like true panic. I wonder if his hair was all white before his drive? Shouldn't joke about it I suppose.
Dave.
BobRip
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He did not put it in neutral. That really surprised me. He did not know what would happen in neutral.
escavader
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Mabey a good TOYOTA fix would be one of them parachutes like on a dragster:thumbsup::laughing:
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Mace Canute
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I was reading a news report of the California incident today... a couple of quotes from that article:
"The (California Highway Patrol) officer (Todd Neibert) said he told Sikes to push the brake pedal to the floor and apply the emergency brakes as the Prius neared 85 mph (137 kph). The car slowed to about 55 mph (88 kph), at which time Sikes says he turned off the ignition and the car came to a stop."
"Neibert told Sikes after the highway patrol caught up with him to shift to neutral but the driver shook his head no. Sikes told reporters he didn't go into neutral because he worried the car would flip
The bold print portion pretty well says it all. At any time the driver could have stopped the car but he had to do it by an out of the usual way of doing it. After all the hullabaloo about uncontrolled throttles in Toyotas, you would think that he (and everyone else who drives one) would have taken the time to consider what he would do if it happened to him...BEFORE he started to drive the car! The truly scarey thing is...people just like him are driving on the same roads I do!!
"The (California Highway Patrol) officer (Todd Neibert) said he told Sikes to push the brake pedal to the floor and apply the emergency brakes as the Prius neared 85 mph (137 kph). The car slowed to about 55 mph (88 kph), at which time Sikes says he turned off the ignition and the car came to a stop."
"Neibert told Sikes after the highway patrol caught up with him to shift to neutral but the driver shook his head no. Sikes told reporters he didn't go into neutral because he worried the car would flip
The bold print portion pretty well says it all. At any time the driver could have stopped the car but he had to do it by an out of the usual way of doing it. After all the hullabaloo about uncontrolled throttles in Toyotas, you would think that he (and everyone else who drives one) would have taken the time to consider what he would do if it happened to him...BEFORE he started to drive the car! The truly scarey thing is...people just like him are driving on the same roads I do!!
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So an owner with this problem only has 21 days to get it fixed??? Good luck getting an appointment with all the rest rest of the recall activity going on right now.
With all these problems finally coming out I wonder if Consumers (we love any car not built by an American Company) Reports Magazine will revise their recommended car list.
So an owner with this problem only has 21 days to get it fixed??? Good luck getting an appointment with all the rest rest of the recall activity going on right now.
With all these problems finally coming out I wonder if Consumers (we love any car not built by an American Company) Reports Magazine will revise their recommended car list.
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I was reading a news report of the California incident today... a couple of quotes from that article:
"The (California Highway Patrol) officer (Todd Neibert) said he told Sikes to push the brake pedal to the floor and apply the emergency brakes as the Prius neared 85 mph (137 kph). The car slowed to about 55 mph (88 kph), at which time Sikes says he turned off the ignition and the car came to a stop."
"Neibert told Sikes after the highway patrol caught up with him to shift to neutral but the driver shook his head no. Sikes told reporters he didn't go into neutral because he worried the car would flip
The bold print portion pretty well says it all. At any time the driver could have stopped the car but he had to do it by an out of the usual way of doing it. After all the hullabaloo about uncontrolled throttles in Toyotas, you would think that he (and everyone else who drives one) would have taken the time to consider what he would do if it happened to him...BEFORE he started to drive the car! The truly scarey thing is...people just like him are driving on the same roads I do!!
I can see it now; all the driver training programs will need to be changed to include emergency stuck throttle training! Wouldn't it be easier and less costly just to build cars that won't suffer this problem?
