I’m not at all convinced this is going to fix the problem for Toyota. Obviously I’m not an engineer or anything but the fix just doesn’t match the description of the problem. If people were saying “my car won’t slow down when I take my foot off the gas” I’d believe them but a sticky pedal isn’t going to cause a car to suddenly accelerate.
Category: Automotive
Lets talk about this auto bailout
I want to take a small detour from the usual content and talk about the auto bailout that has been in the news. I have really mixed feelings about this bailout. On one hand I understand that there are indeed some jobs at stake but on the other hand, I really hate that nobody is talking about how these companies should have seen it coming.
Lets take GM as an example. A couple years ago they released all new SUV’s and trucks as well as the Acadia crossover (one of the heaviest ever produced) at a time when gas prices were clearly on the rise. Of course, in a classic case of brand engineering all of the GM divisions released their own versions of each. Since then we’ve seen little to nothing in the way of affordable, efficient cars that can compete with what other companies are producing. GM for too long has concentrated on the once lucrative SUV business and their smaller cars are suffering. Meanwhile companies like Toyota, Honda and even Kia (owned by Hyundai) are surviving just fine in the the current economic situation.
Official shots of the redesigned Mazda6 hit the web early!
Official shots of the newly redesigned Mazda6 hit the internet ahead of its official unveiling. It’s a radically different, far more stylish approach to Mazda’s major midsize player.