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It's obvious that working for your company would suck. Employment at will or not, which, no $h! sherlock, means every day is a new employment contract and you prove yourself every day. but not commiting to an employee (i.e. stringing them along, temp style) basically says, 'you are nothing but a piece of meat, I in no way value you in any sort of way whatsoever'. You know the phrase, 'you get what you pay for'? Well, if your employment arrangements are not reasonable and don't signify some sort of reciprocal commitment to the worker, you're the one that's gonna get fked in the end. high turnover, low productivity, defective products and labor, immigration issues, whatever. Someway, somehow, you'll be left to fail in the end. Then what is the price? Numbers are not the only criteria and sorry to say it, but profits are not 100% the criteria for running a successful business. Integrity, reciprocal giving and getting and relationships is the only recipe for a long lasting successful business. It wouldn't surprise me one bit to learn that your company probably has no sort of charitable giving policy that is worth a hill of beans. And not just some cheesy made up policy that only exists to show off in PR brochures. how bout something that exists as a genuine effort to give back the communities you rape low priced temp labor from? Wait till management and marketing jobs are all in India or China or Japan, too. Keep sending $$$ overseas and eventually not too far down the road, all the management and decision makers of our fates are over there as well. When the shoe is on the other foot and somebody from Japan or India is the one hiring you as a temp, won't that be a hoot.

I'm so glad to see we have folks in this country who seem to endorse moving our nation to a bunch of part time temp workers with no health insurance or benefits and endorsing high turnover and treating human resources as a replaceable 'tool'. That sort of attitude usually only comes from the elitists who feel irreplaceable themselves. Eventually we all reap what we sow. Wait till management and marketing jobs are all in India too. And that is not a pro-union comment or anything against efficiency. It has more to do with getting people to believe that if you invest in people and build their futures, the future of your country and community is built as well.......and that's not done stringing folks along, giving them some hope of being full hires, or decent wages, and instead using them to just pull the rug out from under them. Attemtping to tear people down in interest of profits only is a guarantee to destroy our fabric. The acronym for 'toyota production system', TPS, deosn't also have to mean 'treating people $h!ty'.

i saw it on GMI. LOVE IT. love the logo. love the grille. SEX.

well, since toyota hires temps and gets rid of them at 2.99 years so as not to have to give them bene's, it's only natural they have to keep hiring a lot of new temps every 2.99 years (which they will not have to pay bene's to). There's your opportunities.

doesn't matter, as long as they get to buy that Lexus they want.

the real hardcore toyodaphiles are very snooty about even American made Toyotas, the perception is still strong that American made japanese cars do not match the quality of real Japanese ones. That is why all the Lexus are made in Japan. The people that buy them are still snooty enough to demand their cars be made in JAPAN. Some XENOPHOBIA coming from that end. We always get ripped here about Xenophobia of the Japanese companies but its equal xenophobia from the customers that specify they want the real japanese stuff. Not the sloppy Camlees made in Kentucky. The trucks Toyota makes here probably for cafe reasons or something.

I wonder if Toyota owns Consumer Reports. And how many Kevin Bacon degrees you have to go to to put it together.

wait, sorry, I meant charger. I like the looks of the magnum mostly. it's done alright for a wagon. my big magnum beefs are interiors related. its the charger that is offensive to my eyes. We all know the Magnum was just a knock off of this, anyways, it's just too bad that if they were gonna copy it that it didn't have the airy greenhouse of the Audi.

it is true the economy is in the crapper and GM is doing alright in spite of it. The housing industry problems are real and are coming to roost after 5-6 years of being propped up by the banking industry and such that cannot afford to do it anymore. Consumers won't buy anything because their real wages are tanking, (well, most people, the upper classes continue to prosper) and people know there will be no force of change until Jan 09 at the earliest. There is no hope for improvement before then, unfortunately. People are concentrating on getting by without new house or car purchases until there is a change in direction/ leadership in this country and everyone's wages are are going to stop being pilfered by the crooks in oil, government, and health care. I used to think Detroit and big oil were in bed together but really in the last 5 years or so big oil stepped out on its own and said, "we are better off without you" and thus all the huge gas price increases. Detroit got stiffed and hasn't figured out how to evolve and make it on anything besides bigger cars yet. Big oil will get their cash however they want to. If we keep driving big cars, they will make big bucks. If we all drive small cars, they will raise the price even more (which is what the ecoweenies don't understand). If we all drove Prius our gas prices would double (and so would our insurance rates). Nothing will change until we develop a real alternative to the monopoly that is called gasoline. No one in government will aloow us to do that. Otherwise, we'd have all sorts of big funds available to advance science and techonology to ween us off it. GM is somehow treading water in spite of the big waste our country has turned into, for most Americans' pocketbooks. Pretty encouraging, actually.

repeat Toyota came in below 50 percent because nearly half of the vehicles it sells in our country are imported (this is roughly the same percentage of imports Toyota had in the 80s before it began “investing in America”). toyota as a whole...under 50% I agree US automakers need to branch away from michigan and go more global but that is a separate issue from toyota trying to project a [pedigree of being American and they simply are not being American. No one would call them on it if they didn't try so hard to cover up the fact that they are not American.

Reliability -recalls too safety- no better than anyone else. well ok, the tundra is not very safe compared to the ford and chevy resale- only until the next wave of camry's hit auction considering how many fleet cars toyota has these days design- yeah, um, no fit and finish- they can assemble a car sure materials- thinner sheet metal? you can't judge all materials based upon the gloss level of the plastic refinement- their 4's might still be better but T and H's v6's are no better than anyone else's these days fuel economy...when you sell more 4 cylinders of course your mpg will be perceived as better. because tehir v6's are too pricey is maybe why

closed circuit to siegen...... there are far to many hondas with 20-30% drops. that's why it doesn't matter whether it's reported 'per sales day' or by any other method, Honda is taking it in the shorts. The RDX is not worth it for a four cylinder SUV to be 38 grand. Maybe they should have got a clue and put a v6 in it. The MDX is a well turned out piece that unfortunately is too expensive and tries to aspire in price range that really only Euros deserve, considering it does not have the panache of a Euro. Plus it has no cargo space and lacks mpg. Otherwise, it's quite nice. Too bad they abandoned the RSX type cars which helped define their brand. Where Acura is failing is in simple things. their cars lack power and styling and ultimate performance compared to what everyone really wants (Euro cars). Where Honda is failing is over-relying on products/experiments like the Ridgeline and Element which have seen declines. The Civic's appeal is too narrow. The new Accord will make a good splash when it comes out, but right now its getting drowned by the Camry. Personally, I hope the new Accord kills the Camry and takes back some sales from Altima as well. I bet the secret braintrust back in Hirosaki or wherever are colluding in Japan right now to try to negotiate which brands should gain back sales now that Toyota is cannibalizing all the other Japanese brands. The folks over there must know that the folks here are starting to awake to Toyota's big bucket of fluff and the backlash will soon ensue, and that Toyota excelling too greatly will actually endanger the other Jap anese brands at some point.

it would be as simple as taking a photo every day as a drive by the hertz near my house.......lately it's mostly hyundais and toyotas. always a camlee or three on that lot. the sonata is music, music for the manager of the hertz store. he knows he will never run out of cars to rent.

note: the outlook, you can have tan leather. funny how in the GMC you can't. See, that's not a rebadge I dislike plood.

my biggest magnum beefs are the front end styling, the greenhouse styling, the rear quarter styling, and the back end styling. The G8 is far cooler, inside and out, and doesn't try to be a 4 door version of an old muscle car. Too bad the G8 is not here yet.

Toyota, masters of perception/deception

lot's of previous gen vue buyers got the manual, i would be surprised to see saturn be that stupid to get rid of it.

after seeing the new Vue at the auto show, i must say, they likely can compete with these higher prices, assuming they get the word out about how well appointed this thing is.

finally, a politician willing to draw attention to the 'toyota issue'?

free press http://www.knollenberg.house.gov/blog/?p=55

i visited the dealer i got my aztek from this wkd and talked to my salesguy. the dealer sells chevy/BPG/Caddy/Saturn and he said the acadias are basically gone the day they get them and the outlooks tend to sit on the lot awhile in comparison. if i were buying, i would get the GMC, because i prefer the interior and the grille. but either seems to be a good choice. I think the GMC might hold resale a bit better.

Cruising a chrysler lot this weekend, i noticed that the Charger is now available in AWD. They had a Charger v6 SXT AWD for 28k list price. I would choose a Magnum over a Charger though.

right. I forgot. when Moses went up to the mountain, instead of coming down with the ten commandments etched in stone, he came down with a year's worth of Back issues of Consumer Reports and the annual car issue. should be interesting to see what will happen to camlee values considering Toyota is a fleet whore now. At least Honda avoids that. As far as features, Camlee and Accord do not really offer up anyting else the others don't.

half those DCX cars are fleet. In the case of Avenger and Sebring, probably lots more. 500 to taurus with new motor will gain 50% sales. I think the 07 Altima is looking like a dud. I don't think it's doing what Nissan hoped although its still a big seller. Looks too much like the old one. I do not get why the Accord and Camry sell in such huge numbers. They are quality built, but they do not offer anything more than what so many other excellent products in the segment already provide. I'd like to see that number get cut in half. We know Toyota is becoming a bigger fleet wh0re all the time. Fusion is encouraging. That still needs the 3.5. Not sure what will save the Aura. No one knows about that car!!!!!!! I bet most folks still think Saturn only sells small pastic bodied S cars! Maybe we won't see an image boost on Aura until Vue and Astra hit.

gray mazda 6, horrible gray plastic interior, mouse fur seats. Mazda6 is better in other color combos. This one was definte yuck. I couldn't stand to be in it.