GM's Latest Marketing Tactic

[bszopi]

http://money.cnn.com/2010/01/27/autos/gm_toyota_incentives/index.htm?hpt=T1

That is just awesome!

[robertisaar]

crash and burn, assholes!

(the company, not the people that got sucked into driving/riding in the Toyotas)

[RedZMonte]

Lmao! thats funny, GM is gettn down and dirty on toyota. I work for Lexus and luck for me that "Sticky Peddle" recall is not a issue on the Lexus

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[Superdave]

haha, way to go GM!

[19Cutlass94]

thats awesome! lol

[geldartb]

haha good stuff.

sorry about your bad luck toyota oh wait no im not

[Azrael]

Toyota got in a small final laugh though as this just spilled over onto the Matrix. Which means the Pontiac Vibe is now on halted production/sale. Considering Pontiac is well on it's way out already I doubt it'll change much.

[Raffaelli]

Drove by a dealership today on the freeway.... North Houston



"No recall here" on a 50 foot electronic sign.

[3400beretta]

Yeah, GM would just deny the problem until lawsuits forced them to do something about it. LIMG anyone?

There has only been a handfull of vehicles that have had this gas pedal problem, and they are doing the right thing by recalling them all to be safe.

[geldartb]

are these drive by wire now or cable driven gas pedals. never looked into it.

[robertisaar]

are these drive by wire now or cable driven gas pedals. never looked into it.

DBW.

[RedBird]

i think that's kind of a dick thing to do, but it's a cut-throat industry so do what you can when you can i guess.

this doesn't make me think anything less of toyota. compare all their recall's vs GMs, plus the ones GM DIDN'T recall, i.e. !!!!!LIM gasket from 93-05!!!!!!!

[Azrael]

The big difference between this recall and our LIMG woes is that a stuck gas pedal gets people killed. The gasket issue just kills motors. Add this to the last recall for the Corollas over failing brakes and Toyota's earning the image of being dangerous on the road.

[geldartb]

DBW FTL should have just stuck with cable driven throttles

[pocket-rocket]

I personally wouldn't count it against them. At least they are doing right by people and not blatantly turning people away for stuff that should be under warranty like Chrysler. I've read too many horror stories to even think about considering Chrysler to be a semi-decent company. One guy on TRS that lives in Michigan has something like an 2004 Caravan and the front strut towers have rusted out and Chrysler won't do a thing about it, and sadly his isn't the only one. There are tons of them so it's a known problem. At least Toyota is buying back trucks with frame rust problems that could be dangerous. If anything, once they got problems straitened out I would want to buy a Toyota. At least I know if there was a problem they would go to an extreme to make it right. And as for the sticking DBW deal, why can't people think about popping the transmission into neutral?