Not all Toyota models are involved and not all years (only back as far as 2004)
We drive a Toyota Sienna and would buy one again.
Below are the vehicles involved in the recent recalls.
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Would You Buy A Toyota?
by minimus 37 Replies latest jw friends
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blondie
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ItAintTrue
No-I was raised in a GM town and support GM products. Plus, I love my Buick!!!
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leavingwt
Robert Wright says they're "safe enough".
My back-of-the-envelope calculations (explained in a footnote below) suggest that if you drive one of the Toyotas recalled for acceleration problems and don’t bother to comply with the recall, your chances of being involved in a fatal accident over the next two years because of the unfixed problem are a bit worse than one in a million — 2.8 in a million, to be more exact. Meanwhile, your chances of being killed in a car accident during the next two years just by virtue of being an American are one in 5,244. So driving one of these suspect Toyotas raises your chances of dying in a car crash over the next two years from .01907 percent (that’s 19 one-thousandths of 1 percent, when rounded off) to .01935 percent (also 19 one-thousandths of one percent).
I can live with those odds. Sure, I’d rather they were better, but it’s not worth losing sleep over. And I don’t think it’s worth all the bandwidth the Toyota story has consumed over the past couple of months.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/09/toyotas-are-safe-enough/
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PEC
LWT, good point.
Philip
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Girlie
Yes. It was only their Prius model that were recalled for the accelerator issue, right? I prefer a Camery. They have always gotten a good review.
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MMXIV
There are likely to be as many undiscovered/unproven/known but not worth a recall faults with other cars.
leavingwt has it spot on. Improve your odds by driving a bigger car with the latest safety features and drive it carefully.
A JW is three times more likely to die as a result of refusing blood during childbirth (totally avoidable) than in a road accident. (Ok mixing American stats with Netherlands stats of 68 in 100,000 JW childbirths 1983-2006).
MMXIV
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minimus
The irony is that Toyota sales INCREASED in spite of the bad publicity in recent weeks!
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spawn
Best cars on the market. I own two, one a nice large 4x4 to mess about in and another for work.
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undercover
Best cars on the market.
They just go and go and go and go...
...whether you want them to or not...
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minimus
Speeders are quite happy to contest tickets.