Now anyone that knows me, know I love a good conspiracy. This one has been floating around and I never put too much thought behind it, until now. With Toyota’s latest recall of ALL Prius models for “sudden acceleration” problems, it seems almost like they are being targeted with a slew of bad issues. Again, after the first couple of recalls, I thought that Toyota had just made some mistakes. But now things are starting to stink of government set up. As always our government likes to go over the top when committing to its tactics, and this time is no different. Why make it look like an accident when you know there’s nothing anyone can do about it, right? Yet they play the game anyway.
So here is what I believe is happening. You’ll remember the “Cash for Clunkers” program that our government started last year, in which you could trade in any old (under strict guidelines) vehicle for up to $4000 on a purchase of a new car. You could use that money to purchase any make of car, as long as it met certain mpg. restrictions. Well, Japan has also started that program, but with one small detail left out. American made/owned car manufacturers were left out of the deal. Yep, you couldn’t buy any of our stuff. I’m not totally clear what the restrictions were or how American cars fell out of the loop, but they did. Maybe the restriction was, “you can’t suck”. I dunno? Never the less, do you think that might have left a bad taste in the mouth of the American Auto industry? Do you think the “salt in the wound” may have been that Toyota sold more cars during the “Cash for Clunkers” program than any of the Big Three American auto corps? And now that our government is part owner of 2 of the Big Three, do you think that might have something to do with it? And how much cash has Honda paid under the table to keep its name out of the papers? These are all interesting questions, and provide quite a motive for retribution. It’s something to think about. Plus the more Toyota continues to handle the situation well, the more “recalls” you can expect.
Or, you could be an Occam’s razor fan. So for you, we say Toyota simply messed up, bad.
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