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Wonder how much it costs to sell your soul to trump. Wonder what this bozo wants from trump
Sounds like the NEXT AMERICAN BOYCOTT!!!
Ask Elon how that went!
DUMBASS! Can’t fix stupid!
Honda it is then
Honda is bending to Maga too.
Honda, GM and Chrysler have all cancelled plans of opening / expanding Factories in Canada, some that were already subsidied by the local governments, in favor of caving to US demands of returning manufacturing there instead.
Well that may just be business prudence. In a world where Trump might wake up, see a picture of Trudeau kissing Katie Perry, and decide to make your cars 300% more expensive because fuck everyone, it's probably wiser to just not take that risk...
They can also control the US by just denying them vehicles. Hondas are incredibly popular vehicles, and removing them and their parts from the market would piss a LOT of people off.
Capitalism is where the money is the important part and has the power yet whenever these corporations find themselves in a position where the system could actually function in some vaguely beneficial way for society they still fall all over themselves to suck off whatever shitstain is causing problems.
It all comes back to shareholder primacy. Dodge v Ford decided that corporations must act first and foremost in the interest of shareholders. And the more modern Friedman doctrine decrees that they should cater to those interests not only primarily, but exclusively, even at the expense of all others.
Honda could try a bargaining tactic like that. And their shareholders could sue the shit out of them. And the shareholders would win. Because our model of corporate governance is fucked.
Reminder: Toyota is also the third biggest anti climate lobbyist in the world
Also largest supplier of mobile weapons platform aka Hilux pickup truck.
a great unit(similar) CNC generals.
Easy: So I can scratch Toyota from the list of potentially interesting car companies for my next car.
You can simply scratch every single new car from that list while you're at it. Every single one is a massive privacy violation with zero right to repair and corporations that soft-support the Nazi's in myriad ways. Buy used and repair yourself, or walk.
I'm learning a hard lesson that you can't fix much after ~2016 either. You can replace the parts, but good luck resetting the computers without proprietary dealership software.
I love my 14 year old vw with no smart system (what little smart infotainment system it has hasn’t worked since I bought it and I’m replacing it with a regular stereo eventually) that I bought with a little cash. It has no frills like blind spot detection, lane stuff, nor backup camera, and I love it. But it has the right frills like heated seats and a sunroof.
I’m not sure I want a newer vehicle.
The CEO of Toyota is named Toyoda?
Although the founding family's name was written in the Kanji "豊田" (rendered as "Toyoda"), the company name was changed to a similar word in katakana - トヨタ (rendered as "Toyota") because the latter has 8 strokes which is regarded as a lucky number in East Asian culture.
boomer asians/gen x asians lean conservative heavily often, moreso to do with thier socially conservative culture in thier own countries. evenmore if they are religious in anyway.
The fact that I'll probably never be able to afford a new car again gets easier to accept every year it seems. Yay? I guess?
I was that close to a GR Corolla too. Thanks for making this easier.
Fuck cars.
Hot take.
Especially at the temps an exhaust runs at. No one should fuck that.
Is this the same Toyota that sells like one EV model? Not exactly stunning leadership.
Toyota lobbies hard against CAFE standards. They don’t wanna sell Priuses, they wanna sell TRUCKS!!!!
Of course. They're massively profitable.
You can ignore half the emissions standards requirements
People want them because they're scared of driving a smaller vehicle while the other massive trucks on the road can crush them.
They always talk about the ability to move things like furniture or equipment or things like thag despite only doing that twice a year, and rentals existing, including directly from places like Lowe's and Home Depot.
People are willing to pay a premium because they mistakenly think that bigger vehicles cost substantially more to make because bigger must mean a lot more material, despite most of a vehicle being empty space.
Cracking up that the photo is in front of a Ford
Damn. Just finished up the payments on mine.
You purchased and paid it off before you knew, drive with a clear conscience until the wheels fall off and hope by then a better more ethical world exists.