GM Ready for Toyota Trucks

[toyoguy]

Finally, you're at a GM fansite and you're fighting an uphill battle.  Give it up.   

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I'm not fighting any battles, frankly this thread is pointless since Toyota can only build some ~250k units/yr. That's what 100k more Tundras than currently. The only company that really needs ready themselves for the Tundra is possibly Dodge.

[GMman]

I'm not fighting any battles, frankly this thread is pointless since Toyota can only build some ~250k units/yr.  That's what 100k more Tundras than currently.  The only company that really needs ready themselves for the Tundra is possibly Dodge.

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It's not pointless. Spokesmen from GM grant that toyota is going to sell quite a few of these trucks. Those sales will come from somewhere. Speculating where those sales will come from and what GM's response is to that is a worth while topic.

You ARE fighting a battle. You think toyota is superior to GM and you want others to believe that too. That is a battle. Especially when you enter a site that is made up of GM fans and show a picture of a bolt and an inner plastic inner fender that has a gap that is probably less than an 1/8" inch and you call it "HUGE"....and then state that it is an indication of questionable build quality. That kind of $h! that drives me crazy. You can like toyota all you want, but that picture has nothing to do with build quality. I grant you it's not the most attractive picture, but you're trying to plant the seed in people's minds that there are quality issues with GM's new trucks. I see right through that BS.

I'm fighting a battle too. I'm against people perpetuating the fallacy that American vehicles are inferior to imports. I don't give a crap where they build that ugly turd of a truck. It's a japanese company, assembling japanese parts, designed by japanese employees that is competiting with real AMERICAN trucks, ie: Chevrolet, GMC, Ford, and [sadly] to a lessor extent Dodge. And before anybody jumps on the "what's really American" argument, if none of that matters, why doesn't toyota move their headquarters to the United States? Why not turn it into an American company, instead of pretending to be? That would be the smartest thing they could do, IMO.

[supermoto]

I'm not fighting any battles, frankly this thread is pointless since Toyota can only build some ~250k units/yr.  That's what 100k more Tundras than currently.  The only company that really needs ready themselves for the Tundra is possibly Dodge.

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Toyota had to bring more products to Indiana because the plant could build more vehicles than they could sell Tundras. What do you think they'll bring to Texas to occupy the unused capacity there? I don't see Dodge needing to be that concerned with an ugly Tundra. This is Toyota's third swing at the segment and the first two were strikes. It may be a base hit, but it also may be the last strike, no way it's got the punch to be a home run.

[toyoguy]

Toyota had to bring more products to Indiana because the plant could build more vehicles than they could sell Tundras.

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What are you talking about?

Are you just making up arguments, they build the Tundra, Sequioa, and Sienna at Indiana as orginally planned.

Yeah Dodge has nothing to worry about, just piles of unsold vehicles, billion dollar loss last quarter, and Daimler thinking about tossing them.

Edited November 20, 2006 by toyoguy