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Originally Posted by msammy
Yeah, but tomorrow he will. He'll have to bow-down to congress and take his lumps for a problem they really can't identify and come up with a proper fix. Unfortunately, he's dealing with a government that owns a big chunk of GM, the US Government takeover of the auto industry. Can Toyota really compete with the US Government's version of the automobile industry's "public option"? This is just big government picking on Toyota to better GM's (and other US automaker's) bottom-line. 
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(cough, bs, cough, bs)
Are you serious, you think they are doing this to better US auto makers bottom lines? Ha-ha. Not at tall. Toyoda could have said he wasn't coming, in fact he did, ask yourself why he changed his mind.
I mean, reverse that logic. If Chevrolet had killed 30+ people, hid behind a TSB to save 100M then had to recall nearly everything in its lineup and Congress DIDN'T call the CEO in you'd say "see, there goes the Government protecting its investment"...wouldn't you?
Did you catch the part where Toyota was boasting about saving 100M by not doing a full recall?
http://www.gazette.com/articles/wash...m-boasted.html
This is nothing more than Congressman trying to pump themselves up for the camera because they can't accomplish anything in their office. Think "steroids", "bank CEOs", "Oil CEOs" and the list goes on. Nothing ever gets accomplished and even if Toyoda gets crushed in his 'hearings' Toyota will be fine as long as it can fix its issues.