Originally Posted by
SarcasticOne
i think it's a bit like toyota with cruise control, ferarri 458's and burning up, XR5's and CV joints.... yeah it happens, but it becomes the real "headline" issue for a make/model
True, however I would still place the Toyota brakes/cruise issues in a different bracket altogether.
What we are talking about is one engine in a small bracket of cars being _rumoured_ to have a high attrition rate when nobody has any statistics and sure as hell don't really know except to say that that the very few people who do have something go pop are not happy about it going pop, sure as hell aren't predisposed to accept their abuse of the vehicle as a precondition to something going pop, and as such need someone to vent at, which is inevitably the engine manufacturer.
Toyota's woes on the other hand; NASA called in by the US to analyse the ECU code regarding the cruise failures, as investigative bodies basically didn't believe that a pedal shim was ever a cause or a fix. I'm not sure if there's been anything further come of that yet. Brakes on the Prius is just shoddy workmanship. As is selling dodgy parts to other manufacturers. "My prius is a hybrid, therefore we are allowed to expect less of it, people need to learn to drive around it" is not an appropriate mentality to approach development in terms of safety, and just the fact that the brakes became a problem in any way shows that there's a huge development issue. It's not a first generation and it's supposed to be a flagship design. It suggests a development bias towards maximum profit at the expense of safety and quality.
P.S. I doubt anybody ever died because an MZR threw a rod.
Last edited by Nexus; 21-01-2011 at 04:58 PM.
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