Then I followed it with: ” I’M NOT SAYING THAT IS RIGHT, I’m only saying that is what a lot of people THINK, at least the ones I know.”

Stop taking my statements out of context. My statements seem to be large and tough to swallow for you. If they are too much for you, I can dumb them down. However, what I said is correct.

The general reputation of Japanese cars is that they are not as safe as big, fat American or European cars. I know that Japanese cars are as safe if not safer than American and European cars, but I was reiterating what a lot of non-enthusiasts believe. My uncle, for example, had to have his arm twisted before he would buy his wife a Japanese minivan, because he had images of his family all dead and crushed by another car. My wife’s step-dad read me the riot act when I bought my Nissan Quest because he felt that it would crumble and fall apart when hitting a pot hole, and that airbags actually made it less safe because people drive worse when they know they have airbags. My oldest sister feels that Japanese cars are simply recycled aluminum cans. Many of my friends and coworkers feel the same way. One woman here at work won’t buy anything smaller than a Yukon. She feels unsafe in any car. I told her that a tractor trailer would crush her Yukon in an accident, and now she wants a tractor trailer.

Again, I don’t feel that way. I have a Japanese minivan because it was the biggest (cargo) and safest minivan available at the time, and I love it. I’ve had Japanese cars before, and I feel very safe in them. I understand crumple zones and absorption vs. rigidity. My father also feels the same way I do. My wife, too. So, I’m not the retard that says “Japanese = unsafe”. Other people are.

You, Cracker, are just like a media personality or a politician. You take one statement that I made to support a point, and you hammer it to death to try to make me look like an idiot. However, most of the people here are smarter than you are, and they understand that the idiot is you. Your plan has backfired again. Do not take my statements out of context. Read them in their entirety, and understand and learn. You may realize that I am not a fool.

Once again, Toyota will have some work to do to break the incorrect perceptions if they want to sell the IQ in the US. That is not a false statement, and I am not retarded for saying it. That is the truth. Period.

Are you retarded?? I’d rather be in a Superior import car rather than a puny american muscle death trap. They can’t even keep themselves together on the road without a recall, so what makes you think they can keep together during an accident???

As to why they made the change… The answer is simple. They wanted more room for ads and links that generate revenue.