Toyota rocks!
And now they’re ready to roll
DrFill

after all those recalls, zip ties, and floor mats killing families, toyota needs some good press

wow, this is incredible

Firing Californian leftist losers and hiring Texans is always a good thing.

Yes indeed. It’s so nice to see our transplanted masters, who while they hire all union workforce in their own home countries can come here and hire U.S. peasants for peanuts. How nice. How glorious.

It’s about time someone starts hiring people. Now if the rest of the companys in the US would.

Doc, that was lame. Is everything OK in your personal life? Seriously… we miss being provoked. “Toyota rocks! And now they’re ready to roll”? Did you have your mom’s old cheerleader skirt on when you hit submit on that gem?

i think smegley phoned that one in too…disappointing…

I think Smegley is mayer_ray. And if you are mayer_ray I know what will draw you out.

So… how many Quatloos are you willing to pay for Uhura’s services?

+1 johnny
I felt like I was watching Happy Days, or Barney.

Johnny
I’d need a crypt to keep up with your personal foibles
Have another biscuit
DrFill

Is that you “rockin and rollin” Dr Fill?

What about the Mississippi plant they built and have let sit empty for 2 years?

Building more Tundra’s? Who is buying that butt ugly junker??? Texans buys a lot of trucks, I rarely see one of those posers on the road. Maybe they are being shipped to Cali, it IS the land of fruits and nuts I am told.

I’m pretty sure it is, gbb. A 22 year old frat kid from California told me he thinks Priuses are awesome and is really thinking about buying one. Needless to say I revoked his man card on the spot. Zero tolerance policy.

Mmmm… Uhura… mmm… Oh, sorry. I see the Canadian is feeling frisky today.

For now, Toyota is the Rose of San Antone. In all seriousness: As we all sit here and crack on each other’s cars, opinions, social skills, sexual orientations, et al, one in ten capable Americans are out of work. This news can only be construed as being of the “good” variety. I feel for the 13,000 or so Texans that won’t be selected, but hopefully this is the beginning of a trend, and not just an anomaly. Right now, we should be rooting for the success of ALL the players in the automotive industry.

Finally, to avoid ending on a sappy note: MY cars, opinions, social skills, and sexual orientation(s) rule, and yours suck!!!!

To clarify–I meant the news about Toyota is of the good variety, not the fact that 10% of Americans are unemployed. That didn’t sound very good when I read it back. Sorry…

Hopefully those new hires don’t think this is going to be a career job. The issues with rust and not having a one ton chassis could hinder toyoda from becoming a big deal in the large pick up truck world. toyoda does not offer a 250 or 350 chassis for a real working truck. they do a great jog with the sissy tacoma models, this will be the only reason for increase in staff for the plant.

Smegley Wanxalot
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Firing Californian leftist losers and hiring Texans is always a good thing.
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Why are some Americans so stupid … like you?

ashes,
because the majority of right wingers never stepped a foot into a college or university. the education level of right wingers intales am radio, white man news “fox” news, and home schooling. hence, the ingnorant comments.

A(sshole)4(hire) don’t tell us that you bit off your customer’s junk for liking Prius? Who would thought of such violence in homosexual community?

On a serious note it is a tenuous hiring process to select 850 candidates out of 14K applicants. Better then most colleges. As a result 860 workers will accomplish what 4700 union members did. Sad statistic for unions.

alsvw,
Mix in a spelling class, a punctuation class, and maybe some typing lessons with your Western Civ and Philosophy courseload, as long as you’re getting educated. Or do they not offer anything like that at Middle Mudgut County Community College?

Excellent use of the word, “hence,” though, Mr. Smarty McSmartsmart.

This is good news for the auto industry. Hopefully, the 850 jobs will focus on undercoating processes and rust prevention for these texas trd’s

johngalt
your exactly my point. your the type of person that waves the american flag. yet, drives a toyota or honda. good work helping to bury the american economy. redneck honor system.

Alsvw, he’s serious, and so am I. If you can’t write properly, don’t make fun of another’s education level until you can. Your college tuition is a major waste of money, and until you learn to punctuate, capitalize, and use the word “you’re” properly (I learned that in high school), you have absolutely no room to talk. Hypocrite.

beatusmom-
ar you sure its not hipocrite. go wave your american flag in your toyota. if you can sleep at night, good riddins to bad rubbish. i guess firing leftis americans in california is ok with you, and hiring real americans from texas? yes, hence the stupid comments from uneducated americans. like yourself and smeglywexalot.

It’s hypocrite.
And intales is spelled entails.
Riddins is spelled riddance.
Leftis is spelled leftist.
Ar is usually spelled are, at least in english speaking countries.

Your grammar and puncuation is a whoooole other story that I don’t feel like forwarding to my old english professor… Oh and learn the difference between your and you’re!

Seriously man, please at least have your mom or someone proof read your BS before you post it ok? If you really are the intelligent liberal intellectual you seem to think you are, I’m sure there is a dictionary in your house somewhere! Or open up Dictionary.com! You’re already on the internet!

Not worried about the spelling mistakes people make here or elsewhere on the net. Generally no one but Blakkar here is into writing theses.

As for those questioning the education level of anyone who is not a leftist, big-government loving idiot who is so afraid of life that you need a nanny to care for him because he is inadequate to the task as you apparently are, well … my bet is that you are the people who voted for and hang on every dingleberry of that not so shiny new POSident, Buttcrack Obolshevik.

Yes, you voted for a Harvard eductated neophyte who, when teleprompted and rehearsed, in inspiring indeed to you lemmings, and when off the teleprompter mutters “uhhh uhhh” between every word or two because he is a clueless shìt who thinks the USA has 57 states not including the “one state” of Alaska and Hawaii. He does not even know his home state is different from Hawaii – but if you call this retardation smart then you have no clue what the word means so your assessment of my background is inherently flawed.

But when Barky Oblowhard is through screwing up the nation, we may just have his 57 states afterall. He now doubt is working on getting the following 7 new states added:
…….. Cuba
…….. Venezuela
…….. Iran
…….. North Korea
…….. Tora Bora (he’ll be making this a nation/state after he lets our troops die)
…….. Honduras (after he reinstalls their Castro-wannabee Zelaya), and
…….. Sudan
Once he gets these 7 idiots nations into the Union, we’ll have 8 dime-store dictators running the show. But that’s okay with you fools.

As I said to LWA elsewhere, I’m not about D’s and R’s or left and right – I’m about liberty and the Constitution. In my world, you’re free to subjugate yoursleves to anyone you wish, but no on is free to pull others under the same oppressive bus they stupidly wish to be under themselves, but that yanking the whole nation under the bus is what you fools elected, and that is why virtually every poll shows the nation is more divided than even under the last idiot, and its getting worse. People in my area are armed to the hilt about it, and that is just fine with me because I trust everyone of them more to do what’s right for the country than I trust anyone in DC.

2wheeler
yes, its called being sarcastic. dumbass

Doubt it aslvw, I just think you can’t spell.

smeglywaxoffalot-
back on the farm, i mean the topic of some redneck stating that its ok to fire people because they live in california. yet, go hire people from texas. which was the original topic.
not some rant on having a black man being president, and some upset uneducated white man having issues.
and again are you that americant waving his american flag on his toyota truck and worships glenn beck for fighting to keep american white? dude, do you know how much money i have made on weapon stocks. i knew how pissed off the white man was going to be with a black president. i am a member of the nra. i talk to trash like you at every gun show and laugh all the way to the bank.
haha, your whole premise of being an american is an oxymoron. hate is not a part of education. no matter what sean hannity tells you on am radio.

2wheeledspeed, would you mind forwarding that to Borat as well? I think he still writes on that paper from kindergarten, you know the ones that have the double sized lines with the dotted one in the middle?

Johnny, if Uhura is smart she’ll take quatloos over Bernanke-bucks because quatloos will be worth more in a year.

Alsvw was caught, and is now claiming “sarcasm”. Typical.

I currently drive a Nissan that was built in the states.

I ride a Kawasaki with an Irish flag on my backpack

How close is that to US flag waving Toyota driver?

A4, I can give Borat a pass on most english mistakes because well… His name is Borat!

Does that mean he gets a free pass on nude wrestling a hairy fat guy in a hotel room? I hope not.

^ Nope. He has to pay for that kind of entertainment. ^

I also forgot to mention my wife’s Mexican flag hanging from the rear-view mirror. People give me strange looks when they see me driving, but I don’t care.

You have a Mexican flag in a Nissan without a fart can exhaust? I’m impressed beatus!

I’m gonna go with beatus on that one, he has to pay for that. And it can’t happen within several miles of my location.

now a mexican flag on a toyota i can understand. try buying a toyota in orlando, fl. you have to ask for a salesman that can speak english.

SMEGLY

oops.

SMEGLY WAXOFFSALOT- so, i guess you answered my question. you are one of those psuedo americans that only drive non american autos with a big american flag. or is your CONFEDERATE flag? you have already had your tantrum on black obama and your hatred toward non whites in america. dude, why don’t you keep your ignorace to some other site. this site is about autos, it is not some redneck dump site on how obama is not a real american.

Is a Toyota (Or Nissan, or Honda, or anything) built in America, by Americans a less American car than say for example… A Chevy built in Canada by Canadians or a Ford built in Mexico by Mexicans? Just food for thought…

Toyotas are just crap, I wouldn’t care if they were hand built by the pope, I already have a toaster.

Lol, I have to agree with you there. Toyota hasn’t built anything I would even consider in over a decade.

A4, if the pope builds your toaster, your communion bread will be crunchier.

H1N1 toast!

Not really good news for Toyota . They are only adding jobs because of the closure of the NUMMI, which, as the article says, employed 4,700. This still equals a net loss of 3,850 jobs. It is not because Toyo-duh rules, they had to move production of the Tacoma to this plant. Tundra is in a free-fall, as the below exerpt from the below article by Tom Libby of the DFP reports the latest of Tundra’s woes:

“…Tundra’s share of the segment has dipped to 6.92% (September YTD), its lowest segment share since 2006, before the launch of the larger truck. Tundra’s share is also down more than a point and a half from its 2008 calendar year share.

Tundra’s September YTD unit sales are down 50.8%, the second greatest drop in the segment after that of the Titan, more than twice the F-Series drop of 24.8% and considerably more than the segment’s decline of 34.1%. In nine months, Toyota dealers have delivered just 56,599 Tundras, which means total 2009 deliveries will fall short of the century mark for the first time since 2002. The San Antonio plant where the Tundra is assembled was originally planned to assemble 200,000 units, with the potential to expand to 300,000 units if needed. This under-utilization of the San Antonio plant is one reason for Toyota’s well-publicized losses both in the U.S. and globally.

A key reason for the Tundra’s retreat in 2009 is the effective launches of re-designed Ford and Dodge full-size light-duty pickups for the 2009 model year. The complete F-Series model line has captured 36.1% of the segment so far this year, and if that share were to hold for the rest of the year, it would be the F-Series’ highest annual segment share since 2001. Similarly, the Ram’s September YTD share of 17.51% would surpass all results since 2003 if Dodge were able to maintain that level. The strength of these new products has also impacted the aging Nissan Titan, whose nine-month 2009 share of 1.68% is lower than any annual result since the model’s launch.

Actual transaction prices from Edmunds.com highlight the Tundra’s declining clout. In eleven of the twelve months in 2008, Tundra sold at a higher transaction price than the F-150, Silverado 1500, Ram 1500 and Titan. However, in every month of 2009, one or more of the domestic light-duty pickups has sold at a higher price than the Toyota product… “

“I’m not about D’s and R’s or left and right” & “Californian leftist losers and hiring Texans is always a good thing.”

yeah, smeg, you’re totally consistent with your comments in this thread no offense, but if you are really all about the Constitution and liberty and so forth, and not about d’s and r’s or left and right, “leftist” wouldn’t be a venomous insult in your arsenal…the way you’ve wielded the term numerous times makes it quite obvious you are sensitive to d’s and r’s and left and right…you’ve made that much more clear than most that post here, actually…you’re not subtle about it…and that, to me, is perfectly fine…embrace it…wear it…be it…but don’t pretend you’re agnostic with respect to politics…you certainly have not portrayed yourself that way here thus far…and don’t take that like an insult, i’ve obviously embraced a position for the purpose of commenting here, although as many have pointed out over the months i’ve been here, i’m much more a la carte with respect to my personal politics…but, at the same time, you don’t see me throwing random political barbs all over the place that insult folks with an opposing view…i attack when my position is attacked, but generally speaking, i ain’t the one starting it…

LWA, lefties are like righties – you both want to control everyone else’s life and limit their freedoms based upon your self-assumed superior life view.

In the case of this site, your goddamned leftist POSident stole an automotive company and gave it to his leftist UAW buddies, so that is on the table here always when that shìtbag Oblowhard’s intervention is within sniffing range. You can see that any way you want (”he needed to, he’s cleaning up Bush’s mess) but he stole and used Chavez-like fascist tactics to suppress the “evil capitalists” who had more legitimate claims that the UAW or the feds.

Also, your handle here broadcasts with every post an agenda which, just like a control-happy religious rightwing agenda, repulses the crap out of me. That starts it with me. If you think I dont slam my door and express a few expletives when religious right-wingers show up with their BS then you are wrong. Of course you don’t have to change your handle, but eff anyone who thinks I need to shut up or am inconsistent.

Hatred of your or any control-happy eff-headed belief structure should be the norm in this country, not the exception. If I had the handle “BarackObamaCanSuckMyDìck” then I would expect those who support him to smack me up every time I post, and you should expect nothing less because I don’t see where your handle is much different.

To be honest, I did consider a Sienna. It’s actually a very nice minivan and has the same horsepower rating as my Quest. Being that it’s smaller and lighter than the Quest, though, it is a bit quicker. Also, the Sienna has some really nice features, like windows on the sliding doors that roll down. and seats for eight people.

However, I chose the Quest mostly for its size, but also for its seats. They are bigger than just about anything, and I was going to be transporting four adults and three children often. That just wasn’t as comfortable in the Sienna (the back seats are better for kids). The only other minivan at the time that was as big was the Dodge Grand Caravan, which I also considered. But the Dodge at that time was on a very dated platform, had seats that were a pain in the rear to fold, had an engine that just wasn’t as powerful as other offerings, and really didn’t have as much cargo room as the Quest did. Heck, I can lay several full sheets of plywood flat down when I fold my seats down. That was important to me, too. No other minivan at that time could do that. I believe the latest Grand Caravan can, but remember, this was 2003.

One other thing: A coworker bought a Sienna shortly after I bought my Quest. He bragged to me about how he got a great deal, and how they knocked off almost $6,000 for him because he worked with me and I used to make the commercials for the dealer (yes, he played that card). He told me he only paid $42,000 for the Sienna, and that it was fully loaded, and other people were paying so much more. However, when he asked how much I paid for the Quest, and I told him it was less than $25,000, he stood in shock. The fully loaded Sienna shouldn’t have gone for more than $35,000 at that time, but the dealer markups were ridiculous. Price was another major determining factor for me, and I’m very glad I didn’t follow the sheeple. My Quest is already paid off.

Oh, and A4, I hate fart cans, and so does my wife.

I know a guy with a Quest who loads his Ducati in the back and goes on roadtrips with it, he sleeps in the back next to his “Italian beauty” and takes the bike out for shorter rides. He loves that darned thing.

Nice.

Did they hire them to melt down all the rusted out trucks?

mayB they’ll hire sum1 who nose about bldg carsv now
Toyota sucks!

uhuru was hort, as was da greeb woman kirk put iot 2 in da ‘09 movie
Texans buys a lot of trucks, but day p[refer real trucks

I learned 2 spell Ypu’re (and “your” i) in elementarey skool.

2 many peole are jealas and hate the Obamster, bzcuz he’s beringing da USA 2 sda lite. da GOP screwed it up, and now da King o’ da freeworld jhas 2 clean it up. Either ride da hope train or get outta da way!

glenn beck ius a moron, and ian embarrasmient to all Mormons

Toyotas are just crap, is turer tjan anytjing even da pope (divinely inspred, do he nmay B) could say riute now. Toyotas R killing peoples

the Obamster is heterosexua;l. He is da king of da Free World, and hoas no time for cheating on dat fine-ass michelle

da Suenna is a POS sda quest is not. argument overt.

ducatis Rn GR8!

Beatus? Translation?

Okay. Here it goes:

“Maybe they’ll hire someone who knows about building cars now. Toyota sucks! Uhura was hot, as was the green woman Kirk put it to in that 2009 movie. Texans buy a lot of trucks, but they prefer real trucks. I learned to spell “you’re” and “your” in elementary school. Too many people are jealous and hate the Obamster, because he’s bringing the USA to the light. The GOP screwed it up, and now the King of the Free World has to clean it up. Either ride the hope train or get out of the way. Glenn Beck is a moron, and an embarrassment to all Mormons. Toyotas are just crap, it’s truer than anything even the Pope (divinely inspired, though he may be) could say right now. Toyotas are killing people. The Obamster is heterosexual. He is the King of the Free World, and has no time for cheating on that fine-ass Michelle. The Sienna is a POS and the Quest is not. Argument over. Ducatis run great!”

I think that’s right. I may have flubbed a few here and there, but I believe I did well this time.

Ktulu is one of the most eloquent lefties there is.

oh well, i just got word that i got a job workin there, i may not be a toyota fan but hell a job is a job – yippee ki yay motha focka!

I knew it. Ktulu writes newspaper columns:

http://probablybadnews.com/2009/10/20/funny-news-headlines-tutu-speaks-in-tongues/