Nickname: Andrew

Review: Domestic auto makers are only sending jobs oversees because more people are buying foreign cars. This causes them a loss in profit and sending jobs oversees where you only make a few dollars a day as opposed to what used to be $30 some an hour here is the only thing that keeps them alive. Everyone wants a Toyota or Honda factory, so cities give them tax breaks and other incentives while old-time domestic manufacturers pay all of their duty to the towns. Toyota and Honda tend to build plants in cities and rural areas where there never was much anyway. This causes domestic plants such as Delphi in larger cities such as Dayton, Ohio to all shut down, collapsing that area's economy. Toyota plants may do some good where they are built, but they aren't rushing in to replace jobs that they are eliminating elsewhere. If everyone bought American in the first place, we would never have had this issue.

Date reviewed: Aug 18, 2006 11:46 PM

Nickname: Clay

Review: I hope people can get a big picture. Hybrid systems do help us save energy and makes us less dependent on foreign oil. Cleaner air and less pollution are great, but most importantly, if we need less oil, we can save an unbelievably large amount of money simply by not dealing with that region that I personally want my country to have nothing to do with. If all Americans switch to hybrid cars tomorrow, we can at least stop all the Middle East oil import, according to MIT's Technology Review. Yes, I'm rather sad that this technology is mostly led by a non-American company. But while many U.S manufacturers send jobs overseas, Toyota and other Japanese car manufacturers are willing to create jobs here. That's why the number of jobs in the U.S. auto industry has remained stable despite the fall of Big 3. I'd rather buy a Toyota car and keep some jobs here than paying money to countries where people(off course not all of them) hate America. I'm fed up with financing both sides of the war.

Date reviewed: Mar 22, 2006 8:16 PM

Nickname: Tim

Review: It is nice to finally get a little balance in the press. Toyota is a great company and has grown smartly and slowly for 20+ years. The Big-3, once dominant, are having to shrink in the new global market, never a pretty thing and usually accompanied by great pain. In a time when the accepted truth is foreign perfection and domestic stupidity it is nice to see some balanced reporting. Toyota is not as perfect as many think and the painful shrinking of the Big 3 may be necessary, but it will come with ramifications for America's industrial strength. It is fine for people to prefer Toyota, but it is nice to see the halo tarnished a bit with reality.

Date reviewed: Dec 19, 2005 3:00 PM