Toyota's 3 brands (Toyota, Lexus and Scion) are just about set to become the world's largest auto maker over GM's 8 (Chevrolet, Cadillac, Pontiac, Buick, GMC, Hummer, Saab, Saturn). I think that real working people will abandon any one brand for a superior one and Toyota has proven itself again and again. Price a '99 Taurus vs a '99 Camry the Toyota just doesn't lose value the way the Ford does. Same with Ranger vs Tacoma... Where I work we've got "product quality issues" and every time they say "we've got great support and people will continue to buy if we've got great support" I cringe. People will switch to better products. -Curt Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 09:16:59 -0500 From: "Kaleb C. Striplin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [MBZ] Small Diesel PU To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
I can assure you that people who like their big american trucks will most likely not be interested in a toyota. As it stands now, people are really big into "their" brand, Ford, Chevy, or Dodge. I just dont see those type of people going foreign Curt Raymond wrote: > Thats exactly the attitude that got the big 3 automakers into the position they're in today. > I think the magic would actually be a 3/4 ton pickup gas or diesel. I think the larger boat and construction type of people have kept away from Toyota pickups so far just because of the lack of a real heavy duty truck. > > That said years ago when I worked at a Boy Scout camp we had an early T100 (this would have been '93 or so) and we beat the piss out of it. It was regularly loaded with 3/4 to 1 ton of all the crap it takes to make a camp work and it never winced. > > -Curt > -- Kaleb C. Striplin/Claremore, OK 91 300D 2.5 Turbo, 90 420SEL, 89 560SEL, 87 420SEL, 87 300SDL, 85 380SE, 85 300D, 84 190D 2.2, 83 300TD, 81 300TD, 81 240D, 76 240D, 76 300D, 74 240D, 73 280SEL 4.5, 72 250C, 69 250 http://www.striplin.net --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Get on board. You're invited to try the new Yahoo! Mail Beta. From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Aug 08 15:48:13 2006 Received: from mail1.mx.voyager.net ([216.93.66.204]) by server8.arterytc8.net with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GAToT-0007MG-Fl for mercedes@okiebenz.com; Tue, 08 Aug 2006 15:48:13 +0000 Received: from voyager.net (d31.as3.sfld1.mi.core.com [209.153.160.160]) by mail1.mx.voyager.net (8.13.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id k78Fm4TF071443 for <mercedes@okiebenz.com>; Tue, 8 Aug 2006 11:48:04 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 11:48:04 -0400 From: Mitch Haley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Antivirus-Scanner: Clean mail though you should still use an Antivirus Subject: Re: [MBZ] Small Diesel PU X-BeenThere: mercedes@okiebenz.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7.cp2 Precedence: list Reply-To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> List-Id: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes_okiebenz.com.okiebenz.com> List-Unsubscribe: <http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com>, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Archive: </pipermail/mercedes_okiebenz.com> List-Post: <mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com> List-Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Subscribe: <http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com>, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 15:48:13 -0000 Curt Raymond wrote: > Price a '99 Taurus vs a '99 Camry the Toyota just doesn't lose value the way > the Ford does. But the Camry likely sold for list or within $500 of it. The Taurus sold for thousands less, unless the original owner was an idiot. How much do you lose in 7 years from new street price to used with each?
