BrewSwillis

For someone who hates lazyness.....maybe you should have been a little less lazy and did some research to find out that there were no Challengers in the 60's. The first Challenger debuted in 1970. If you think the LX cars are "all the same car", then I guess you havent seen some of the Ford twins or triplets. Or the GM trucks, SUV's , and minivans? The 300 and Magnum share similar body panels, but one is an upscale sedan, and the other is a sporty affordable wagon. The Charger doesn't share ANY body panels with either of them. I don't see how anyone that likes the Camaro, wouldn't like the Challenger. The Camaro is amazing, and so is the Challenger. People are going crazy over both of them, because these are the cars that people have been waiting for since they stopped making them in the 70's. Do you think there is a reason why the Camaro concept looks more like a '69 then an '83?

Did you miss the part about it setting a record?

U.S. sales of the Chrysler 300 surpassed the 300,000 mark in April 2006, making it the quickest Chrysler brand vehicle to reach the milestone in 25 months. This comes on the heels of another Chrysler brand achievement: global sales of the Chrysler PT Cruiser exceeded one million units in March. http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060427/deth022.html?.v=50 Well, so much for the people on here that were so sure that the 300's sales would tank after the first year......and also, so much for the people who said retro and the PT Cruiser were dead!

Hell if I know. I could give two $h!s about Mercedes or Daimler. They haven't screwed up Chrysler too badly yet....and they have actually contributed some good things like modern RWD knowledge to help get the LX's back to RWD rather quickly. And their transmissions seem to be fairly good. The German talk doesn't bother me at all. Bring it on! I still know a ton of people who work for Chrysler, and don't know anyone who works for Toyota. My company sells quite a few parts to Chrysler.....and yet again, none to Toyota.

Those are just little things I like to add the get the import fanboys riled up. (I know what it meant)

And the denial begins/continues: "tmusa" is the Toyota rep. Way to add "usa" to your name like you are some kind patriotic American.

Toyota has ungodly amounts of money. They will fix this problem by throwing a ton of money at it, and by doing something crazy like giving out a billion dollars worth of laptops for people's problems......and they will in the end come out being yet another example of how "Detroit" should be doing business. There will be no talk of bad product, and bad quality......all the talk will be of how Toyota fixed it (with hush money)! ....and they will continue to do this (millions of dollars of Ipod's for Lexus recalls) until their cash reserves are brought back down into the atmosphere, and they can no longer buy their way out of their problems. But I don't see that happening anytime soon......unfortunately.

I don't think those even work. I probably would have crashed the car if I was driving, because I tried to tune in very quickly, becasue I assumed the range wasn't very far......and I didn't get nuthin! LAME.

Check out the results of the poll on C&D's front page:

I think PMD reads my posts.......or maybe "great minds think alike"??

While most of the time I'd like to see lance's Nuts banned......he does have a knack for pissing off the import humpers!

I'm not botanist, nor do I play one on TV........but from limited knowledge of agriculture, I doubt Ethanol is "the answer". I don't think growing all of our fuel would be the key, because eventually you would use up all of the fertile soil, and end up with barren dust that nothing will grow in. It may help, but I'm sure it's not "the answer".

With no retirees or health care costs in Japan (where they make most of their cars), and very few retirees and little investment in America, it should be.

Toyota is now proving that they know Americans are stupid. Don't they think people will be asking themselves "if Toyota is hiring all these people.....and the Big 3 are dumping many more.......then are Americans really gaining anything?" The Big 3 used to pay good Union wages for honest working Americans.....but now the Japanese have show that you should just use non-union low wage suppliers to make your parts.....and screw the American working class. Toyota: "Great for Reducing the American Standards of Living"

Big deal! They find the one area where a small hybrid is sure to win........stop and go city/suburb driving....and then it's supposed to be a suprise when it does win?? Is the hybrid supposed to be validated by this? If all you use your vehicle for is stop and go city driving, then a hybrid or fully electric vehicle is the vehicle of choice. If you drive on the highway, then you should get a deisel or small displacement engine.

Source WKJeeps.com and Allpar.com

Well, considering it cost half as much as a Lexus, then yeah.....right now it is probably worth half......as much as a Lexus. All while looing like it costs more, and performing just as well.....or better than the ones with leaking oil, bad transmissions, and faulty seatbelts. It has had one recall for a coolant resevoir bracket. It could possibly have broke and damage a belt. Problems after 40,000 miles: Loose speaker grille - fixed under warrranty Noise from moon roof - Bolt tightened under warranty Bad windshield wiper switch - Replaced under warranty. ......and I bought one the first ones off the line!

While I do believe that, to some extent. Stupid questions deserve stupid answers.

Hush money! Aren't you not supposed to talk about your bad Lexus transmission in exchange for the gas card??

Yes.

I don't have to be an expert to see that if Toyota can waste 8.5 million dollars on giving away Ipod nanos, and not even blink an eye........then yes their vehicles are overpriced. They could be selling them cheaper, and still be making major profit off the stupid Americans that buy them. I've only driven one Lexus back in the late 90's, and was not impressed. Maybe they are better now? Doesn't seem like it with recalls, and that one forum posting about oil leaks and bad transmissions.

A guy supporting Toyota is complaining about Big 3 "propaganda" !! You can pick and choose all you want, but the Toyota number of 35.8% includes Lexus, which they sell a shiat load of here. So what if the few vehicles they build here have a high domestic content......it doesn't do much for the overall picture. It's a percentage, not overall volume. If Toyota sells 100,000 vehicles with 70% domestic content and GM sells 1,000,000 vehicles with 65% domestic content........which is better for America??

More FACTS: Note, the difference in Toyota's percentages is because the articles were written a couple years apart.....still FACTUAL DATA though!