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Toyota and electronics there is a winning combination.
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Elton John, Dame Edna maybe it's the "pride edition" don't know what they would call the yellow in the picture but probably be coming out in flaming red :happy feet:
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As far as I know, that isn't correct. That is only true for the Province of Quebec, where French must have at least equivalent prominence. There is a small amount of key information that must be given in both official languages, but not the entire label.
http://www.gattiassociates.com/CM/Articles/Articles1295.asp
http://www.olf.gouv.qc.ca/english/charter/title1chapter7.html
Edit: I just did some checking, and most company comply with both regulations. There are a couple though, that don't comply with the Quebec law.
All product sold in Canada must have ingredients, instructions and warnings in both official languages.
Now as for the students this thread was about the school was wrong, if there was a disturbance it should have been dealt with by those actions not by the clothes someone was wearing(gang colors an exception). If you have a problem with people displaying their countries flag within their own borders maybe you shouldn't be in that country.
Steve
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My vote for POTW!!!
:hysterical: Thanks.
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I noted your call on that. If that's the eventuality (and assuming Fiat decides not to pursue anything greater than class 5), I wonder if it would've made sense to rebrand the pickups as Jeep, instead of Ram. As a brand, Ram has no equity other than the previous model designation and visual recognition. Jeep, OTOH, has excellent brand recognition/worth. I think a substantial amount of buyers want the Cummins diesel and wouldn't have been deterred by the Jeep designation-in fact it might've helped. Any thoughts?
My thoughts are by having the Ram and Jeep brands separate you have 2 things to sell if things go bad. Well 3 if you count selling the car plants to turn into indoor paintball ranges.
Steve
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Still no coverage elsewhere. Do a search and only this forum comes up. Seems if it was credible it would have been picked up by the wire services......
I thought only Honda had built a robot.
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"The only question left is why someone is sure it is a photoshop."
snicker.....Anyone?.....
Whatever do you mean? :angel:
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This is something the Toyota conspiracy nuts forgot about. VW has said they want to be the number 1 auto manufacturer in the world what better way to do that than kick the biggest competition in the dangly bits in their biggest market then step in and pick up some sales in VW's smallest. Time to "unpimp your auto sales".
Steve
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If I understood this correctly, because the driver's side airbag didn't go off and there were no obvious indications it was a bomb type explosions, the police investigators thought there might be hydraulic system problem with excess pressure. Do car hydraulic systems get that pressurized anyway? Wouldn't there have been hydraulic fluid all over the interior if one exploded as they're explaining?
Notice how in the article they don't open the hood to show how a hydraulic line from the engine would have blown through a firewall and into the cabin. Why is the back window blown out and not the front? Where's all the broken glass from the back window? Why are the side windows ok? So many questions...
Japanese cars and products generally aren't very popular in China, so there may have been an effort here to discredit their reputation. The Toyota banner ads on the site are for US based sales as it is a US based website.
Depends on the way the force went through the car, a rear end collision wont set off the air bags. If there was an accumulator there and the casing let go without rupturing the bladder there would be a loss of oil, not sure of automotive but hyd accumulators in heavy equipment depending on the system use a nitrogen charge of 800 to 1700 psi. The back window is on the ground behind the crowd. Since the rear window came out there is no more internal pressure and the guys leg was in the way to stop shrapnel there was nothing to break the side windows. The only question left is why someone is sure it is a photoshop.
Steve
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Toyota outdoes the big three again biggest fine ever to an auto manufacture. :happy feet:
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You can look at several car manufacturers for arrogance and half-truths that go back decades.......
http://www.wfu.edu/~palmitar/Law&Valuation/Papers/1999/Leggett-pinto.html
Most of the arrogance and half truths comes from import owners justifying their pos.
Steve
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So I was talking after the recall was performed. No one is denying there is problem. We are talking about some saying it is happening again (SA) AFTER THE Recall and Toyota denying it.
How will repairing a pedal that "sticks" or "is slow to return" fix the problem? The problem is sudden acceleration not suddenly going the same speed or takes a hell of a long time to return to idle.
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Class action lawsuit started in Canada doesn't think it is the pedal either
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20100201/toyota_lawsuits_100201?s_name=&no_ads=
quote from article
"Our concern now is that the fix is not going to the heart of the problem which we allege is a faulty computer system," he told CTV News Channel Monday afternoon.
"This problem has been going on for years in the United States primarily, starting in 2002 with a new computer system that was designed to regulate acceleration and braking."
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Should be amusing at the new car shows. Might have to go the to the local one this weekend.
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Not really. Western Canada B.C Alberta Sask Manitoba The Yukon NWT and Nunavit is and has stabilized. Some places like Sask never even slowed. Alberta is already rebounding. We are calling it the 90 day ressesion. The Oil Sands are back on track Esso Annouced that the 8 billion dollar Kearl project is moving forward. And a host of other stuff is remping back up. We are seeing things step back up. For us it was a market correction more than anything else companys were able to shed the warm bodies they had hired just to fill a space and we sent back almost all the forgein and temp workers plus Construction prices fell back to rates that were more realistic. Heck the big guys halted projects to drive the rates down this was being done even before the resession official started.
B.C is going strong as is Sask and Manitoba is slowly getting back in step. The territories did not slow at all.
It is Ontario that got hit the worst. And since they are the center of universe as far as Canada is concerned the Canadian Economic barometer for the media tends reflect that. But they were in a mess before this Economic slump happened, it just compounded the exsisting problem. Ontario is not going to be in kind of stable economic shape for the foreseeable future. The province is in a state of change and it is going to be long road to recovery.
All oin all most of Canada is doing just fine. Now if we can get the banks to free up some capital lending things will be right back where they were 18 months ago in a couple short months.
Matthew
Before you start saying Kearl lake is a good thing for Alberta you should read this report from the AFL, there will not be any upgrading of the bitumen done here. That means lost jobs lost royalties and with trade agreements lost control of our resources. U.S refineries are making plans to upgrade and refine our resources and control the distribution and pricing of the finished product, and Premier Stelmach went down there to thank them for it, if we don't do something now to limit the export of our raw resources us and future generations are screwed!!!!! Check out the report here
www.afl.org/upload/LostDownPipelineRevised.pdf and then sign the online petition here
www.afl.org/subscribe2.html
Steve
Navistar to invest in new engine architecture
in Competing Products
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I'm intrested to see how they are able to pass emission levels with that engine, Detroit Diesel phased out thier 2 strokes 20 years ago because couldn't meet incoming regulations. Then there is the blow by and oil leaks.