Was Toyota negligent? I don’t know. Did Toyota react too slowly to information about defects? I don’t know.
But I know the following:
- Congressional hearings will provide little or no useful information concerning these questions.
- It serves no legitimate purpose to have family members of accident victims testify before the U.S. Congress.
- The U.S. government needs to get out of the automotive business as soon as possible.
- I’ll buy another Toyota before I buy car from GM or Chrysler.
BMW’s new theme is “BMW is joy.” The corporate geniuses who approved this campaign should be demoted or retired. While it might help a little with would-be Mercedes or Lexus buyers, the winners will be Audi and Porsche.
BMW owners / lovers should complain about the diminution of the brand and boycott until the new theme is scrapped.
The NFL is a legal cartel made possible by an exemption from U.S. antitrust law. Commissioner Roger Goodell’s comments about the league’s “high standards” in the context of a possible ownership bid by Rush Limbaugh prove that Goodell is a hypocritical jack–s. If the NFL wants to play politics, in a just world it would be stripped of its antitrust exemption.