The 4cyl Hiluxs return that, and the V6’s are even worse.

Funny how you experience is so diiferent than mine. After owning a string of Toyotas, and finding the reliabilty and build quality worse with each successive one I tried a Falcon. Imagine my surprise at the durability of the Ford product after experiencing two Toyota engine failures under 160,000 km. A string of Falcons latter and would never change back to Toyota. My wife even decided that she was sick of things falling off the Camry so we tried Subaru. Now on our second. Again we wont be back to Toyota for the small/mid size car either.

While Toyota recieved some critism with faults recorded with the Tundra Truck and V6 Camry, they still managed to rank all 3 of it’s subsidaries sold in the world’s largests market – Toyota, Lexus and Scion – within the top 6 meaning Toyota occupied half of the first 6 positions alone.

Ford managed to rank 13th, 14th and 15th respectively while Buick (or was that Caddy) for General Motors ranked 10th but with all remaining GM subsidaries perfroming poorly ranging from ‘mid to end of field’ only.

Ford supplanted Toyota—taking the top spot in five of 19 segments—in the 2007 Initial Quality Survey (IQS) by J.D. Power and Associates.

Ford earned segment awards for the Ford Mustang, Lincoln Mark LT, Lincoln MKZ, Mercury Milan and Mazda MX-5 Miata. Mazda is 33.4 percent owned by Ford.

Toyota, which grabbed the top spot in 11 segments last year, captured only four in 2007 4Runner, Sequoia, Tacoma and Lexus RX350/RX400h.

Porsche again dominated the overall ranking of brands, averaging 91 problems per 100 vehicles as it had last year. That compared with a 2007 industry average of 125 problems per 100 vehicles. Last year it was 124.

Ford’s Lincoln brand jumped from 12th in 2006 to third in overall nameplate rankings, averaging 100 problems per 100 vehicles. It was behind Porsche.

For the study, Westlake Village, Calif.-based J.D. Power collected responses from more than 97,000 buyers and lessees of new 2007 model year vehicles after 90 days of ownership. This year’s survey included 228 questions and asked for information specifically about design and production, such as defects and malfunctions.

Ford stated that they will be able supply 500 Mondeo units per month but to date have Not even cracked 400 per month.

Pretend Cars – the market speaks and i am loving with a passion.

OH WHAT A FEELING … TOYOTA !!

Probably why the Chinese Government will end up owning Rio Tinto eventually.LOL.

Clearly you have been doing all jacking lately.

FORD G SERIES U ROCK!!!

Bogans,Teletubbies,Hankies etc Love it.LOL.

The Mondeo comes to market and Ford states they will sell 500 per month but they haven’t even be able to achieve 400 yet.

Better still, i remember when the Holden Epica was launched people taunted that it will be the Camry killer but today it is undoubtedly one of the biggest flops of all in modern times.

Fairdinkum – you clowns have got nothing.

AGAIN … just to prove how little you know because your head floats around with the fairies, Chevy and Ford by far have many, many more cars in the series then what Toyota does so do some quality research and pass factual comment instead of utter rot.

Walk around the offices of a Rio Tinto biulding and Kaizen is posted everywhere.

Gee wiz Ford FG … you really are in a spin !!

With referance to NASCAR – who cares if it is a Camry, Yaris or even an electric Prius because fact is, Toyota is having wins not to mention arguably the most competitive brand in NASCAR at the moment winning exactly 50% of all events completed this year alone while Chevy, Ford and Dodge between them make up the other 50% …. oooch !!

oh yeah – how is that hole going, getting bigger !!

I’ll tell what – when you do hit rock bottom like Ford Oz, i’ll drag you out with a hanky … he, he, he !!

You truely do live in la, la, land with the fairies.

Ford or GM are not renouned for engineering quality motor vehicles. Infact, some of the most disgraceful and troublesome vehicles to have ever graced the road have come from General Motors and Ford and today is not much different.

With regards to ‘paste and post’ – you aknowledge as much as myself i can follow suit with countless examples of negative and down grading articles on either Ford, GM or Crysler for that matter but i need not to because we all know who has got themslves into that big hole of sh*t and it ain’t Toyota by a long shot.

Face value … what sort of rot is that !!

Ford is suffering miserably today because the world finally came to it’s senses and relised how poor quality, unreliable and troublesome they really are with much, much better cars able to be purchased elsewhere and that’s exactly what the market has decided to do. That said, they really sucked hard when it came to monitoring the shifting market and reacted when change had long began not to mention corporate incompetance.

Market Reality must be killing your aspirations … oooch !!

The greatest judge of all – The Market – is the undisputable telling factor of all and you hate it with a passion that Toyota is screwing your beloved Holdens and Ford right up the ar*e with a whooping size 20 steel capped boot and it tears your heart out … doesn’t it.

Get used to it because ain’t gonna change anytime soon.

With regards to Toyota’s hassles in recent times, i agree because they grew to quickly but in-defense to that, Toyota executives have acknowledged the exact thing and have stated that greater resoures and attention will be dedicated to fix the current issues and ensure repeats are comfortably controlled in the future.

If there is any current automotive manufactuer in the world that has the talent, expertise, resources, wealth and corporate brains to achieve such results – Toyota would unarguably have to be the choice.

They are taking the challenge to far more markets in the world then any other automotive manufactuer that exsists today and generally have been having a win bar a few problems that require additional attention but once those have been fixed – watch out because Toyota will not be playing for second place.

The days of Ford and GM ruling the motoring world are long over and apart from Toyota surging forward in a vicious (spelling)manner, so are many other manufactuers.