Toyota slips in reliability
October 17, 2007 by Alborz Fallah
Reports from the U.S. today suggest the king of reliability – Toyota – is starting to lose some of its thunder.
Consumer Reports, a U.S. based non-profit study into vehicle reliability, today admitted it will no longer practice recommending all new Toyota cars and trucks automatically.
The statement came amid two Toyota models earning below-average rankings in a closely watched reliability study. Those two models were the V6 version of Toyota’s flagship Camry sedan and the four-wheel-drive, V8 Tundra pickup truck.
In the U.S. the Japanese still lead the way in reliability, with Honda coming in first, closely followed up Subaru and Toyota.
Note to readers, Toyota vehicles sold in the U.S. are not built in the same factory as Toyota vehicles sold in Australia, therefore the reliability survey does not affect Australian delivered cars.
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What are you on Andrew.M… and abuse you what the hell? Lets deal with facts, Ford equal last on reliability when you say they are decent while Toyota is in top4 when I said they were. One person is right, one is wrong.
yep paul is a goldfish (very short memory)
mate you went off at me and called me a liar because you denied you said toyotas have bullet proof reliability, when you had said it.
also i have never said fords have better track reliability so what the hell straight back to ya!!!! i conceded that one remember??? i have defended the way you make out that fords are absolutely shocking and pieces of shite. (and yes you have said that)
have you ever owned a ford?
if you have you would find that their quality is acceptable. maybe not the best but quite acceptable none the less.
so what about the safety aspect?? are you still trying to say toyotas have a better or at least equal safety track record? because they dont.
dont be so biased and realise that the only thing that toyotas have going for them is their track record in reliability. and now they are even losing that
Arrr so we have a goldfish and an elephant!hahaha
Sorry honey but your first post of the day is serious!
Fords are outdated pieces of fucking shit. Ford are in real shit, due to the lack of quality. Drove a territory with 1000km on it, was falling to bits. Leavers and knobs were faulty, it just simply was rubbish. A mate of mine has a Territory GHIA (35,000km on the clock now) and is extremely un-happy with it, and is about to trade it in for a Liberty GT. I bought a manual falcon for a sister, the gearbox was just rubbish. Don’t let me start on the falcons shape. Its just outdated by yearssssss.
Now the the commodores.
What was that like 3 recalls?
I love the VE, no doubt about that, but 3 recalls is that time period is not impressive.
But don’t get me started on the Epica and Captiva. Both made in korea, and let me tell you they hide the compliance plates well! Even the salesman refuse to admit where there made, i asked one “Are there made in belgium” Salesman 2 “I don’t know”
If Holden, or in fact any car maker does this, they will lose sales.
The 380-
One cra i’ve never driven, it has good review, but just doesn’t sell. I personally dislike the shape.
And to Toyota, I do admit there quality is slipping, well sort of.
The South African corolla was pretty dodgy, but they learn’t and are now building the corollas in Japan.
The Aurion and Camry are Australian built cars, but still exceed the falcons qaulity. If this new Falcon isn’t a hit, I have grave fears for Ford Australia.