Comments on: Volkswagen chasing Toyota

By: Neo Utopia

Neo Utopia — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 11:52:33 +0000

The facts are:

volkswagen are trying to catch up to toyota’s reliability and profitability, toyota is trying to catchup to volkswagen’s design, drivability and perhaps desirability.

In a sustainability view point i hope both manufacturers will be using the best possible environmental ethics while trying to dominate the auto industry.

By the way, chinese buy more volkswagens over toyotas because they generally still prefer not to buy japanese stuff because of dark historical rivalry, which is ironically quite the opposite in australia, considering australia’s dark past in WW2 with japan, maybe us auzys get over things more quickly or something. By the way, in auz toyota brainwash’s people with advertising everywhere, they are very determined to convince us we should buy a new toyota every three years, that equals mass consumerism, that equals arrogance and taking things for granted!

Sorry to seem like a hysterical hippy but they are the facts, like it or not!

Post script, i personally think honda or even mazda have a better chance at catching up to toyota in the a to b vehicle category, because that is the category volkswagen should be counting. Even i think that and i myself own a newish volkswagen and not a honda or mazda. I think volkswagen should firstly try to catchup to the benchmark honda in terms of fit and finnish and reliability before even thinking of catching up to toyota.

By: anthony

anthony — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:54:34 +0000

VW has a very attractive range of cars,and models like the Jetta are proving to be hugely sucessful.
Much more desirable than either a Corolla or Camry.

By: Fred

Fred — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 06:35:49 +0000

That’s really a skyscraper order. VWs are costlier to maintain, and nowhere near Toyota’s reliability. Along with performance and technology, build quality is very good, as expected of German cars, but it takes much more than that to trounce on the Japanese. VW claim they’re more advanced than Toyota, but who makes hybrids? Audis, which are starting to look uglier, are no BMWs in terms of excitement, Benzes in comfort, and Lexuses on dependability. If they can’t keep the design great, there’s really no sense in buying the 4-rounded badge over the blue/white propeller, the 3-pointed star or the dynamic L.

By: phaeton

phaeton — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 05:24:38 +0000

Just remember everyone VW is made up of 8 brands Audi,Bentley, Bugatti, SEAT, Skoda, VW and VWCV.

All will contribute to the 10 Million sales that Volkswagen AG is aiming for.

By: CHRIS PARR

CHRIS PARR — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 03:12:45 +0000

Good luck VW, someone needs to challenge toyota now that
GM and ford are no where!!!

By: Kiasu

Kiasu — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 08:37:15 +0000

VW has a long way to go before catching up to Toyota, the only car company I see that is capable of doing so in the long run are Honda and Hyundai.

VW does have a strong market in China, if anyone has been to China they will know that almost all taxis are VW’s.

One thing that many people (car enthusiast) always seem to forget is that Toyota has mastered the art of selling to a mass market, it doesn’t matter if the car is FUN to drive or attractive to look at. if it is reliable, quality and gets the job done and doesn’t look awful. THAT IS ALL. Yes my family has a Toyota Camry and it is the most reliable vehicle he had for a LONG time.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 06:53:11 +0000

Lets just hope they (VW) don’t bring themselves down to Toyota’s level (as it was said) by designing uninspiring cars that handle and go poorly.

Generally competition improves the breed, that is until you start campeting on how much you can undercut someone. In the end we consumers will lose due to even further poor build quality and workmanship.

Cheers
Steve

By: golfschwein

golfschwein — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 06:49:17 +0000

Indeed, JW. Whether they achieve it is another thing. Their strengths lie in other parts of the world at the moment, not here and America.

By: JW

JW — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 06:39:00 +0000

They’re out of their league when they want sales. Particularly in the largest auto market, the US, Volkswagen can’t get a hold in sales. Even in Australia they aren’t brilliant. They should set their sights lower first.

By: golfschwein

golfschwein — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 06:30:42 +0000

Shall we try, “warranty”? Note to self, be careful how you accuse others.