Is it possible Toyota could really be spending 1 million dollars per hour on improving safety?

Third of Five · 19 Jul 2010, 05:24 am

As they claim in this commercial?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TkL5xydbd0

Come on, is that even feasibly possible? Thats 24 million a day, 168 million a week, 672 million a month, over 8 billion a year!

rani_z2001 · 19 Jul 2010, 05:35 am

i think this figure includes the cost of recalling all these vehicles due to safety problems, just yesterday they recalled and stopped selling the Lexus LS in the USA for steering problems.

Mercedes Benz is currently holding the record for the most spending company on safety and development, they have clocked a $7.8 a day in september 2008 developing the new E class.

Fair tax means jobs stay in USA! · 19 Jul 2010, 05:45 am

Oh but you are wrong, they said "OVER" 1 million an hour.......

Yea they are probably doing it with ANOTHER Japanese government bailout plan.........."According to reports in Japan's local media, Toyota is in talks to borrow a little over $2 billion from the state-backed Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC)" Toyota is also going broke it seems..... "Toyota, which expects to lose $3.9 billion this year"........""FUNDS FROM JAPAN'S FOREIGN EXCHANGE RESERVES

With the Japanese auto industry ailing, chances are JBIC will need an injection of more bailout funds soon."

Source:http://www.businessweek.com/globalbi...033_969062.htm

They also said "over the past 50 years" they haven't even been in America for 50 years lol they came here first in 1965 (45 years ago) with the Corona model that failed miserably and was recalled in 1971 and they didn't come back again until the early 70s.

Feel free to stick around in the Toyota, Lexus and Scion sections.