Built Toyota Tough
Japan has been kicking the "big three's" collective behinds in the Auto Market for years and now the consumers in the US are speaking out. They want lower costs, higher quality and more reliability. Not very suprising, huh?
Speaking of a well built vehicles I found this amazing video of a torture test on a Toyota Diesel Pickup. It's hard to believe it took that much damage and was able to drive still. I think this is my new standard for a "heavy-duty" truck.
There's some good stuff in the article about why it costs so much to produce cars here. Did you know you spend over $1000 per car, just to cover health expenses for the workers on these American brands? Some people though are taking this information and drawing the wrong conclusions, like "we need nationalized healthcare in order to lower our production costs!". This is an awful idea because it only hides the cost of healthcare for the auto makers and it raises the cost of healthcare for everyone who is made to pay for it (though they will not directly benifit more from paying more). That is embodiment of the practice of letting other people bare the costs of your existence.
