Why do people buy a 2010 STi instead of a 2004 Corvette ZO6 or a 2006Base Corvette?

Hachiroku ãƒ�ãƒ�ãƒ*ク wrote:
> You can bet that in three years or less, Toyota will be the car to own,
> and they will probably be lower in price than others.
>
> The Toyoda family is not going to let this go by the boards. One thing the
> Japanese do that caucasians don't is "save face", and Toyota has a LOT of
> face saving to do!
>
> Within three years, they will be the best cars on Earth.
>
> And considering a couple hiccups from Honda, don't expect them to be too
> far behind...


Maybe, maybe not, the stories you heard about Toyota's problems seemed
astonishingly similar to stories you normally hear about American car
companies, namely compromising quality to save on costs. That's a drug
that car companies have a lot of trouble detoxing from. Once you start
buying the part that's 5% lower cost, which adds 10% to your profit
margin, you'll keep taking that drug.

Face saving is for a Japan of the 19th century.

Yousuf Khan

Hachiroku ãƒ�ãƒ�ãƒ*ク wrote:
> On Fri, 02 Apr 2010 12:11:46 -0400, Yousuf Khan wrote:
>
>> weelliott wrote:
>>> I'm not a prestige kind of guy. I don't care what other people think
>>> about what I drive. As evidence, I drive a baseline stock 12 year old
>>> legacy with hubcaps. No glamour. But the performance that that car
>>> offers really is class leading. It beat the GTI, Civic si, and
>>> MazdaSpeed 3 in a comparison test. It was the attitude that it just
>>> wasn't cool or probably wouldn't be reliable that killed its sales. Kind
>>> of a shame.
>> The sense of shame in owning an American car ironically seems to be an
>> uniquely American psychosis. Canadians have no such problems. Besides my
>> Subaru, my other car is a Pontiac Grand Prix. American cars are easy to
>> find parts for relatively cheaply. No car in existence is ever going to go
>> without a part change somewhere along the way.
>>
>> And I would think the recent Toyota problems have well and truly put to
>> the grave all pretensions about Japanese car's perceived superior quality.
>>
>> Yousuf Khan
>
> You can bet that in three years or less, Toyota will be the car to own,
> and they will probably be lower in price than others.
>
> The Toyoda family is not going to let this go by the boards. One thing the
> Japanese do that caucasians don't is "save face", and Toyota has a LOT of
> face saving to do!
>
> Within three years, they will be the best cars on Earth.
>
> And considering a couple hiccups from Honda, don't expect them to be too
> far behind...
>
>
>
One of the contributing factors to Toyota's woes has been their
imitation of the GM business model.

In search of a larger market, Toyota moved from a fairly simple
operation with a handful of car models to a multi-branded enterprise
with many badge cars. Now with three brands (Lexus, Toyota and Scion),
management and logistics are more complicated than before. Four years
ago, Toyota was beginning to look much like GM.

Even though there's obvious commonality between Lexus and Toyota models,
the company has been challenged in maintaining the Lexus image during
the Q.A. issues with the Camry.

As GM, Ford and Chrysler have dumped badging, management focus seems to
have improved. -- pj

On Mar 31, 4:54*am, Sal > wrote:
> I mean I HATE Corvettes and I would buy a 2004 ZO6 or a 2006 base
> corvette before I'd buy a 2010 STI

Because I don't want a Sexualliy Transmitted Infection