AS if there is enough people paying attention at State Farm to make this statement. Artical would be more convincing if it read. “State Farm pulls letter previously sent to warn of US Gov. of…. Yep just want some free press and try to get good will. Bunch of Kooks!
Baxter – damn man, were you thrashing your vehicles into the ground? Up keep and oil/transmission oil changes???
I’ve never had any issues with the japanese cars that I’ve owned. Just regular wear and tear. I’ve bounced my Tacoma 4X4 all over the hills and mud boggs and never have had an issue with anything breaking on me.
News outlets are reporting that the southwest toyota group pulled all their ad dollars from ABC and gave them to a competitor on the same time slots. This was to punish ABC for covering the brake and gas pedal recalls. I guess they don’t like people talking about 8 million cars being recalled.
I agree with a number of you guys in that State Farm just wants some free press. State Farm would have put this in the press in 2007 if they really did show a statistical trend.
Teddy, yes we should buy American made – which means ‘Made in the USA’ by any company that wants to invest in plants and hire Americans to build their product. Toyota and Honda probably invest more money and create more jobs for Americans in the US than the Big 3. My sister’s Yukon and my parents Mercury Grand Marquis were made in Canada, my Chrysler was made in Mexico with a Mitsubishi engine, transmission and electrical system and my nephew’s Chevy was made in Mexico. My Mercury Villager was made at the Nissan plant in Smyrna, Tennessee my ladyfriends Toyota, my neighbor’s Toyota truck and my best friends Honda are all made in the US. Toyota even subcontracts most of their engine blocks and transmission casings to the GM plants in Alabama and Mississppi. You buy a Big3 vehicle and they close a US plant and use their profits to build a plant overseas. You buy a Toyota or Honda and they invest the profit in the US to hire more Americans. So think about what you mean when you say buy American. However, GM and Ford seem to be waking up the fact that they must invest more of their money back in the US.
This really should come as no surprise. We’ve watched all of these auto companies do the same thing, find a problem and wait until it becomes a BIG problem to do anything about it.
In order for SF to identify this trend in 2007, they would habe to have data from prior year models. I thought this recall was for the 2009-2010 models.
If Hartwig’s organization is using State Farm’s policy count to determine market share, they then are way off.
Where everyone else but Farmers writes up to four vehicles on a policy, State Farm (and Farmers) write a separate policy for each vehicle they insurance.
This article is an obvious press release by State Farm to puff themselves up to the public.
The question that needs asking is why hasn’t Sate Farm made these allegations public through some other channel, or why haven’t they formed a policy within their own organization regarding Toyota? The answer is because it is Bee Ess.
Just another opportunity for the “McDonald’s” of the insurance world to swing their weight around and get free press in the process.
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AS if there is enough people paying attention at State Farm to make this statement. Artical would be more convincing if it read. “State Farm pulls letter previously sent to warn of US Gov. of…. Yep just want some free press and try to get good will. Bunch of Kooks!
Baxter – damn man, were you thrashing your vehicles into the ground? Up keep and oil/transmission oil changes???
I’ve never had any issues with the japanese cars that I’ve owned. Just regular wear and tear. I’ve bounced my Tacoma 4X4 all over the hills and mud boggs and never have had an issue with anything breaking on me.
News outlets are reporting that the southwest toyota group pulled all their ad dollars from ABC and gave them to a competitor on the same time slots. This was to punish ABC for covering the brake and gas pedal recalls. I guess they don’t like people talking about 8 million cars being recalled.
I agree with a number of you guys in that State Farm just wants some free press. State Farm would have put this in the press in 2007 if they really did show a statistical trend.
Teddy, yes we should buy American made – which means ‘Made in the USA’ by any company that wants to invest in plants and hire Americans to build their product. Toyota and Honda probably invest more money and create more jobs for Americans in the US than the Big 3. My sister’s Yukon and my parents Mercury Grand Marquis were made in Canada, my Chrysler was made in Mexico with a Mitsubishi engine, transmission and electrical system and my nephew’s Chevy was made in Mexico. My Mercury Villager was made at the Nissan plant in Smyrna, Tennessee my ladyfriends Toyota, my neighbor’s Toyota truck and my best friends Honda are all made in the US. Toyota even subcontracts most of their engine blocks and transmission casings to the GM plants in Alabama and Mississppi. You buy a Big3 vehicle and they close a US plant and use their profits to build a plant overseas. You buy a Toyota or Honda and they invest the profit in the US to hire more Americans. So think about what you mean when you say buy American. However, GM and Ford seem to be waking up the fact that they must invest more of their money back in the US.
This really should come as no surprise. We’ve watched all of these auto companies do the same thing, find a problem and wait until it becomes a BIG problem to do anything about it.
In order for SF to identify this trend in 2007, they would habe to have data from prior year models. I thought this recall was for the 2009-2010 models.
… was able to determine the problem much sooner than the bureaucrats.
Boo Hoo State Farm……………..Take a Hike.
I know someone who bought a new 2006 Toyota she got rid of after one year because of this issue. Dealer couldn’t fix problem.
If Hartwig’s organization is using State Farm’s policy count to determine market share, they then are way off.
Where everyone else but Farmers writes up to four vehicles on a policy, State Farm (and Farmers) write a separate policy for each vehicle they insurance.
This article is an obvious press release by State Farm to puff themselves up to the public.
The question that needs asking is why hasn’t Sate Farm made these allegations public through some other channel, or why haven’t they formed a policy within their own organization regarding Toyota? The answer is because it is Bee Ess.
Just another opportunity for the “McDonald’s” of the insurance world to swing their weight around and get free press in the process.