Toyota witch hunt. What is the motive?

money is the motive.american cars were not selling so they had to find the "witch".funny but when people were dying in ford crown victoria's there was no congressional investigation and that dragged out for years before there was a recall.same thing with the 80's model mercury cougar/ford thunderbird, they had a faulty ignition switch that could catch fire.the biggest case on that problem was a woman was convicted of murdering her mother because she was in a car accident and when she went to get help the car caught fire and her mother burned to death.it was overturned on appeal and new evidence.there was never a recall for that problem

The question is not a valid question because it is based on faulty presumptions. First, Toyota is going to shut down its only union plant in California where they are represented by the UAW making about the same amount of money. These are not artificially inflated wages. It's a median income that people should make doing very hard work and skilled work. You can't hired unskilled labor off the streets and expect to make a good car. It does not work that way. Toyota is closing their only union plant to lower wages at their other plants. This is not acceptable as 70% of our economy is consumer spending. Their other plants need to be unionized to protect workers wages. And GM is not controlled by the government. The CEO and the executive board still makes the decisions. The only thing they got from the government was a bailout like Chrysler did in the 80s. The government is going after Toyota, and rightfully so, as they have covered up defect after defect. They tried to cover up info related to rollovers in their trucks and now, they are trying to cover up this unintended acceleration issue. If it weren't for the high profile crash of the police officer in the Camry in CA, Toyota might still be covering up the issue trying to blame it on driver error.

US government owns GM and part of Chrysler. I don't see why it would confuse anyone. Isn't it ironic that shortly after all the announcement that the domestic brands were offering extra cash to Toyota owners to trade in their cars? Those companies are unable to do anything quickly. I bet it was in the pipeline for months. It's also ironic that the only parts affected were made in the US. Then the Prius episodes that were blasted repeatedly throughout the media, both turned out to be bogus. That wasn't reported widely though.

I have owned 4 Toyota's, and will buy another one. I don't doubt there have been problems with the cars. Every car has problems. Who can forget the burning Chevy pickups, or the Ford Pinto, or the Ford Explorer? I survived a high speed T-bone crash in my Camry (about 50 mph), and walked away from it. You know it was a Toyota, because my car drove home under it's own steam. Couldn't say that for the other car:) Who tries to pull a u-turn in a 65 mph speed zone, without looking????

the motive is the government trying to prove that they did something about it so now that the recalls are in place costing toyota millions to fix the problem our wonderful government will slap them while they are down with big fines and within a year we will have some new redundant expensive fix forced by the government onto all new cars that we will have to pay for if we buy a new car. all to prove that the government protected you from the company. go back and look at the ford and firestone recalls for tire failure and you find that after all the fines and lawsuits were paid and the tires replaced and cars fixed. we got a electronic tire pressure monitering system on all new cars at more than a thousand dollars per car plus increaseing the repair and maintaince costs of owning the vehicle.

Chysler and GM are not selling cars.

I have a friend who works at a Auto Sales comp. She said they use to sell 200 cars a month, now they sell about 8 cars a month.

Want us to buy a Government Motors vehicle.

Sorry, Mr. President, will continue to drive my old Ford pickup truck.

Intimation , Obama is trying to put teeth on his government to use against private companies

I would compare it to a gang that is marking their territory

Yes Obama is THAT petty

the falsehood this is not helping america, toyota didn't take any of our bailouts. Now that japan owns most of our debt, it's a pretty damn stupid move....again.

Safety for the American consumer.