{"id":194,"date":"2010-01-26T19:19:54","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T01:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/?p=194"},"modified":"2010-03-31T09:16:39","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T14:16:39","slug":"toyota-the-new-gm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/?p=194","title":{"rendered":"Toyota &#8211; The New GM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once again we all see what giant egos and greed can do.\u00a0 Toyota today halted the sale and production of eight of its cars, after recalling 2.3 million a week or so ago, for gas pedal problems.\u00a0 At first it tried to deny problems with its accelerator pedals, pushing the blame off on &#8220;faulty floor mat installation&#8221; or the like.\u00a0 Talk about egg on your face.\u00a0 Really, you should have just owned up to the problem from the beginning instead of weaving this web, Mr. Toyoda.\u00a0 And the main cause of this whole issue, in my humble opinion, is that they put QA on the back burner and just focused on taking over GM as the world&#8217;s #1 automaker.\u00a0 I was almost spot on with what GM should have done long before their problems with bailouts and bankruptcies, but instead chose to do <strong>after<\/strong> they wasted away into virtual nothingness (and I posted it all in an <a href=\"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/?p=80\">earlier blog<\/a> if you think I&#8217;m just blowing smoke).\u00a0 So, I&#8217;m thinking that I am probably not too far off here either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again we all see what giant egos and greed can do.\u00a0 Toyota today halted the sale and production of eight of its cars, after recalling 2.3 million a week or so ago, for gas pedal problems.\u00a0 At first it tried to deny problems with its accelerator pedals, pushing the blame off on &#8220;faulty floor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automotive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions\/197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}