Jonah Curses Toyota
In 2007, the then Chancellor Gordon Brown attended the launch of the new Toyota Auris:
“During his visit to Toyota’s Burnaston plant in Derbyshire on Monday, the chancellor toured the Auris assembly lines and met with workers and senior management.
Addressing an audience at the event, Mr Brown said: “I am delighted to be here in Burnaston to see for myself this successful plant and to congratulate all those involved as the UK production of the Auris begins.”"
The BBC is now reporting that “Toyota is in the process of recalling millions of cars owing to fears of a sticking accelerator pedal. Cars in the US, Europe and China are all involved in the recall but different models are affected.” What model is being recalled in the UK?
The cursed Auris of course.
Well, he’s extending the scrappage scheme because only 330,000 out of 400,000 places have been used. Hoon.
you can find him on @DowningStreet – personal tweets start ‘GB:’
http://twitter.com/SarahBrown10/status/8643099040
Funny, that looks like the Nissan Plant that Jonah is visiting.
On May 6th the scrappage scheme will be extended to NuLiebore.
We’re not gonna get any refund though…
extended to most MPs actually regardless of Party affiliation
That depends on how many dependent wankers and civil servants vote for the unelected, one-eyed Scottish moron. Never forget – around 30% of the population is made up of wankers.
What happened after you went off air last night Guido?
Did you and Tim come to fisticuffs?
Guido should select the “Foly” Follett woman as his next target…
She’s had to pay back £ 42,000…I have not seen one word of apology or resignation…….
Go for her now please….. (but I suppose there are so many of “them” now…did you imagine you would open a can of worms this bid when you started your campaign Guido ??!)
What does hse have to apologise for? She deserved every penny!
she had death threats, apparently.
sounds like something you’d find in a trashy novel……
I presume all Labour MPs regularly get death threats. If not then the fucking postie must be nicking the stamps and binning ‘em.
She was on the news last night apologising like mad.
If only apologies would conjure up 500bn quid in hard cash I’d be inclined to forgive her. But as she was one of 400 Labour MPs who supported the Maximum Imbecile in his economic destruction of the UK I’m more inclined to stick her in jail.
Read their excuses
http://mpsallowances.parliament.uk/mpslordsandoffices/hocallowances/allowances-by-mp/Repayment%20List.pdf
Not gaol. Far too costly and comfortable. If I was at all murderous I’d say that bullets are very cheap and you only need one. Or if you want to visit real suffering on her over a long period of time (like we’re facing thanks to her and her crap colleagues) then let’s think of something more appropriate. Transport to Australia?
Or if we want to get some use out of her (seeing as how she has been and still is useless at anything else) use her to test a new spacecraft?
Ideas on a postcard please to Mr G Brown.
Apologies are just words for some politicians. They have no shame. No doubt all the MPs who are “Stepping down” will bob up somewhere else in the not too distant future and it won’t be the Job Centre.
Quango? EU? Non-Exec. Directorship? Consultancy? It will be some cushy billet with a decent pay and pension package.
Do a caption competition on this pic. I’d love to know what the girl in black trousers is saying or hearing…
‘Just a couple of more steps and it will dribble on the floor’
THank you!
A bit off thread , but seriously Guido , have a look at the picture that Sky are using to headline Gordons intervention in Northern Ireland. Genuinely sent shivers down my spine. Local riot shield makers must think Christmas has come early.
McMentals Jock Junta has got to go.
Shame of it is it will be replaced by Cast Iron Daves Blue Labour.
All three partys have been to busy stuffing their pockets full of our cash to actually take care of the country.
All three partys have shown a complete dereliction of duty towards the British people & nation.
I was amazed at the list (previously shown on Guido) of where he’s given support and in each case the individual or company lost out. He really is a Jonah and perhaps that’s why this country is in such a terrible mess.
Spooky isn’t it?
without wanting to blow smoke up my own arse I spotted Brown’s Jonah like abilities within weeks of his becoming PM. Another outbreak of Foot & Mouth and a plane falling out of the sky at Heathrow as Brown arrived there within weeks of him booting Tony out of No 10.
Be afraid.
What does “blow smoke up my own arse mean”
and how is it done
Bend over and I’ll fetch my pipe
He’s such a massive tart desparate for some goodwill and kudos to rub of on him for a change Brown will endorse almost anyone and any business who looks credible. I expect there are plenty that have had Jonah come out behind them and not got into trouble, yet.
He just can’t help himself. Yet these things are terribly minor for him to be so keen to get involved with. Hasn’t he got better things to be concerning himself with? There is nothing ministerial about him let alone Prime ministerial.
He seems to think being PM is a ceremonial role a bit like being Queen. He just loves rushing off to open schools, touring factories, hanginging out with other foreign leaders. Organising ‘conferences’ and suchlike. Because, presumably, that’s what it says Prime Ministers do in his Ladybird book of being Prime Minister.
Everything he does suggests he imagines that everybody he comes into contact with will react like a greatful nation/Commonwealth/Empire/world would react to Winston Churchill, saviour of the free world. He seems to be basking in the glow of a national leader who has been dead for sixty years. And acting like he still believes Britain’s role in the world has been undiminished since the 1950s.
Wandering about with this serene grin of idiocy giving it ‘My work here is done’. Father of the fucking nation.
And he’s the only one in that ‘glow’. The rest of the civilised world is looking at him with furrowed brow giving it ‘That nutter is away with the fucking fairies’. ‘He’s not all there at all that c*nt’, ‘Who the fuck does he think he is?’ ‘What is going on in that fucked up head of his’.
You are wise jgm2. Almost as wise as what I are. I just think he is a demented dickhead who ought to have been strangled at birth.
Spot on, jgm2.
I googled the three words “Gordon Brown Jonah” and it came up with 24,200 hits the other day.
Johnny wrote:
“I expect there are plenty that have had Jonah come out behind them ”
That’s so true Johnny, so true…
I thought “Cash for Clunkers” was the MPs’ new expense rules.
No.
The car in front is in bits
The car in front can’t stop.
Thank God it IS in front then!
Amusing just how long ago this recall started and was all over the media in the US.
They finally get round to telling Britain ‘by the way some of our cars are death traps’ much, much later of course.
Like the finger-nipping prams too. Yank children are so much more precious than other ranks.
That one could be down to hurt national pride. Wasn’t the designer of the original (and safe) model a Brit?
The car in front is there because it’s accelarator is stuck to the carpet
Remember the scene in “Blues Brothers” ? Happening to a Toyota near you.
Government spending pedal is also stuck at full speed and there is no brake either. Assume that our Gord is a non-driver?
You’ve missed an example of the Curse of Jonah, Guido. In 1997 he became Chanceller of the Exchequer of the United Kingdom. Since then the economy has been completely fucked. If that’s not the Curse of Jonah I don’t know what is.
If that’s not the Curse of Jonah I don’t know what is.
Simples – it is pure NuLabor (and especially Brown’s) incompetence!
OT, but one of the evening shift window lickers, has been posting as Batty Harmanescu, which has a real ring to it !
No, no. It’s global and it all started in America. We are uniquely placed for the recession and for the recovery.
Aye. And for clarity the boom years were not simply government and consumers borrowing billions on the back of their massively appreciating house-prices and pissing it all away in the shops. Our economy is much more soundly based than that. Which is why borrowing 500bn quid over three years is the right thing to do until house prices start rising again.
[Ed! Ed - house prices will start rising again won't they? - 'cos if they don't we're fucked. There's nothing else. Oh fuck, is this microphone still on. Oh fuck. Oh fuck. Tell me we're not still broadcasting - oh fuck. We are so fucked Ed.]
We’re certainly leading the World into the double-dip. And theres 3 mllion unemployed and an unknown number of unemployable wondering when the end of the recession is happening for them.
Not to mention all last years ‘graduate’ cadre and all next years. And the year after that. We simply haven’t got enough call-centre jobs for all of them.
Green Technology is the answer that Gordon gave for this conundrum, mass employment in Agriculture, dig for victory
Double dip?
Are you sure?
That’s good news then.
If the economy took another downturn, I wasn’t certain we’d recover
Where do these fuickers get danger op of a double dip, we are not out of recession.
He’s off to grandstand in Belfast
So how long will that settlement last?
Not long is my guess
The process is already off the rails…
Since his last visit…
He is “psycholigically and emotionally incapable” of leading as pointed out by those who know him close up^in the Indy…
Terrifying that Britain is run by an obscene NUTTER….
No….
Send Blinky Balls to Northern Ireland…
Civil War would be guaranteed …
And a rather strange shaped nutter as well.
Have you noticed how weird his stature is becoming.
As crooked as a ram’s horn.
Meeting with the Irish Teashop so they can both grandstand about the temporary pre-election fudge.
Toyotas are shit.
By the way fat boy, who brought this stinking pile of shit to Britain in the first place? Thatcher’s ‘inward investment’ to replace the indigenous UK car industry?
Ha ha, dumb english tw*ts fall for it every time. Thought they were on a good one with these Jap transplants as a bridgehead to overrun the indigenous European makers. Turns out Japs are shit at car design and crap at car-making. Only good for ‘white-good’ appliance stuff. Honda? Absolute tinbox shit. Nissan? Bug-eyed shit. Volkswagen No.1. BMW/Benz/Audi best premium makes in the world. UK backs losers. UK is a loser. You deserve the psycho prick Brown.
Way-hay!! An early ‘It’s all Thatcher’s fault’.
Nick Robinson on BBC News last night found time to mention that the expenses system was brought in by Margaret Thatcher 30 years ago. Which I’m sure Labour HQ thought was jolly helpful of him.
They also pointed out that the biggest crook who was asked to pay back was a ‘government minister’ but then, for balance, thought they’d it best that they name three opposition PMs for their crookery. Although for some reason they didn’t say ‘opposition’. Fuck no. They said ‘Tory’.
So it’s ‘government’ minister but ‘Tory’ (not ‘opposition’) MPs. See how that works.
I see what you did there BBC.
On Shite Live last night, TORY MP, Bernard Jenkin mentioned as one of the top three troughers, another TORY MP and Barbara Follett, former minister and MP for Brainless South. Not a mention of her being a Labour cow and, although the worst offender, the last mentioned.
It’s the right thing to do.
Toenails is shocking.
It cannot go on – his cheer leading for Labour is a joke around here.
If he were on side with the Tories he would have been out by now.
Indeed! I noticed that also – same old same old etc.
No no dear boy “BMW/Benz/Audi” driven by Mafia bosses, kebab shop owners, despots and drug dealers.
I prefer a Jaaag myself.
Indeed, Sir Trev. I have five bloody Jags and every time I take a German car owner out for a spin, don’t you know, they start trading in their soulless Teutonic metal for a Big Cat. Yes.
yeah! VW #1!! Woo-hoo!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/caradvice/honestjohn/7053551/VW-Golf-ABS-failure.html
Don’t agree with everything you say because I well remember Longbridge and they brought their demise on themselves (I also knew Maggie Thatcher would be blamed somewhere in this thread).
Up to recently Toyota have been listed as good reliable cars, however I do agree with you about the German makes. You only have to sit in a BMW, Benz or Audi to realise they are in a different league to ‘ordinary’ cars. For instance, the build quality alone of an Audi has to be at the very top.
Let’s be honest for a minute, the Europeans, Germans(including wider German-speaking/cultural parts of Europe) in particular, were always best at making things, with autos as one of their stand-outs. They were smashed in WWII and have taken almost till now to get back to where they were just before WWII, i.e., pre-eminent in Europe and set to to become world number one.
The Japs were really simply appliance makers – Toyota, loom makers – with Honda the only really Jap ‘car’ company. They took American quality control techniques after WWII and during occupation and modified them into lean production. But they never were real car or at base engineering-driven companies, with the exception of Honda initially, during the founder’s lifetime.
Worse, shills like Womack(‘The Machine that Changed the World’, Womack, Roos and Jones, 1989 book) nearly singlehandedly destroyed Germany’s premium car-making tradition by humiliating them in flawed ‘benchmarking’ studies, showing, supposedly, Toyota to be way ahead of Daimler-Benz and so on. Daimler almost fell as a result, losing its self-confidence and trying to ape the Toyota Production System. Just before it was too late Daimler realised Toyota’s TPS and Kaizen were a false god, as it is intrinsic product desire, real depth of product quality and engineering excellence that sells premium price cars.
Toyota deserves to fail. It has outlasted its usefulness. Its limitation of neverending cost reduction, kaizen, has been exposed. Honda is weak, as it has lost its founder’s original engineering spirit and Nissan is really a subsidiary of Renault anyway. UK’s experiment with seeking in replacement foreign makers has failed. Toyota was cutting jobs in UK before this pedal fiasco anyway. Its engine assembly operation in Deeside will be eventually all be moved to its newer engine assembly facility in Poland(Silesia – German historical traditions again). Honda’s UK ops are in a terrible mess, with the current Civic almost unsaleable. Nissan has bet the farm on electric vehicles – from Renault’s direction – which through the now AGW scam exposure will also fail. If it wasn’t for the Germans investment in UK through BMW MINI at Oxford, Hams Hall, Rolls Royce and VW at Bentley the UK car industry would be almost nil within a few years.
Mercantilism in spades, wouldn’t you say.
LOL, a friend of mine says the same about Audi`s. I had to hide a smirk when he told me it had cost him the best part of £2,500 to replace the fuel pump on his estate car.
I did not have the heart to tell him that to add insult to injury, that the car he so lovingly and expensively maintained, belonged to the DVLA not him, he was merely the KEEPER, of their property.
I am Sick: Envy is a terrible thing.
Why do you feel the need to tell John Terry that you are snide and treacherous? : VERY strange behaviour
Rubbish.
An Audi fuel pump costs a couple of hundred quid and should only take an hour or so to fit.
I think the garage included a new pisstake valve when they fixed your mates car.
The problem with Audis, BMs and Mercs, JT, is that our German cousins CAN”T come up with ride quality to equal that of a Jag. Fact.
Hmm. VW Number 1.
Read this before purchasing..
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/caradvice/honestjohn/7053551/VW-Golf-ABS-failure.html
Red Robbo you are wrong!!!
Until 1983 I had mini’s, 1100′s, an Escort and God forbid a Renault – all were rubbish. Mini’s & 1100′s died because of subframe corrosion, the Escort would not start when damp – still same with Ford’s today, and the Renault cost a fortune to maintain – and bits dropped off it. In 1983 I bought my first Toyota – what a difference – a car that worked every time you turned the key, it did not break down, it was cheap to run – bit of a clue why they’ve become the world’s No 1 car maker.
For 27 years I and my wife have had Toyotas. Now I drive a Landcruiser because I hate the green eco fascists – and it is a car that’s perfectly suited to our third world roads. Not once have I had to have ANYTHING done under warranty, not one recall, nothing more major than new brake pads.
I’ve never had a VW or other German make but friends have Mercs and are glad they get roadside recovery.
You speak as you find – for me there is only one value for money make – that’s a TOYOTA
I had a Merc a few years ago – they are overratted and not very well built for the money. Hideously expensive to run.
They only impress people who are unlikely to ever own one.
Like you.
Well, well. I live in Germany and one of my neighbours blew one of his recently matured insurance policies on a sooper-dooper brand spanking new Merc. In the months that followed it spent more time in the workshop than on the road, being adjusted, modified, calibrated, up-dated and having diverse components replaced.
Suffice to say, BEFORE the first year was up the dealer took that particular car back and gave him another one – also brand spanking new. So far it looks like the second one was put together on a Tuesday, or possibly on a Wednesday – without a doubt his first one was a “just before knocking-off time on Friday” model.
Little known fact. When Gordon became PM he traded in his Toyota for a Jag.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/ethicallivingblog/2009/apr/21/brown-prius-car-jaguar
Only one?
Oh go and lick your Mock Tudor beams Prezza……….
and BTW have you paid us back for that theft ?:
Gordon Brown is the best qualified to lead the country, he drives ajag like me.
Now get that bloody electric hairdryer pleb-mobile out of the way.
Those Indian cars aren’t very reliable either you know, about the same as Mercs and BMs. But then he has a government chauffeur to wheel it away when it goes wrong.
I fully believe in the curse, when my wife had to meet him when he visited her hospital I scrubbed her hand when she came home. Seems to have worked. (the trust meanwhile has run into financial difficulties and staff moral is hardly sparkling)
But if this is a curse it is a very delayed one. Not a very good example.
Of course brown is British PM, which is why we seem cursed as a nation at the moment
You didn’t let her touch any of your ‘bits’ with it, did you?. Scrubbing won’t work; amputation might.
Nothing will help once the Brown gangrene has set in.
I was forced to take a day off from work to appear for a minor traffic summons. I grew increasingly restless as I waited hour after endless hour for my case to be heard.
When my name was called late in the afternoon, I stood before the judge, only to hear that court would be adjourned for the next day and I would have to return then.
“What for?” I snapped at the judge.
His honour, equally irked by a tedious day and the sharp query roared, “Twenty pounds contempt of court. That’s why!”
Then, noticing me checking my wallet, the judge relented. “That’s all right. You don’t have to pay now.”
I replied, “I’m just seeing if I have enough for two more words.”
Nice one!
Was Harriet in the same court, or had she told the magistrates, “you know where to get me”
Unfortunately the Chancellor is coming today. We will give him a quick tour, so if you all could follow behind, four abreast as though we are marching.
We can’t blame Brown for this! Oh, wait… yes we can! There’s more fun, that way.
He specifically asked about the new fangled accelerator pedal thingy with the magnet and sensor whatsit.
Well, that’s that then! Case proved!
How hilarious are you Guido you Hoon.
One day someone visited somewhere.
3 years later something goes wrong with something made at the place someone visited.
Because I have a pathological hatred (bordering on odd homosexual attraction I think) of that person it must be his fault.
Most of your stuff is good until you get distracted by your ZANU-Liebour Gordo McJock Broon obsession
It was a slow burn effect visit. If Labour and the BBC can still blame the tories for everything that is wrong in the world, lets use some poetic licence to blame Mcb for this one (and several other cursed visits)!
fuck off
Once an unknown Jew hippy said
“love one and other, be kind and the world will be a happy place”
1.000 odd years later the followers of that hippy, got the British Empire to abolish slavey. They then got them to send their navy and marines around the world to enforce that. Nuff said ?
“love one and other, be kind and the world will be a happy place”
widely mocked, but if we all did that we’d be in a much better place
We don’t care about that if we can shriek COMMUNIST!! or HIPPY!! at you.
Such subversive talk is deeply suspect round these parts.
33. The operation to remove your sense of humour was a total success. Brown’s attempts to remove the sense of humour of the rest of the country is also working.
Oops. Replace “is” with this “are”.
There is a simple reason for that: Gordon Brown is a prick whom Guido (and most right-thinking people) rightly despise.
That’ll be the same as Toenails blaming the Tories 30 years on.
And this very morning McTwat is off to Ulster to put the mockers on the deal between SF and the DUP.
Bearing in mind they only got the deal after he had gone home last week, having successfully missed PMQs, it is a matter of total amazement that they even thinking about letting him back into the discussions…
Did Jonah wish the Presbyterian Mutual Society good luck as it has not had any and PR wants the British taxpayer to pay for the shortfall.
Guido have you noticed that the N Ireland power sharing problems now seem to be resolved once the mentalist is out of the way? You can imagine the scene ” F**k this, lets not come to an agreement, as that tw** Brown will only claim the credit anyway.”
He truly is the Damien of our times. What does the barber see tattooed on the top of his head?
The barber has seen something, but can’t read the handwriting.
I noticed that many here said the peace talks were irreperably doomed because Bruin went there so the narrative naturally has to change now that they are back on track
it will of course be exactly the same for Dave when he gets in for those too slow witted to have realised (though some say it’s already happening with the posters, polling etc.)
once the public turns against you, and they always do, no matter what you do it can be spun into a negative narrative
Major suffered this for years as his Government juddered to a messy halt via his small majority
“What does the barber see tattooed on the top of his head?”
C’NUT?
Insert stake/bullet here?
Vacant- Low Rental
It says: “This skull is empty. To obtain brain please call…”
made in USSR?
“I got this tattoo becuase it was The Right Thing To Do”..?
Sell By Date: 5th May 2010
To Let or is that Toilet?
keep away from humans
I told you months ago that this would all happen…
We now have My Horse as Squeaker…(though he is smaller)
A mad imbecile as Prime Minister…
A totally corrupted House of Commons and House of Lords…
A bankrupted country…
A bunch of social misfits, perverts and buggerers running the Ministries…
It could not be more Caligulan if you tried…thanks Grodon…
A vicious, mentally unbalanced imbecile as PM
Don’t forget the Praetorian Prefect, Little Boots’ sinister eminence grise. I find it hard to name a candidate for that though.
Can’t wait ’till you lot get back into power, he he he, ha ha ha, HO HO HO !!!!
OT
Bob Crow getting in a bit of light practise with Boris before going for the full 70′s revival after Cameron gets in.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8499667.stm
Warning of disruption, RMT leader Bob Crow said: “Our members are rock solid in their support for this strike and in their determination to defend their jobs and working conditions.
This toyota feeding frenzy is absurd. I’d suggest that a toyota facing recall after 50,000 miles is still a better and safer car than any citroen straight off the assembly line.
So one in a hundred thousand have a sticking throttle, at some point? My mini would regularly bounce out of gear, or sometimes the choke would jam locked on. Cars are not perfect, and owners shouldn’t expect them to be. I like Toyotas. Had Mitzes too, now in a hyundai – they all blow european cars out of the water. BMW reliability? Don’t make me laugh. Audi quality? Not in this world. VW? When they were aircooled, maybe. Okay they still broke but you could fix 9/10 niggles with a lump hammer…
Silly media panic – dangerous dogs all over again…
No problem then? Unless of course you’re the poor sod who dies because of the faults.
Oh I’ve only just read your comments about German cars. Even saying that Audi doesn’t have excellent build quality? I suggest you read all the motoring press you can because you are obviously way out of touch.
You’re kidding right? Try googling “audi turbo failure”. The motoring press look at *new* cars, perfectly prepared new cars. I worked on bike mags for years chum – I know how it works. Slag their vehicles, watch your advertising revenue crash. If you want honest reviews look at parkers owners reviews, or Honest John, not the manufacturer ad-supported motoring press.
You are missing the point of this thread. Toyota were okay until the Scottish mong visited them and then it was all downhill. I’d stick to bikes if I were you, you know very little about cars. And yes I have read many owners reviews in Parkers and read Honest John etc. Just because Audi had a turbo problem doesn’t divert from the FACT that they are one of the top build quality cars along with BMW and Mercs.
German cars beat the Japs hands down in almost every way.
That’s not all. I have a Bosch Microwave (built in type) that breaks a minute bracket that holds the door catch spring on at about 4 yearly intervals. It’s a crap piece of design. The catches fail and the thing won’t microwave. So it’s a new door at about 125 fitted, which is cheaper than a new built in microwave.
The reason the catch failes is that the bracket is a moulded plastic finger that is moulded with the whole door panel. Everytime you open or close the door the bracket flexes very slightly until eventually it fatigues and breaks off.
Why shoud we tolerate such shit engineering?
Also it’s very ungreen (if you care about such things) as making stuff last is what’s best for greenery (if you a flying fuck about such things).
Too true – every mag slagged off my wee Suzukii Jeep.
Yet on Parkers etc, all the owners give it 4-5 stars.
Even better ratings after the snow I would imagine.
And Toyota deserve all they get – they took over Daihatsu and killed off the Fourtrack because no-one wanted their overpriced 4X4s.
not just with cars but with almost every product there is usually some form of review media, be it TV, magazine or whatever incestuously close to the manufacturers
not just ad revenue but as stated the free product is an incentive and it also stretches to promotional jollies and freebies of all sorts from the corporations doing the flogging
you have to look hard to find a reviewing media not hopelessly in the pocket of those they are meant to be scrutinising
German cars beat the Japs hands down in almost every way.
You are as Mental ad Broon if you really believe that.
Yes – Audi does have excellent build quality, but shit ride.
It started in America. GM and Ford need to knock-out the competition a bit.
GM and Ford can’t sell enough cars to be able to spot a 1 in 100,000, once in a lifetime electrical glitch like that.
Because GM and ford cars are shit. Just like the ones in the UK.
Ford aren’t at all shit. I have a ’96 Mondeo estate that’s done 170,000 miles without a single problem other than normal wear and tear and it’s still going like a train. Not a UK train, obviously.
Its diesel then.
Nope 2.0L petrol
Frank – agreed. Had Toyotas for 27 years – not a thing has gone wrong with them – nothing done under warranty on nine different vehicles!! First recall for Toyota I can remember. I bet other manufacturers wished they were in that position.
On the up-side Toyota will be forced to cut prices to shift cars. If any yank (or anybody else for that matter) buys a GM or Ford in lieu of a Toyota just because of this recall then they deserve everything that’s coming to them.
By the way Frank. Do you think I can fix the climate control in my Audi with a lump-hammer. The fucking fans intermittent.
Probably your final stage unit resistor. Easy fix. Get the part off ebay.
Cheers. Never heard of such a thing but Google is a wonderful thing. It certainly seems to match the symptoms. C*nts at AUDI garage told me it was working (when it was working – despite me saying yeah – it’s working NOW but it’s intermittent) and then blamed a seized fan when it wasn’t working (NO you c*nts – it was working on the way over here).
Fucking C*NTS.
So you’re the Huhne who bought the Hyundai. The Koreans have almost total import block on European-produced cars, yet have total access to European markets – Check ACEA to see the details. Twats like you revel in the ‘value for money’ of these Asian shitboxes. Think on moron, European makers will and are failing due to below-cost dumping by Hyundai(Kia), GM Daewoo…, and Europeans will end up having to work in Mcjobs instead of decent, skilled work.
The plan by GM to cut jobs and capacity from Vauxhall/Opel is actually a plan to effectively shut down GM Europe, that is sack its 50,000 direct workers, and have production sourced from GM Daewoo in Korea, and badged as ‘Chevy’. The Europeans are being screwed by arsehole, oit of control greed-driven corporates and moron arsehole buyers in UK, looking for ‘value’.
The moron, arsehole buyers in the UK are looking for ‘value’ in everything except the insane price of their insanely over-valued piece-of-shit house. And this imbecile government has crashed the entire economy by pandering to their idiocy instead of being ‘prudent’ and ‘taking the tough choices’.
So you’re the Huhne who bought the Hyundai.
A Santa Fe, and there’s only one other car on the market that does the same job in the same way – the Volvo XC90 – and it’s simply not as good. Plus it’s half as much again…
If another european manufacuturer produced a reliable 7 seat 4X4, I’d have looked at it.
This is how markets work – consumer choice.
Right of course, but not as funny as a “Car in Front” joke.
I’ve seen a Citroen C5 with the engine still running with the key taken out and the doors locked. You could only stop the engine by stalling it deliberately. Was solved by “clearing the ECU”.
I had a VW that decided to turn the engine off as you were driving along the motorway.
Anyone believe the software in any car ECU is bug free? Think again.
French cars are always bottom of the reliability charts, though.
As god is my witness, I will never own or travel in another French car.
No such thing as a French car. Or British. Or German.
They are a compendium of parts from different countries.
At one point, the most British vehicle you could buy was a Volvo bus.
2CVs are cool though… And renault 4s. I like tatty cheap lightweight cars. Like my women.
Wot about me Frank? I might be tatty and cheap, but I ain’t no lightweight!
In all fairness to Fench cars, once the loose bits have dropped off, what is left is pretty reliable.
With all these electro-gizmos going expensively wrong, the latest cars are now the equivalent of a Tesco plastic shopping bag – fit for dumping once they are 4 years-old.
Better getting a late 80′s/early 90′s scrumper and spending your loot on restoration – at least it will be worth more in the long run.
Spot an about Froggy cars – unreliable and expensive for routine maintainance
FF, like you, I can’t understand the fuss. All cars, with or without an ECU, have the potential to do this. I had a Marina that had a daily requirement for a toe underneath the accelerator pedal to slow it down. If it happens in any car, just pull over as soon as is safe, by slipping the clutch a bit if neccessary, and switch off the engine. Don’t worry about the engine, modern cars will quite happily rev on the limiter for hours.
A few years back I was asked to show the then Reich Chancellor Jonah round weld shop at the Toyota plant at Burnaston, refusing on the grounds that i wasn’t allowed to bring firearms onto the premises i was told my negativity would reflect on my annual appraisal.
It did & cost me £300. p.a as it was downgraded.
A fucking good investment if you ask me.
Lets start a collection, this guy is a victim, is there not a support group for standing up to the great leader? And O/T where has the 50k fund with no name story gone? Buried and white washed out of the news!!!
Gone to the great ‘memory hole’ in the basement of Broadcasting House.
The BBC sends all its most ‘difficult’ stories there.
The ones about Labour and about ‘Climate Change’ and Europe.
They all disappear down the ‘memory hole’ and become ‘un-news’
Thank fuck the car in front is a Toyota.
Better than “Oh fuck, the car behind is a Toyota”
The car in front is a Toyota, don’t overtake or it will be behind you.
Vorsprung durch Technik – NOT.
It’s time for Jonah to face a euthanasia tribunal.
The wife was expecting a brand new VW Golf for her birthday, but instead i bought her a second hand Toyota.
She went up the wall.
nice one.
What, up the wall in the Toyota when the brakes failed/throttle stuck open?
That’s the one she is the soon to be ex.
This a whole step in curse power. It’s Global. ‘I’ve saved the world’ is clearly now ‘I’ve cursed the world’!
There was an engineer at Toyota some years ago – Shigeo Shingo. He was a leading light in the development of the poka-yoke system of mistake-proofing. They clearly hadn’t reckoned with Jonah-san.
He was known as Pokemon (geddit?)
How do you get Gordon Brown into a Toyota?
You Pokemon.
I’ve just read an article from Toyota magazine. All their new cars are to have a hole in the floor below the brake pedal – just in case.
Extras for Toyota Cars:
Cd Player
Sat Nav
Leather upholstery
Air conditioning
Ejector seat
Butt plug.
The toyota pedal is based on the Gordon Brown fiscal policy model – get your borrowing foot to the floor and keep it there until the economy is finally brought to a halt by an IMF brick wall.
+++Applause+++
Dave has said that Ugandan homosexuals should be offered asylum in Britain.
!0% were gay yesterday, !00% today? Or is the Border Agency going to devise
a failpoof ( sic ) yes ( sick) test?
FFS Dave even the woolliest Liberal wouldn’t come up with this one.
FFS Dave even the woolliest Liberal wouldn’t come up with this one
you have answered your own point
Let them all come to the UK and spread their Aids infection.
Toyota Aygo – because I can’t stop.
Thoughts on the strategic defence review- well worth a glance!
http://ddtaylor88.wordpress.com/2010/02/05/speculative-foresight-is-no-way-to-conduct-a-defence-review/
Harridan says that if you dare to pick on me I can play four cards:-
1. RACIST
2.ISLAMOPHOBIC
3.SEXIST
4.AGEIST
So just don’t dare….
Any news yet of the piggin’ ‘criminal’ troughers?
Do you take it up the dirtbox on the first date luv?
CPS about to make their announcements on prosecutions – please make our day!
O/T
CPS Politicos conference about to start, BBCN24 and Sky News covering live
One minute to go
Assumes the brace position…………..
Please let there be a god………….
Gets out large bucket of butterkist
30 seconds to go
Here goes…..
Yeah! 4 charged
ELLIOTT MORLEY !!!
Take him down.
DAVID CHAYTOR !!!!!
Take him down.
And Chator – WOO HOO!!!!!
Gordon has no accelerator. Not sure about the reverse gear
DEVINE! It gets better and better – Break out the bolly
Take him down.
Uddin?
SSSSHHHHH !!!!
>>>>>>>breaking news<<<<<<<
CPS to prosecute Chayter, Morley, Devine, Lord Hanningfield (Got to have a Tory)
Udin fkg Ashun is let off shock
I'm calling for the death penalty!
Excellent! Some faith restored
Surprise, surprise – Uddin still under investigation! Racist card yet again.
I suspect she’s still ‘under investigation’ because they’ve been unable to contact her to quiz her up.
She’ll be in her “main” residence, she’s always there, ask the neighbours.
I think they’ll come back for Uddin later – what a great day!
perhaps gordoom was flicking bogies randomly
Use them as Crash Test Dummies at Toyota, bugger the expense of trials.
Didn’t Gordon also sell gold to buy euros to “balance our assets”, look what he’s doing to the poor old euro whilst gold……….?
You can’t blame Gordon for everything. One would have thought that Toyota’s seamles quality control measure would have included in the list :
No. 99: Try the fucking brakes.
Cars! Push him under a bus.
At least (at last?) Gordon has done something useful – he’s spawned a new range of Anyone But Gordon Brown goods – see ABGB.co.uk
But there’s a serious point to all this Gordon bashing – the Labour Party needs more evidence that he has to go. It’s obvious to all of us but until THEY see every car in Westminster with an Anyone But Gordon Brown sticker on the back they’ll not take the plunge.
Time for people power to take over.
ABGB.co.uk