toyota has just set in India but after the floods in my city (bombay) i would not recommend anyone to buy a toyota car coz the cars they make for india are of bad quality and to make it worse they are not able to service these cars back to being worty of driving. My car is still lying with them after 5 months and they havent yet decided whts wrong with it. Very bad choice toyota !!

kumar

(India)

Koreans are very smart and very dedicated in their works ( i.e Koreans clone first dog in the world, everyone said i cant take this anymore.. i quit yet the koreans dedicated, achieved mount everest of cloning)

Korean cars will come on top of Japanese cars in the near future within year 2010-2015 for sure.

For you Korean haters, it will be harder and harder to hate on Korean cars or anything every year muhaha

its like USA asking China to let them into their military plant and let China visit their pentagon…etc

well, theres an exchg of infomation aint there….LOL

u said he was a driving instructor haha

unless that driving school only have one car and everyone share the same car,wakkakka

holy crap or do u mean km

if in km 280 000 km divided by 6

that means 1 month 40000km

and that means 1333.3km/day that means he have to service car after one day he get liao

hahhahahha and one day have to pump at least 3 times oil

thats a very ridicoulous statement

customer loyalty is one toyota after another

or one honda after another

but not one proton after another hehe

if vios and advanza is everywhere in m'sia, will that also mean that the cars have its royalty or goodwill among the buyer? which also mean better performance compare to other, am i right? of coz, don't pull POTONG in, that special case. ^_^

Engine ability to widstand abuse?

Fuel Consumption?

I should say the major concern still are there, cost versus performance, Toyota, although I dont like it too much as well, have been delivering their cars with good value for their money, not too good, not super fast cars with instant accerelation, not build to last to like tahan lasak, but powerful enough to drive and good enough durability. Ultimately it is how they manage to strike a balance between cost versus performance so well, that the other car maker couldn't match.

Though the car is little boring, (Vios and Advanza everywhere in M'sia now >_

That makes the claim even incredible…. har har har

Jared

I've been quite perplexed at the numbers being quoted. The only way you can do 248k miles in 6 months is to drive non-stop everyday at a distance of 92.4 kilometers every hour, 24 hours a day for 6 months.

Even if you were to drive on a highway at 110kmh steady, you still need to stop for food and toilet breaks.

I don't get the figures here.

From what u wrote, I gather that you live in the US coz Yaris is not available here in Malaysia. Your claim that Hyundai’s are the most robust engines in the world need to be taken with a pinch of salt. First, 248,000 miles in 6 months is nothing to call home about. Before going into mass production, car manufacturers will usually subject their engines to rough testing and in certain instances exceeds 1,000,000 miles. Could the same car clock another 250,000 miles in the next FIVE years and still work and look as fresh? I doubt it. Carbon deposits and wear and tear will normally accumulate over TIME, not Mileage. I wager my one month salary that 80% of brand new cars will achieve the same feat (i.e. 248K miles in 6 months).

Jared

Not sure about the tactics though. Kinda stupid way.

Hyundai also need to protect their competitive advantage and knowing that Toyota will beat them without blinking, inviting them to see the Korean facilities may lead to consequences that would leave Hyundai at a disadvantage.

I think this is the first attempt between two rivals, are there any similar visit exchange initiations amongst the Japanese and Korean companies? I think not.

Business….exchange……technical ………Pui…..all talks about HOW TO GAIN more MONEY!!

I guess Hyundai (kai) might Calculated they had no advantages at all, therefore decided to REJECT toyota. If WIN WIN occurred I don't think Korean will REJECT it. Lu Ingat saya (Korean) BOROH kah?

Also, the reason Toyota might want to do this is because they don't want to lose out in terms of tech. We do know that toyota cars have started becoming boring hasn't it? Oh wait, they have always been..=P I guess toyota just lack that X factor, something you get from a BMW, because of social perceptions built from way back.

Hyundai(Kia) are no longer small time players .. and the company is growing faster than even the mighty Toyota.

basically any car build by them in the last decade is crap. no so true anymore.

Hyundai and Kia stopped using Japanese engines roughly in the mid to end 1990s.

From a business point of view, it may not be nice to let a rival to view your operations for their own benefit even if they are allowed to do vice-versa. Plus, doens't Toyota sound desparate by sending out a kind of trade-off invite instead of a request letter?