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03-03-2010, 08:07 PM
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Complaints coming up after the accelerator has been "fixed" ...
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Govt-s...01762.html?x=0
yahoo!!
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03-04-2010, 09:41 AM
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people will still buy them though..it so dumb. My gf's dad tells me all the time i need to get a more sensible car besides a truck/jeep/camaro. I need a nice import thats safe and reliable....
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03-04-2010, 02:31 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2005
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Watching a video on that now. Real classy...go Toyota 
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03-04-2010, 05:03 PM
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Originally Posted by Bcozzi71
people will still buy them though..it so dumb. My gf's dad tells me all the time i need to get a more sensible car besides a truck/jeep/camaro. I need a nice import thats safe and reliable....
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tell him sure... as soon as u feel like buying me one!
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03-05-2010, 09:31 AM
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So whats the deal with the "black box" stuff?
Did they get anything on that yet?
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03-08-2010, 07:59 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Williamstown NJ
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Another runaway Toyota...
http://www.sandiego6.com/news/local/...JTifTsxfQ.cspx
Just reported in California. Looks like this isnt ending anytime soon.
P.S. I didnt know Prius's could go 90mph. haha
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03-08-2010, 08:08 PM
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wow now thats gotta be scary... cant shut down and cant go into neutral... FAIL. luckily noone was hurt
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03-09-2010, 06:34 AM
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Saturday night I was out with my girlfriend. We were coming down the Hamburg Tpke in Wayne going towards Pompton Lakes. We see about 5 cop cars and an ambulance up ahead. We were expecting to see a multiple car accident. Turns out it's a Toyota Camry that went up the curb and crashed head on into a road sign. Haven't heard any reports on it, but you never know.
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03-09-2010, 07:23 AM
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honestly, if i had a toyota, i would splice into the TB power wire and run a relay setup to create a kill switch/circuit that would cut power to the electric throttle body at the push of a dash mounted button. So if something happened, I could be able to close the TB and still have the engine running as to be able to steer... lol
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03-09-2010, 07:57 AM
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but then they'd claim you'd voided their warranty 
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03-09-2010, 09:14 AM
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Stupid toyotas...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_runaway_prius
Is this article saying that the more or less 85hp prius has so much power that it cant slow from 94mph with the brakes fully depressed while going uphill? I find that really hard to believe. It sounds like this guy is just trying to get some money out of them.
"After the car decelerated to about 50 mph, Sikes turned off the engine and coasted to a halt."
not at 94 though? I just dont get it...
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03-09-2010, 09:25 AM
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The CHP officer told him to push down on the brakes and the e-brake as hard as he could, and this was while they were going up hill. Once the car got down to 55mph, he turned the car off and the CHP officer moved his car in front of the Prius. And brakes aren't really designed to stop a rotating wheel at WOT.
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03-09-2010, 09:45 AM
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now they are saying all the class action suits could cost toyota upwards of 3 billion
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03-09-2010, 09:47 AM
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yeah brakes get hot and fade
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03-09-2010, 10:26 AM
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the vibe brakes can stop the car at WOT, according to gm
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03-09-2010, 10:31 AM
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Silly toyotas.
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repo bigals turd gen and part it out to a loving home
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03-09-2010, 12:29 PM
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"One of the things that makes it look scary is that when the acceleration occurs, Ross' piece cuts to a close-up shot of the Toyota's tachometer spiking up to 6,000 RPMs in the course of a second—the whole car is outfitted with cameras, and it looks like they planted one right on top of the dashboard to record the RPMs. Wow! That's fast."
LOL toyotas aren't fast... sillies...
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repo bigals turd gen and part it out to a loving home
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03-09-2010, 01:47 PM
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Quote:
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"One of the things that makes it look scary is that when the acceleration occurs, Ross' piece cuts to a close-up shot of the Toyota's tachometer spiking up to 6,000 RPMs in the course of a second—the whole car is outfitted with cameras, and it looks like they planted one right on top of the dashboard to record the RPMs. Wow! That's fast."
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When tach goes from 1k to 6k RPM in 1 SECOND, that's fast! Were they using one of those fancy 11ty billion horsepower supras?
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03-09-2010, 02:04 PM
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When tach goes from 1k to 6k RPM in 1 SECOND, that's fast! Were they using one of those fancy 11ty billion horsepower supras? |
Yup. And it also only runs 11's in the quarter.
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03-09-2010, 03:02 PM
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When tach goes from 1k to 6k RPM in 1 SECOND, that's fast! Were they using one of those fancy 11ty billion horsepower supras? |
that doesn't really prove that the video was fake. But Toyota (and common sense) did prove that the guy's experiment was stupid. I am willing to bet any DBW car would have done the same thing.
I'm not sure if that Prius guy last night was faking it, but I'm sure much of it (if he wasn't faking) had to do with him not standing completely on the brakes and then they faded or pumping on them and losing vacuum.
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03-09-2010, 03:06 PM
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Originally Posted by qwikz28
that doesn't really prove that the video was fake. But Toyota (and common sense) did prove that the guy's experiment was stupid. I am willing to bet any DBW car would have done the same thing.
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ABC News spokesman Jeffrey Schneider confirmed to Gawker that the tachometer shot was indeed taken from the parked car and spliced into Ross' death ride
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If they faked one thing, how many other things could they have possibly fake. The only reason someone admitted something is because they got caught manufacturing evidence.
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03-09-2010, 03:06 PM
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Originally Posted by qwikz28
that doesn't really prove that the video was fake. But Toyota (and common sense) did prove that the guy's experiment was stupid. I am willing to bet any DBW car would have done the same thing.
I'm not sure if that Prius guy last night was faking it, but I'm sure much of it (if he wasn't faking) had to do with him not standing completely on the brakes and then they faded or pumping on them and losing vacuum.
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It certainly proves that the video was doctored heavily.
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I'm a physicist, can I chime in? if he was going 20mph, he was certainly not in first gear- likely second (benefit of the doubt here for not being in third). Auto transmission=2.047 gear ratio, 3.815 final drive ratio (again, benefit of doubt), tire circumfrence 26.2in. 20mph in second=2130 rpm (vid showed 1000, but close 'nuff). Final RPM=6000 (went to 6500, but I'm REALLY taking it easy on him). MPH @ 6000=59.9. So..... this car can do 20MPH to 60MPH in 0.7 seconds in SECOND gear!!!!! I want one!!!! The RPM sweep would ACTUALLY take much longer (7-8+sec?). Anyone who owns an automatic one care to comment?
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Seems to make sense to me. Selectively showing data and clips in a fashion that implies they point you are trying to prove is just as bad as making up evidence IMO.
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03-09-2010, 03:08 PM
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they conceded to the fact that the tach shot was done from a stop for safety, and filming reasons. Not saying it isn't fake, just that the tach shot doesn't prove the rest of it is.
As for the credibility, that I wouldn't be surprised with. Not much else is happening in the media these days
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03-09-2010, 03:18 PM
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The physicist thing doesnt make all that much sense to me. He's forgetting about how the transmission works. If the transmission shifts off vacuum, and the car was moving up an incline, and you suddenly put your foot to the floor, you can definitely get the car to shift at or close to redline in whatever gear you're in before it up shifts. And where was he getting those numbers from for the transmission gear ratio and final drive ratio? Benefit of the doubt? That makes NO sense.
yea. That doesnt make sense to me. If that dudes a physicist, then me being able to push a slinky down stairs makes me Albert frikkin Einstein.
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