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M_Lammerse at 10:48 PM JST - 7th February

Keep that in mind when you do not want to buy a Toyota because it is not an 'US' car, it probable is, it just has a Toyota label on it.

Many Americans don't know that Toyota is Japanese. I had a woman in Texas ask a friend of mine if there were cars in Japan.

She was driving a Corolla.

NoriPfan at 05:22 PM JST - 7th February

Back in the late '70s, I had a carbureted vehicle which did exactly what appeared to have happened here. A spring popped off the linkage and went to full throttle. I did not panic and merely put the car into neutral as suggested here. I had enough common sense to know that an engine in neutral would continue to rev but NOT APPLY IT'S ENERGY to drive the vehicle. After pulling over on to the shoulder, I popped the hood to discover the linkage was loose. Walking around the car, I finally saw a discarded hair pin which I then used to "repair" the carburetor and drove the few miles to home. I cannot say for sure that the same could have been done and was sad for the recent deaths. It appears some of you are the typical lawsuit hungry types that would always put blame on manufacturers. It was only recently that we heard of a pilot named Sully that had enough skill and brains to save his life and passengers. Too bad I can't say the same for the many other drivers who would easily put blame on Toyota. All I can say is that life is what it is.

Right on.

Branded at 06:04 PM JST - 7th February

"Back in the late '70s" I was driving a Ford Mustang that I had literally rebuilt the engine in. Good luck trying that with todays computer encased motors. Interesting anecdote but hardly in tune with the times or current problems surrounding Toyota and their unwanted accelerations- OR- brake defects. I mean just that scenerio itself is simply priceless ! Toyota is selling cars that have the possibility of acelerating into high speeds, with no way to stop ! Talk about a one-two combination ! And to think you can still find people right here at Japantoday who are willing to give these junkers a try- probably the same people who still smoke, eat at McDonalds on a daily basis, and text messages while riding their bikes- Yep, a train wreck just waiting to happen.

Hey, I have, and it's not that hard. IF any of these idiots here actually had an inkling of how a car worked (or even a better vocabulary), then they would've known that neutral means neither forward nor reverse.

This gas pedal getting stuck under the floor mat happened to a friend of mine recently, and due to her having hung around car types such as myself, she knew to throw it into neutral, hit the hazards, and pull to the breakdown lane. She realised that it was the mat, and immediately removed it and continued on her way home.

Oh, and I eat fast food on a daily basis, never eating less than 3 burgers at McD per meal myself, 5 times a day, and I eat well into the night, with my last meal before I go to sleep around 4 AM. I smoke a pack a day, drink almost nothing but coffee and espresso, too, yet I have 9.8% body fat and am probably in better health than you.

Just a few years late -- how long has Brita been on the market?

Brita has some of the worst filtering out there. Better than straight tap, but I personally use Pur filters because the water comes out tasting like... nothing. Also, the Brita filtering speed is horrendous. They might have been the first, but they've been surpassed by just about all the others.

Hmm, it deleted my "Mac user since the Mac Plus" line.

I'm just wondering how many of you posting "Get a Mac" actually got one recently since that's the "in" thing to do nowadays, or have been Mac advocates (pardon the pun, those in the know) for awhile.

<- Mac user since the Mac Plus.