Hachiroku wrote:
> "John Horner" <jthorner@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:7BdAg.7811$oz.4764@trnddc07...

> > An interesting take. I can't see Toyota going all the way to the altar
> > with GM though. What would Toyota get out of it? Also, Toyota has a long
> > history of being an independent company in mind and action. Nissan, on the
> > other hand, started out as a company which was always in bed with at least
> > one foreign company and continues that pattern today.

> GM/Toyota have been manufacturing cars for a LONG time as
> NUMMI, mostly in California. They gave us some of the worst
> Toyotas ever, namely the Nova (~85-87) and the Prizm.

If those were some of the worst Toyotas ever, then Toyota is an even
better company than realized because I remember those cars as being
very reliable in the company fleet. One person thought his Nova was
proof the American car industry could match the Japanese in quality,
and I hated telling him it was actually a Corolla.