Toyota Involved in Dokdo Plot?
Will the lunacy over Dokdo ever end in Korea? From the Korea Times:
Toyota has recalled about 4,000 cars this year, including 1,863 Lexus RX330s in August for faulty driver’s seats. Toyota is replacing BMW as the top-selling imported brand, having sold 5,183 vehicles in the January-October period. BMW, which had occupied the No. 1 for six consecutive years since 1999, fell to second with the sale of 4,931 in the same period.
Toyota also recalled IS250 and GS430, two popular Lexus models, for seat belt and airbag defects.
Additionally, auto experts said there is a possibility of getting an electric shock if the Lexus RX400h, the first hybrid car on the Korean market, is involved in a car accident.
But a Toyota official argued that no case has been reported in the U.S., citing a sensor system in the SUV.
According to the afternoon newspaper Munhwa, the Japanese carmaker is raising the ire of netizens for dropping the Dokdo Islets, the islets to the east of Korea that Japan also lays its claim to, from its navigation system. The allegation comes on top of complaints that it is selling its cars at inflated prices.
Who the hell cares if Dokdo is on an in car navigation system or not? Does Korea have plans to make a superhighway over 200 kilometers of ocean to get to Dokdo? My Garmin GPS doesn’t have Dokdo on it either, does that mean that Garmin is some how involved in this great Japanese conspiracy to take over Dokdo?
HT: Japundit
