Yes i feel that Toyota's recent owning up/coming clean on QC issues plus the open apology offered by the CEO was a very shrewd move, they might have been lambasted by certain elements of the media, but in the minds of individual buyers i believe (who are the ones paying not pontificating) grew a renewed trust.

Toyota stands by its products and doesn't treat its customers with contempt, i've had first hand experience of this out of warranty work completed with nothing but good grace.

Compare with the way some other brands behave when they have issues, denial and reluctance to fix their customers products in an honourable way the second warranty expires until so bombarded by reports becoming common knowledge via internet that they have no option.

Now Toyota, sort your models out, drop the idiotic electric parking brake in the Avensis, offer some cooking engines like you did with the Corolla T Sport supercharged almost Q car, and allow easy officially approved access to petrol versions of Hilux in the UK for those of us who prefer LPG, oh and make the Hilux full time 4WD please...that'll do for starters and i'll have the first official 2.7 or 3.4 version with an offical LPG conversion...;)

Edited by gordonbennet on 14/01/2013 at 12:48

VW probably need to change two things to overtake Toyota.

They need to sell more in America, where Toyota still do very well and they need a Prius rivalling Hybrid. California loves the sodding thing.

See you people just don't appreciate my magnificence do you?

They have a massive factory in the states and these Hybrids will be built there for the American market they expect to be the largest Hybrid seller in three years.VAGs words not mine.