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djon78:
You didn't answer my question.
Benz is in niche market what's there market capitalization versus Toyota?

From market capitalization you understand how vast the scope of each is.

Example amazon, Apple, Microsoft and google all have there market capitalization in the trillion dollars segment.

Toyotas market capitalization is about $300billion while Mercedes capitalization is not up to $50billion.

Toyota is a much bigger company in comparison to Mercedes.

You are talking about niche marketing, Toyotas marketing strategy is different from Mercedes. They are in every segment of the market even the niche market that's why Lexus was made to compete in the segment of Mercedes market.

So I don't see any basis someone comparing the two business wise. Toyota are excellent with there strategy and at what the do that's why they are number one automaker in the world.

They have bigger capitalization
They have bigger revenues
They have bigger profit
They are the market leader number 1

Bigger doesn't mean quality
.....okay to make you happy

Toyota is bigger than Benz
Bigger than BMW
Niger than Ferrari
Bigger than Lamborghinis
Bigger than Aston Martin
Bigger than Rolls Royce


Are you happy now ?

Invisible123:
Good evening all,

I have just found myself in a dilemma that's really disturbing me emotionally. I need matured and candid advice from anyone who cares.

Just recently, myself and my fiancee concluded our introduction ceremony. The wedding comes up middle of this year.

Now the problem :

My fiancee is pregnant, early last month I registered her for anti natal in a very reputable hospital in Lagos. It is standard practice that they run series of tests before commencement of the treatment. After the results came out, my wife didn't disclose the findings to me, she kept it to herself until a day after the introduction.

The results indicated that her genotype is AS of which I'm also AS. Note that we had gone for checks 4 times before committing to each other, on all four occasions the results came out as AA for her. Her mum also confirmed that she is AA, she claimed she got her tested when she was young. Immediately she told me, I got so confused, I started sweating profusely. I immediately took her to another Lab close to the general hospital in my area. We both ran the test, I came our as my usual AS while she came out as AA. Also, Today, just to be sure again, she ran another test in a separate hospital on the Island and she also came out as AA.

My fear:

The hospital I registered her in is a reputable hospital and that's the reason I'm scared. I informed the hospital of my findings, they took another sample and promised to get back to me. It took them two days to call me, they left me and my wife in emotional distress while devising a means to clear their name or confuse me with medical terms. They finally called today and told me she has the AS hemoglobin in her blood but the AA is more pronounced. This got me confused cos if the AA is more pronounced, why release the result as AS in the first place. This is why I find their story hard to believe.

I feel they came up with this excuse just to justify their claim and cover up their mistake. How can 6 clinics and hospitals test her as AA while only this hospital says AS.

Note, just this evening a new test from a separate hospital says she's AA.

Nairalanders, please what do I do? Is it possible for this anomaly to happen ? Is it possible for her to have AS and AA hemoglobin at the same time where one will be more pronounced than the other. And if it's possible, what her the chances of my baby coming out fine.

Thanks Nairalanders.

Take her to another testing centre and confirm it and of both of you are AS. . You have two options ! Either not to marry and stop the marriage or the second option is
Get ready to have a sickle cell baby! You have the option now. You have to think with your head because your wife was thinking with her heart !

The ball is in your court ! In marriage, love isn't enough! It's the last thing to consider! The first thing is compatibility

okoligee:
many litters of gear oil does Mercedes c320 use? it is a six cylinder engine

it should be around 7 star oil

djon78:
What's Toyota's market capitalization versus Mercedes?

Toyota is number one automaker in the world while Mercedes is ranked number 9.

Toyota is a bigger company based on revenue and profits.

There are way more people driving Toyota's to Mercedes.

People seff

So Toyota is the number one automaker doesn't make their products best..

Is Toyota better than Rolls Royce, Ferrari, Lamborghini....these firms produce for niche market unlike Toyota that produces for everyone

Just like Benz....Benz isn't a car for everyone . Toyota is a car for everyone

Understand the concept of niche market

Because you sell 20 bags of pure water doesn't make pure water better than Eva or nestle bottled water


Understand this concept

yungboss:
Lexus was built to compete in the luxury market, Mercedes being the benchmark. Mercedes is still ahead of lexus, I think there's no questioning that. Mercedes does it with finesse of performance. No matter how appointed the lexus is, its still viewed as an offshoot of Toyota. For example, the Rx300 and the 1st gen Highlander share about the same 3litre engine. Mercedes, Audi, BMW, Porsche are in the same category, from Germany too. Lexus is from a background with a different philosophy from the companies mentioned. Lexus is without a doubt very excellent.
I think the first lexus was built in 1989 but before then Mercedes, BMW, Porsche, Audi and some other European automobile companies had already made a strong mark in the business. It's okay if lexus is trying to snatch off top spots, but the truth is, it will be difficult.
Ask yourself this, what lexus sedan stands today to knock the 2019 s65 amg (v12 biturbo) off that spot, in terms of luxury & performance in one package? Even the s63? Lexus has that reliability edge no doubt, but alot of folks who drive those automobiles do not give so much thoughts towards reliability, for the fact that they are wealthy, they do it for prestige...

S/he is incorrigible

DownChelsea:
would you do your business with something as unreliable as mercedes benz?

Only a fool would

Whatever you are taking is potent. Trust me don't change your dealer. ..he is giving you the finest weed

Keep comparing kiosk Toyota with Benz

JohnieWalker12:
She still looks good even in her 30's. Slay Queens watch and learn no be by bleaching

she is 41

meavox:
NORTH HAS DESTROYED ITSELF, DESTROYED NIGERIA, SEPARATION IS ONLY WAY FORWARD!
BY BAYO OLUWASANMI
SAHARA REPORTERS
FEB 24, 2020


We have been held captive of northerners’ politics of poverty and insanity far too long. The urgency of now demands immediate withdrawal or separation, or secession, of Yorubas from Nigeria. This I believe is the only and best way forward.


The ever blunt plain speaking Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi recently warned that the North will destroy itself if it doesn’t change.
Apparently, Sanusi was referring to the northerners who had ruled Nigeria longest since independence. He sounds like the Old Testament prophet of doom with a thundering denunciation: “The rest of the country cannot be investing, educating its children, producing graduates and then they watch us, they can’t get jobs because they came from the wrong state, when we have not invested in the future of our own children.”

“You cannot be happy,” continues Sanusi, “about 87 percent of poverty in Nigeria being in the North. You cannot be happy with millions of Northern out-of-school children. You cannot be happy with nine states in the North contributing almost 50 percent of the entire malnutrition burden in the country. You cannot be happy with Boko Haram problem. You cannot be happy with all the issues,” Sanusi explains.

Sanusi concludes by predicting dire consequences for the north: “If the north doesn’t change, it will destroy itself. The country is moving on. If we don’t listen, there would be a day when there would be a Constitutional amendment that addresses these issues of quota system and federal character.”

There’s no one more eminently qualified than a northerner to decry the incapacity of his Northern brethren that had ruled and ruined Nigeria for almost a quarter of century since independence. Of course, the northerners remain the most impoverished in Nigeria.

We can all agree that all the different ethnic groups that had ruled Nigeria past and present, military dictators or civilian presidents, failed abysmally to transform Nigeria. We are witnesses to the fact that those from the north are the worst military dictators and the most ill equipped civilian presidents. It’s not that the north will destroy itself as Sanusi warned. The fact is, the north had destroyed itself and destroyed Nigeria!

Here is how the North destroyed itself and destroyed Nigeria: Governance is the way a country manages its affairs politically and the way power and authority are exercised. The influence of a good government or a bad government on the poorest and the most vulnerable is profoundly telling. The northerners who ruled us have repeatedly aided and hastened the failure of government institutions that would have prevented conflict, ensure security, and provide basic services.

They have presided in large part, over government that prevented generations of poor Nigerians from lifting themselves out of poverty. These poor Nigerians have been incapacitated from growing economically. Nigerians have been constrained by the outmoded Constitution foisted on us by dictator from the North named Ibrahim Babangida.

The Northerners including the present president Muhammadu Buhari, don’t understand governance. They cannot figure out that governance is central to achieving development. They have no clue that politics is connected to development. Development is key and central to politics. The politics of poverty practiced by the northerners makes them the greatest enemies to our economic growth that allows Nigerians to escape cycles of poverty.

They have proved over and over again that they are not accountable to the people. They have made politics their only profession where they can illegally amass wealth. We are yet to fully retrieve billions of dollars stashed away by Abacha. Northerners don’t regard other sections of the country as co-equal power-sharing citizens.

They have deliberately pursued politics that creates inequalities which fuels conflict. They failed to solve socioeconomic problems facing the poor and vulnerable families with no access to education and healthcare - the important routes out of poverty. Citizens are not part of service delivery. Services delivery targeting the poor which can reduce political tensions and improved security are not in place.

The northerners believe politics is an abstract concept, hence they don’t see it as an essential determinant of development goals. They cannot connect politics to governance that produce better educated, healthier, and prosperous citizens. They cannot fathom that development is germane to evidence of politics as the “driver of change.” They have failed to use politics for people’s security and access to justice. They can’t grasp the fact that political relationships between ruling elites and citizens dictate delivering development through poverty reduction and by addressing social justice and extremes of inequality.

The regime of Buhari, another northerner, is mired in a crisis of credibility. He has failed woefully to end Boko Haram and herdsmen terrorism. His regime is corrupt and divorced from the will of Nigerians. Nigerians rising demands and expectations are outpaced by the capacity of Buhari to respond. He and others in his regime have amassed enormous wealth and power. Buhari and northerners before him destroyed or eroded our democratic institutions by non-compliance with democratic rules.

The tragic irony is that unlike many other African countries, Nigeria has the resources - human capital and natural resources - it needs to develop and transform the country. Though the Northerners have proved grossly incompetent to govern, they stubbornly cling to power at the centre. They now see themselves as kingmakers who decide which geopolitical zone will produce the next president. They believe It’s their sacred duty to choose, screen, and select candidates.

There’s nothing one can point to that portrays the Northerners as agents of change. Instead, they are reactionaries to progressive and revolutionary ideas that can transform Nigeria. Few recent approaches of northerners to governance will suffice:

1. The senator who sponsored the hate bill that’s capable of wiping out our freedom of speech to air our views on national issues, to criticize our government and hold those in power accountable is from the north, Senator Sabi Aliyu Abdullahi, Niger North senatorial district).

2. Ibrahim Gaidam from Yobe senatorial district introduced the bill that will create agency for repentant Boko Haram terrorists.

3. Alhassan Ado-Doguwa from Kano, majority leader, House of Representatives came to House of Reps with his four wives, boasting that the four wives have produced 27 children and still counting.

4. $100m of Abacha loot was surreptitiously funnelled by Buhari to Kebbi State Governor Atiku Bagudu. Needless to say, all the four instances cited, there’s no correlation between the examples and good governance.

How long shall we continue to allow imbeciles and fools to rule us? How long are we going to sheepishly follow spectators as managers of our nation, resources, and people? Why do we have to subject and submit ourselves to the reign of economic and political terror of a section of the country that lacks capacity, capability, intelligence, integrity, wisdom, and vision?

We have been held captive of northerners’ politics of poverty and insanity far too long. The urgency of now demands immediate withdrawal or separation, or secession, of Yorubas from Nigeria. This I believe is the only and best way forward.


SOURCE
http://saharareporters.com/2020/02/24/north-has-destroyed-itself-destroyed-nigeria-separation-only-way-forward-bayo-oluwasanmi

Ask your SW sophisticated ones

Sagtop:
1. Sheikh Abdullahi Adam Idoko:
He is the Chief imam of the University of Nigeria (UNN) Nsukka. Hails from Ogute Enugu-Ezike in Nsukka, Enugu State.
He is also the Deputy secretary-general of the Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA).

2. Ustaz Christian Isah Okonkwo:
He is from Akpugo in Nkanu LGA, Enugu State. He was the president of Moslem Corpers Association in Kaduna State and the Moslem Corpers Association of Nigeria. He was made the chief Imam of University of Ibadan in the 1980s. He is currently the Director of Administration of Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA)

3. Alhaji Abdulaziz Chibuzo Ude:
Hails from Anambra state. He is described as a businessman, Industrialist, Billionaire and a Philanthropist.
He was an acting Chairman of the Board of Directors of NEWSWATCH in the 1980s. He is the founder of Nok Publishers and first African editor at Double Day.

4. Alhaji Daud Onyeagocha:
He is from Imo state, a human right lawyer.
He is the Chief Imam of Imo State and the Waziri Hausawa. His grandfather was said to be the first recorded Owerri man to embrace Islam in 1908.

5. Sheikh Daud Nwagui:
He is from Afikpo in Ebonyi State. He is a Muslim from birth and the son of late Sheikh Ibrahim Okpani Nwagui, the founder of the Islamic Center, Afikpo who brought Islam to Afipko in 1958.

6. HRH Dr. Abdulfatai Emetumah:
He is the Igwe (Traditional ruler) of Umuofor Kingdom, Oguta LGA , Of Imo state. He is described as an Islamic scholar.
His father, Eze Alhaji Abdul Gaffaru (Ezeodo, Eze Ohazurukwe I of Akabor) is said to have converted to Islam during the war and thereafter brought it to his home town.

7. Sheikh Shehu Uthman Anaga:
Hails from Ebonyi state. Became a Muslim at the age of 13 in 1972. He has worked with JNI as a Preacher. He holds a BA in Islamic Studies from the King Sa'ud University in Riyad, Saudi Arabia.
He was the vice principal and later principal of of Jama'atu Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies. He was the provost of the Jama'atu College of Education, Kaduna. He has completed his Masters and is pursuing his PHD.

8. Alhaji Yahaya Ndu:
He is from Ezeagu LGA in Enugu State. An Imam at Al-Hauda Muslim School. He was the presidential Candidate of the African Renaissance Party (ARP).

9. Ustaz Aminu Igwebe Odera:
He is from Orlu in Imo state. Converted to Islam at the age of 12 in the 1970s. Studied Islamic studies and later Food science technology in Tripoli University Libya.
He was the chief Imam of Owerri. He was appointed the director of Administration of Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) in 2000. His maternal uncle, Late Muhammad Ukaba was the chief imam of Orlu Local Government.

10. Chief Abdulkadir A Obiahu:
He is from Afikpo in Ebonyi state. He is an Engineer by Training, in 2007 he was conferred the Chieftaincy title of 'Onye Nchekwa Okwukwe Ala kuba Na Ala Igbo' (The Defender of the Islamic Faith in Igbo land) by His Royal Highness, Eze Nwosu Ibe, the Ezeigbo I of Abuja. He converted to Islam in 1982.

The hutsle is real ....Igbo man can do anything to be a Muslim

Smartchoiice:
Both of you should get a room.

...and make love ! If she is a real lady

Can't he just marry this lady ! Why do they just Bleep around

Kokoebapluse:
Allah said he created us with different skin and language but We are all one, but been a muslim have much closer to each other allah said in quran all muslim are one community, which mean all muslim are the same, We are equal physicaly but We have different value to allah you can not compare prophet with ordinary Man, in islam all warn us not to spread curroption on earth, if the Girl is a muslim but she sang curropt song in saudi they have right to purnish her, not because of her skin colour but her words.

In Islam , you African Muslims are called Abeed meaning slaves till date ;

U have been to Arabian nation and I know these

DownChelsea:
You have missed the drift.

Everything was clear from the onset.

Toyota as a company is more bluechip than mercedes . Fact!
Toyota makes mainstream(toyota), luxury(lexus) and ultra luxury(century). Fact.
The difference between toyota mainstream cars and the lexus cars are too evident in every category of class, luxury and refinement. Fact

Nobody would compare mercedes to toyota(I mean the normal toyota mainstream cars) fact.

Lexus had put every player in the luxury business on its toes. Fact

Lexus cars are obviously not toyota(mainstream cars) in disguise. Fact

Literally understanding the topic of this thread would always result in an answer that favours the toyota company. Fact

You have misunderstood the facts. Fact

You have refused to listen and learn. Fact.

A lexus car, similarly priced with a mercedes car would offer options that the mercedes car could only dream of... fact

Even Lexus can't even be compared to Benz to an extent because in Benz their reputation precede them ....

maynation:
Lol.
I haven't seen any that has those specs but s/he may be saying the truth sha.

Lol

erico2k2:
Dnt 4get Ubar, they made toyota brand sell from North America to Europe, person nor fit drive Prius in peace, them go just dey stop U anyhow like taxi

Here Toyota is sn Uber car ! It's s car for the masses not a bucket market car like Benz

Not Nigerians but Yoruba are interested

DownChelsea:
your post never talked about engines.

The drivers are the issue here.

The post never talked about drivers it's the engine that what this thread is all about


Have a good day

I am done lecturing you

DownChelsea:
do you know toyota sales figures in Europe?

Joker. Why not post the European vehicle sales stats here. In the different categories.

Toyota and volkswagen are the top 2 brands in the world. Don’t carve Europe out of YOUR OWN WORLD

The problem is that you are not getting it...comparing Toyota to Benz is like comparing Seaman Aromatic schnapps with Hennessy or 501

Toyota is a mass market car and it's for commoners

Benz is a niche market car and it's for certain people that's why it commands respect globally


Tomorrow you would say because Toyota is selling billions of car it's better than Aston Martin or Rolls Royce that sells few cars


Niche market cars are luxury cars

Because you drink a lot of pure water in sat hey doesn't make it better than Nestle bottled water

Get the drift and have a great day ...while driving that your kiosk you call a car ...know that it doesn't come with side air bags

DownChelsea:
do your research on the Lexus LS.

Thank God(not me) later!

There is nothing to research because you lied on your rebadged Toyota

DownChelsea:
mercedes have had the best drivers coincidentally recently

And it hasn’t always been the case. So quit the lies

Toyota has never won F1 and they are not in the league


Their crappy engines can't withstand the heat

DownChelsea:
tell me lexus cars don’t have those features, let the world laugh at your myopia once and for all.

Abeg tell us the Lexus that has these esoteric features

We are waiting for the model

I am not getting it....is this a GRA road or a single lane to interior?

DownChelsea:
How can toyota make a regular everyday car.

And then make a very luxurious car with all the latest tech, heated and ventilated seats, collision systems, 360 camera, memory settings for all seats, voice controls, automatic controls of all components, more futuristic appearance, lane assits, laser guided cruise control, self parking, premium sound and entertainment system, rear spa with television, table, quad zone climate controls, heated steering wheels, adaptive air suspension, car gallery, ambient lighting, blindspot monitors, highend materials e.t.c (the usual things that make luxury cars what they are)

All these things are things you can never get in a Toyota Camry XLE limited platinum gold presidential ultimate Jesus christ edition.



And yet, a fool on nairaland would come and say a lexus is merely a rebadged toyota with “leather seats”

Biko easy

E ma binu

DOZTECH:
Harmon Kardon in a Lexus?

What model please?

LOL...WHAT THEY USE IS MARK LEVINSON LEXUS SPEAKER SOUND SYSTEM ....

maynation:
Biko Lexus has all those?

What model biko?

LoL...biko ask am ....I don't know if he is bobrisky

igbesachick:
ok, i made a mistake

but this is from india.

So you think your Toyota is a car if global reckon...even in Europe they don't consider that as a car ...in Japan they even respect Benz


Madam, I understand that you drive a Toyota ...but know us just a kiosk

DownChelsea:
the lexus es is the on par with the 5series(not in price oo) but in class.

BUT.

Actually the 5series doesn’t look at the es, it looks at the gs instead.

It’s the gs that the 5series and e class see as their main competition

How are they in par ? Explain what makes them in par !

Explain it ...start with features , HP, safety and 0-100 km movement

Oya start

DownChelsea:
tell me why the drivers take the glory and not the cars.


Hamilton is in benz team. And Hamilton is the best.

You talk things that are way beyound you...

Benz has been winning F1 before Hamilton was even born


Okay show me one ..I mean just one F1 race that your crappy Toyota won in history


They are not even in the league of cars that are in F1 race


This isn't bra sizes we are talking

DownChelsea:
nobody compares toyota with mercedes.

The thread (which was mainly about the companies) was stupid in itself. As Toyota is a far more superior company to mercedes.

Toyota cars(minus lexus) can’t be compared to mercedes as mercedes cars are luxurious and toyota(minus lexus) cars are not..


When comparing mercedes to toyota, by toyotas, we mean the luxurious lexus line of cars.

Blablabla....so tomorrow you carry your RAV4 and park near GLK Benz and say this... As in RAV4 ...I don hear

Biko dress

igbesachick:
ok, i made a mistake

but this is from india.

Didn't you see the dollar version...but wait a minute who told you that Lexus is cheaper than BMW?

This is a Benz thread and we are here to discuss about our cars no matter the models but idìots and clowns would bring their stupidity and madness to disturb the peace of the thread with their clout chasing acts


So unfortunate

radautoworks:
Cadi. Resale value is shit though

There was a thread that they tried comparing Benz with Toyota ....the whole world told them that Toyota and lexus are just kiosk as they said

LoL
https://www.nairaland.com/5702501/toyota-better-company-than-mercedes/18#86939343