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Well said Bre. Its so glaring in some quarters that its a take over or go strategy BUT the Japanese giant wants to weather it through to rubb it in their face. The thing is that US is not the largest market for anything anymore (except for cheap drugs), so smart manufacturers and service providers are moving to the East, so is Toyota before all this and even at the moment.

Whats even the use, its all credit anyways, guarranteed by what?, debt to the chinese and even japan too. BUT I like the Japanese giant's approach and attitude - its really rubbing it in their faces, people still dont see their brands - even though its on every google advert page.

@Fhemmmy
Cost analysis has to do with getting it through and off the production line to the factory lot. Shipping is market dependent, 3rd parties in advertisement and screening for dealerships with negotiated incentives and commissions.

Fhemmmy, its called Packaging

philips,

your missing something. toyota knew about some of these problems far back as 2007 but chose to do nothing about them. how's that for a [b]'responsible' and 'honorable' [/b]brand? Huh

Its very unfortunate that Toyota has a plant in the US, that explains how they were able to infilterate and perpetuate the whole thing. For me, it only makes the American auto industry very very cheap.

ignorance could be 'bliss' but being smug about a problem that could potentially lead to one's lose of life is to say the least, reckless.

i love toyota. as a matter of fact i've just pre-ordered a toyota car to be delivered shortly but that will not make me close my eyes to obvious flaws reported by people who have actually driven these cars. if you choose to go by the conspiracy balderdash, it's your call. but take my advice, do a thorough check of your car (if you drive any of these toyotas) just to be sure your not driving your way to no return land! Cool

This is not a matter of being fooled, it is being for real.
Have you noticed that till Toyota started making their cars in America and in Canada, they never had a problem?
That is food for thought . . . . . but let us leave the conspiracy talk alone.

Now tell me what kinda car you wanna buy and let us put our resources to work for you. . . . . . Peace

why this ranting on MEND, anyway we all got opinions, truth be told: mend intimidates, and shakes the federal govt, They get pissed nd Amnest the militants, whom are not MEND. Let me tell u smetin: MEND is future, so the earlier we get dat the better 4 us all. THE GOVT NEEDS SMEONE TO PINCH THEIR NOSE pointing them towards sincerity. i salute MEND.

Let us leave that part for the political section and not worry our heads about it . . . . .
Also, regardless of what it is and was, Toyota has a problem with the recall and i think it is oly fair for people that are paying thru their nose to pay money for the rides, some are re-mortgaging their homes to buy the rides, so it is only fair to make sure that they are not death traps.
Let us leave the conspiracy stuff and make sure safety are not compromised.

I wonder how long we will continue to blame America for everything.

philips,
please cut out all this conspiracy theory crap. america is an open country with an open mind. they don't need to 'pull down' any particular company in order to favor their own.

i think you should be more worried about the potential dangers in driving a car which has been identified as a safety risk than being smug thinking that nothing can happen-unless maybe you want to be among the statistics needed to prove that the ntsb was right all along!

But seriously, I think that Toyota thing is an over-hyped conspiracy against Japan / Toyota; more like a desperate move by a dying economy or industry to sell their failed brands by a sabotage against the world's No. 1. Thats just my own understanding of the whole thing and its very unfortunate, BUT from what I gather, its having no impact at all outside the Ford country.

I wonder why mend haven't killed that guy.

Is there a requirement for cars to have airbags in Nigeria?

The rear end of a flat-bed trailer. If it was hit by the Kia itself, it would create damage below the bonnet / grille area. Smiley

I doubt it hasn't. Every industry has industry safety standards and regulations and all cars must meet these standard before they're certified for use. The law's been amended continuously. The only explanation is that the triggering system's defective.

How come nobody is also thinking of the possibility of a defective airbag (SRS) system in this car. I have seen a lot of people driving their so called american/japanese machines (cars) with their airbag lights on on the dashboard and yet they dont think about checking it out. I think we are all jumping to hasty conclusions. The lights on your instruments cluster are to warn in case there is a problem and that is why the airbag light is RED not green. So there could have been another side to these stories. Mind you, i am not a kia or hyundai lover.

Gosh, it's time Nigerians learnt that working for someone makes you prone to one of the 3Rs (Retrenchment, Resignation or Retirement).
I know it's not easy for the month to end without your bank credit beeping you. Well, life is not fair. . . .and we should stop blaming the management of the MNCs. We got what we deserved: negative branding and poor governance of the image "Nigeria". To those to be affected, just pray God leads you aright; better days are ahead better than whatever !

Wot a pity.anyway i dnt blame ericson.wen a graduate has dis input mentality i.e wot d company can do 4 me instead of an output mentality (wot value i can ad 2 d company).afta employin a graduate u stil av 2 re teach dem wot dey r suposed 2 av learnt.dats anoda expense on itr own which cud b avoidable.nyway ericsn has taken d easy way out by employin quality stafs who can do d job wel n putin sentiments bout ericsn bin in naija.simply putin a round peg in a round hole

I can tell you one thing immediately: there is no such human being that is an atheist or one who does not believe in God. What we have are people who do not have the inclination to accept the amazingly multifarious concepts of God that is taught in religions. Each religion paints a different picture of God and incredibly each wants its own concept to be accepted by others and when this does not happen, they brand those who refuse to accept their theories.

Again, what is most frustrating about all these is that each religion tries to monopolise the Almighty, that they alone have access to Him and that only the ways they have prescribed can lead to Him and no other way. Thus they want to force their opinions upon others. Strong willed people who still have within them their humanity cannot accept the various versions held out today of the concept of the Almighty.

Unfortunately, the commercialism that religion has become today makes it imperative that each religion have to device means and strategies to capture a chunk of the 'market'. They do this by besmirching those who do not share their views or who refuse to be drawn into the web of falsehood that is so prevalent today.

In addition, there is so much about life, existence and the Almighty that no religion has been able to explain and so the word 'faith' was coined by them to get people to believe the unbelievables. They have not been able to explain so many things that are in existence today, for example why people are born into particular circumstances where from the very beginning they are exposed to the hard side of life while others are born with golden or silver spoons. Why natural disasters happen and why there is so much wickedness in the world today. Given the number of religious people in Nigeria, the country ought to be the best country in the world to live in. But the reality today should tell you that what is done in the religions cannot be right because it has not brought us progress. Clear and deep thinking people usually reject religion and that is what is mistakenly taken to be atheism.

No right thinking human being can reject the existence of God because the whole of creation attest to His Existence. The very fact that there is creation gives you the proof that there is a Creator. As a minor example, the very fact that there is a computer is proof that there are computer engineers, technologists, designers, programmers etc. However, it is not in the computer's place to decide to believe in the existence of its creator. Whether human beings accept His Existence or not does not change the fact. As everyone knows, creation is a masterpiece of a design in which everything we need to sustain us is provided by the All-Wise Creator.

We all know that everything requires a source of energy to function. Human beings require nourishment, our vehicles require fuel, our industries require electric power and so forth. Even the spirit require power to live as a spirit. Ask your boyfriend the Source of the Power that maintain and sustain Creation or does he not believe that we need power to survive. Listen very well to his explanation of whether power is needed or not, and then the Source of that Power and you will be able to decipher whether he does not indeed believe in the existence of the Creator for He alone is the Source of Power for all creation.

I will stop here for now until you have carried out the exercise and then we can continue when you have the result.

if what they did was converting d.c. to a.c. then it is no news.i did that many years ago using an inverter.it requires seasonal recharge of the battery.their invention can only be news if it does not require battery recharge.

I doubt those contraction can run for one hour (depending on the battery bank)not to talk of one day. A more efficient system would be to connect the fuc.king batteries directly to the load. You would eliminate loss of energy from the various conversions and the noise or friction.

Well,You may not have thought that if the RPM of the Motor equals that of the coil supposing both are made of the same materials then the same Energy used to
propel the motor will be same for the Alternator with little or no further loss in energy
perhaps you have not bothered to ask why your vehicle crankshaft is rotating both the Alternator,the main engine fan,the AC compressor, the power steering motor,the wheels etc at the same time yet the car runs for years.

An accumulator is just a Battery for storing electricity.

You power a D.C motor with a battery and connect it again to an alternator and now produce an alternating current from a Direct Current.

A capacitor does not boost current, it stores and stabilizes output current

A transformer does not step up current, it transforms - meaning step up or step down) voltage, current depends on the load.

This is a poor attempt at a perpetual motion machine. You turn alternator with current from a battery though a D.C. motor and in turn attempt to charge the battery with the current generated from the alternator using a diode and a capacitor.

This is a very poor attempt, even if the system is not loaded, the loss of energy from the system would run down the battery in a very short time. Simply converting the battery D.C. to A.C. through an inverter would be a much more efficient set up, as there would be no mechanical moving parts.

WRONG!!! You cannot step up any current as long as you are stepping up the voltage.

The principle of transformer remains that either voltage or current can be stepped up and vise versa but not both.

Power in its most basic sense = voltage X current and transformer deals with turns ratio between the voltages and currents.

This nonsense must stop.

Now since the current produced from the alternator would not be polarized, one would need a diode for polarization

2. Attach a D.C Motor to the rotating end of an Alternator(can be found in our normal generators)

@beaf how free was the 1993 elections and if it was so free wat did we achieve with an election where there were no results?

The truth is dat the politicians messed us up, or wasnt it Arthur Nzeribe a politician who went to court and got a ruling that results should not be declared and Nwosu refused to obey.

Iwu tried his best Obj didnt allow Iweala return to finance ministry so that the treasury could be pludered to manipulate the elections same was the challenge Iwu had believe me Obj should be blamed squarely for the 2007 failures

@beaf how free was the 1993 elections and if it was so free wat did we achieve with an election where there were no results?

Iwu tried his best Obj didnt allow Iweala return to finance ministry so that the treasury could be pludered to manipulate the elections same was the challenge Iwu had believe me Obj should be blamed squarely for the 2007 failures

Even God has given up on Nigeria.

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we arent interested on awards and such cuz as far as Nigeria is concern those are useless

this is a man with high level corruption alleged against him, for far too long he as a servent of the people hasnt said anything

now im aint a lawyer, but herein commonsense will tell that keeping closed lip Lips sealed Lips sealed i think is implicating as it is

we are no fools!!!