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HOW IS TOYOTA LIKE THE POPE?

It is interesting to watch this slow motion trainwreck.

Toyota Admits Lexus Safety Problem

At least this time it only took a few days for them to come around.

There was a time when I was convinced that, if we got another car, the Toyota organization was one of the best choices you could make for quality and service. The looks not withstanding. But, hell. A car is a car.

Now? No.

How could there reputation slide so fast?

Hubris?

There are a lot of people who are in denial about this. Some are buying the cars up.

I suppose that is OK. Not me.

They had that Prius thing going for them too. This slows the mo' all down so that other brands can catch up.

I have sort of left the world of brands and business and all. But this is so striking that I have to spend a little time thinking about it.

They show an ad in the morning with Toyota employees talking about "kaizan" or some such word that describes their pride and dedication to a good product.

Pride goeth before a fall. Kaizan!

This all reminds me of the Vatican and their way of dealing with their huge "pr" problem.

They are failing because it is not a pr problem. It is a pope problem and until the system gets fixed, the problem is going to persist.

That is how the pope and Toyota are the same.

Is the Popemobile a Toyota?

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