Toyota Dealers In Nj Say The Prius Is Wrongly Accused By All Of The Negative Hype

Unless you live in a cave you have heard all the trials and troubles that Toyota has dealt with over the last few months

. Considering the scale of the recalls and the potential danger if the vehicle problems turned out to be large-scale, it was definitely legitimate news. Your Newark new Toyota dealer wants you to know the facts.

What has happened with this story though is not legitimate news and should never have made it into the national media except to denounce the supposed tester for what he was. Toyota lawyers have asked ABC News for an apology and a retraction of the story. Whether they will receive either remains to be seen, but customers and the general public have a right to know that this is poor journalism at its best. Sadly, this put Toyota Prius in the worst light when it didnt deserve to be there and Toyota dealers NJ feel it was too negative.

The saga began when Brian Ross of ABC News ran a story on Southern Illinois University Professor David Gilbert who had tested a Toyota car and claimed he achieved unintended acceleration and the car did not record this in its computer for mechanics to identify later.

What wasnt revealed until later was the fact that Gilbert had adjusted the wiring on the Toyota in order to make it respond this way, that he had been a paid consultant for a law firm suing Toyota and that Ross had edited the footage in the story to be misleading. He recorded the tachometer of the car surging and spliced it into footage of a high-speed ride in the Toyota.

Toyota dealers in NJ are taken aback by this twisted turn of events and urge customers to seek both sides of the story. Strangely, the other side of the story involves Toyota already being the media underdog, GM and Chrysler being virtually untouchable because they are mostly government-owned now, and the media no longer being the watchdog branch but rather the lap dog.

But this isnt about the media at-large, just ABC. Or is it? Has there been fair and accurate coverage of the recent recalls? Has GM made the news as often as Toyota when vehicles had comparable problems? The public needs to do a little news-gathering of its own and not just be content with the pabulum fed to us by ABC or CNN. There is often more to the story and might actually have to do some reading or change the channel to get the other half.

Newark new Toyota dealers hope that customers will be more aware of Toyotas promise to provide a quality product and will keep their brand loyalty. In the meantime Toyota and its dealers will continue to correct recall issues and offer great deals to customers on all models of vehicles.

by: James Jenney

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