Sales and production of Toyota's supercharged TRD Aurion on hold due to engine failure

Petrolhead submitted on 09/19/2007 Official AutoSpies Timestamp: 8:39 AM
from: www.carupdate.com.au

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Sales and production of Toyota's supercharged TRD Aurion on hold due to engine failure

Toyota have announced today that they have temporarily suspended further sales of their new supercharged TRD Aurion. GoAuto have reported that a Melbourne dealer salesman was driving one of the new TRD Aurions last week when the cars engine failed. Read Article

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Kinger - 9/19/2007 9:29:15 AM

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Nice to see Toyota taking the appropriate action. Must be an isolated incident though, surely if it was a problem that was going to affect all models produced it would be discovered during testing?

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Agent009 - 9/19/2007 9:31:59 AMView My AgentSpace

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One might think that, but you never know.

Bmw8ter - 9/19/2007 11:14:22 AM

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Toyota just recently figured out my '07 camry v6 engine problem. It was a manufacturing defect with one of the valve lifters; caused misfiring constantly. Warranty repair cost - $1,402...and not a single f'ing consulation prize for owning the first '07 Camry V6, in the U.S., that had this problem.

EnnNorak - 9/19/2007 10:29:37 PM

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Maybe they used one of those brittle silicon-impregnated engine blocks (a la BMW V-8) without iron liners to save a few pennies. This should not have happened but it's good that Toyota has taken appropriate steps. The only outstanding item now is full disclosure by Toyota as to what the design flaw was and what exactly did happen.

EnnNorak - 9/19/2007 10:33:12 PM

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MidEngine, there is totally insufficient information in the article so your accusation against opfreak is unjustified.

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montyz81 - 9/19/2007 11:13:16 AM

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is that a camary in the US?

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Bmw8ter - 9/19/2007 11:16:02 AM

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it's Australian, but pretty much the same as the U.S. Camry V6, only it has a Supercharger.

Alec - 9/19/2007 11:34:10 AM

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It might look a little "ricey" but its a dam sight better looking than the US Camry.

MeanVulcan - 9/19/2007 12:49:08 PM

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Toyota reps claim a "one-off" event that "shouldn't" affect other cars.

So why stop the production line Toyoman? is the problem more serious than we're led to believe?

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Agent009 - 9/19/2007 1:57:48 PMView My AgentSpace

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That does seem suspect.

kpaxx - 9/19/2007 2:18:35 PM

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More evidence of toyota's production and quality problems...

Toyota wants to sell lots of cars but can they a lot of quality cars to sell.

I think the quality of most GM cars is equivalent or better than anything from toyota.

EnnNorak - 9/19/2007 10:35:40 PM

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Given the engine sludge problems that Toyota had a few years ago, I am more suspicious than all the other suspicious comments here. Why is there no full disclosure re the problem?

Bmw8ter - 9/19/2007 12:54:38 PM

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Since Toyota isn't in any kind of financial crisis like the U.S. big three, I don't see why they can't do a limited production run of these here in the U.S.

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