Honda Nissan Merger

[Andrew Shadow]

I may be mistaken but the Nummi plant in 2005 Only produced Toyota cars not GM Nova's.

It did not. The NUMMI venture that concurrently produced the Corollas and Novas was between 1985 and 1988.

As far as Toyota vehicles produced there go on the Toyota Websites and you will see plenty built that have over 500K miles on them. Btw you do know Toyota Lexus cars have been #1 for decades.

I expressed how making a claim that there is a significant difference in build quality between the Corollas and the Novas of the period during which these two vehicles were being built concurrently by the same people, in the same manufacturing plant, at the same time, by the same company, does not add up as they were in essence the very same vehicle. Whether your two statements are factual or not, whether I knew this or not, I fail to see what relevance they have to that point.

The period during which NUMMI was building Corollas and Novas concurrently ended in 1988. This predates 2005 by many years. Whatever happened, be it good or bad, at Toyota let alone in that particular plant many years later in 2005 is of no consequence to what happened back the mid 1980's.

Regardless of what position Toyota Lexus may rank in, past or current, its ranking has no bearing on what happened in the past at NUMMI between the years of 1985 and 1988. I don't even think that Lexus had even launched until after this venture had ended.

 

[milq]

He also told my Brother that Toyota was making a deal with Nissan to use their CVT technology in Toyotas, including the Tacomas. Not sure how good of an idea that is if the fact that everyone who works at that Nissan dealer hates the Nissan CVT transmissions counts for anything.

I'd like to think Toyota is smarter than that, I've not met many people who like the quality of the Nissan CVT.