One Hour of CNN

Now is the time to buy a Toyota. If I actually believed what the American news told me, I would say you could read that comment as sarcasm, unfortunately American news is crap and now really is the best time to buy a Toyota.

Last weekend I had the un-pleasure of watching an hour of CNN. The news hour that was on was building up to a headline story concerning faulty accelerators in certain Toyota models. During this hour's un-breaking news stories I also had the displeasure of watching commercials,,, I watched about 6 minutes of Buick ads during this entire news hour. It seemed odd but it didn't hit me until after I saw the headline story. To highlight the accelerator issue CNN interviewed a proclaimed victim of the faulty Toyota accelerator. When it turned out to be just a young, inexperienced driver (with the worst looking neck-brace I've seen since Brenda was rear-ended on 90210), I realized I was witnessing a smear campaign.

Obviously the Toyota Prius has stolen the car spotlight for most Americans over the past 10 years, all this while the American car companies are being bailed out and losing all credibility with the American car buying public. So a woman who is accused of being drunk or speeding while losing control of her Toyota down a steep hill, says the car was at fault (3 year olds get away with this kind of lie, not mothers with 3 kids). This incident is quickly swooped up by our national news networks and the same network sells ad time to the American car companies,,, brilliant! Cars with an automatic transmission have an idol speed of a couple mph, this idol speed is quickly increased when matched with a steep inclined plane. I have never been in a car where this idol speed couldn't be controlled by the brake, she was a bad driver and she's lucky to be alive.

If your national news source has advertising in between news blocks, I recommend you find a new news source. Now couldn't be a better time to buy a Toyota, boycott American car companies.