Toyota Stops Selling. Suddenly.

Can it be?  Toyota has stopped making Camry's and Corolla's?  And it is telling its dealers to stop selling them?  Due to quality concerns?  No way.  Really?

Really.

The story seems to be that Toyota has a problem with these best-selling cars.  But so does GM and Ford, last seen chugging along way behind in a Camry's rear-view sale volume mirror.  How bad a quality problem can a Toyota car have?

This raises a lot of question marks (see above).  Toyota has already recalled over four million US sold cars, more than it, and almost everyone else, for that matter, sold in 2009.  They seemed to have recalled that the cars don't work quite right.  In large part, they were built well and looked sweet, that's for sure.  They still have great acceleration for their respective classes of vehicles, but, I guess, it ends there.

Or, more accurately, not.

These cars love to accelerate so much that they will just suddenly do it on their own.  And keep on doing it until you land in the ocean, if you are lucky enough to as live near to an ocean as I do.  Your new Camry might generate more G force than the last Space Shuttle roaring into the skies of Florida and later landing in the drink, too.  Except, NASA's ten thousand MIT and Cal Tech PhD's carefully planned for all that and your less schooled Camry didn't even hint at it.

Toyota did assure us all that this sudden-and-endless acceleration is even rarer than that Space Shuttle launch, does not cost nearly as much and won't require a tow back to Texas.

So.  Have you driven a Ford lately?  It might not be as exciting as a Corolla, but it won't deform your cheerful smile into Zombie-face, either.