Sounds like the Yanks have been doing plenty of screwing to their own as GM
and Ford have already settled. Interesting that none of the other
manufacturers have had the balls to stand up to this "big brother" bullying.
Craig
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard A Pyburn [SMTP:rap777@juno.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 1999 8:43 AM
> To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
> Subject: Re: DML: Toyota is fairing too well either.....
>
> I really cracked up when I saw this. It just never stops. Keep sending
> those yankee dollars home and screw everybody else!!
>
>
> On Tue, 13 Jul 1999 20:55:24 -0400 The Man From Utopia <tmfu@home.com>
> writes:
> >U.S. sues Toyota over smog control
> >
> >WASHINGTON (AP) - The government accused Toyota Monday of putting
> >faulty
> >smog-control computers on 2.2 million 1996-1998 vehicles and sought to
> >have
> >the computers repaired and the company fined up to $58.5 billion. On
> >behalf
> >of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Justice Department filed a
> >civil
> >lawsuit against the automaker's U.S. subsidiary under the Clean Air
> >Act in
> >U.S. District Court here after Toyota rejected a government settlement
> >offer
> >last week that might have cost it $100 million in civil fines. The
> >Japanese-owned Toyota company is the first automaker that has refused
> >to
> >settle a Clean Air Act case with the government. Since 1995, Cadillac,
> >Honda, Ford and seven heavy-duty diesel engine makers have reached
> >multimillion-dollar Clean Air Act settlements with the government. The
> >government always seeks up to the maximum civil penalty the act allows
> >but
> >doesn't expect or get that much. The law allows the judge to take into
> >account a company's economic gain from the violation, its history of
> >compliance and remedies and whether a fine would allow a company to
> >stay in
> >business. In this case, the penalty is $25,000 per car sold before
> >Jan. 31,
> >1997, and $27,500 for each car sold after that date. The government
> >did not
> >know the exact dates on which the 1997 model vehicles were sold,
> >857,620 of
> >the 2.2 million total, so the top penalty was between $56.4 billion
> >and
> >$58.5 billion. ###
> >
>
> ___________________________________________________________________
> Get the Internet just the way you want it.
> Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month!
> Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj.
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Fri Jun 20 2003 - 12:14:58 EDT