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Toyota and
Climate Change
Below are
extracts of letters between the car manufacturer Toyota and Peter Shullot about
climate change. The letters in full are at the bottom of the page. This is one
of 65 sets of letters so you can find out what your supermarket, energy supplier
and car manufacturer, and oil companies, airlines, house builders and other
companies really think about climate change. The name Peter Shullot is
made up – it is an anagram of The Polluters.
Toyota also owns Lexus
To
Hein Van
Gerwen, Managing Director –
What a pleasure it is to drive the Toyota Camry. It’s well put together, it’s
quiet, it’s well-priced. I don’t understand why it’s not more popular in this
country. As your slogan says,
Today Tomorrow Toyota.
Just
because the car is American is no reason not to buy it.
I’m concerned that you are making the Toyota Prius. Will low emission cars
become the norm? My worry is that you’re doing it because you are responding to
a scare about something that does not exist – namely, climate change. In the
past the scare has been global cooling; now it’s global warming. I don’t want to
see Toyota going down the wrong road because of unelected pressure groups
jumping up and down and looking for a bit of martyrdom. They’re only doing it as
a guise for their red agenda and to get in to the knickers of doe-eyed camp
followers.
Later letter to Toyota –
I like the advert when the woman crashes her boyfriend’s model plane. It has the
sign off – Yaris Treat it with respect. Perhaps you cold extend the same
courtesy to your customers.
I thought that Americans were known for their customer service and good manners,
but maybe not (anymore).
Sadly Toyota declined to reply
Letter to Toyota
Later letter to Toyota
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