The Climate, Environment and Energy Thread

[kruddler]

Toyota have just received an award from Greenpeace down under....for being the No 1 anti environmental car maker based on their opposition to climate action and highly polluting hybrids. World wide they have ranked just below by Exon, Mobil and Chevron for their negative lobbying for pollution standards on cars.
Goes against the Toyota marketing spin of being greener than most and having the most trust in Australia, not sure who to believe or what criteria Greenpeace have used and comparisons etc but its not a great look.
Mazda rumored to be boning their 2 litre engine they use on their base model CX5, CX3 and some other model and making customers upgrade to the 2.5 for an extra 5k.....
More frightening is the emergence of MG reaching 7th position in the top ten sales figures, thats ahead now of Subaru and Nissan who should be mighty worried. One new car in every 22 now being sold in Aus is an MG........Mò lǐsī chēkù.....thats Morris Garage in Chinese, be more than a few car companies worried about the rise of the SAIC group and its obvious they will improve heir position given their pricing and ability to offer a lot of choice in models especially EV's. Toyota still comfortably leads the pack but the other car makes would be looking over their shoulder...

Toyota are having all sorts of issues that will hurt them long term.
Apparantly they are struggling to get microchips for their GPS/Displays. They will be (if they are not already) selling cars without said systems in place and customers will have to get them retrofitted once they become available. Would you buy a new car if it didn't come with GPS, Reversing cameras, DAB etc.

Some models will be waiting 18months before it comes with all the bells and whistles promised.
Not sure how well their sales will be going with those kind of delays.