Swacer

Quite the month for Toyota....

1. A week out of service domestically due to Steel Shortages

2. Termination of the Scion brand.

I'm quite sad about the Scion brand as we owned a tC and loved the dang thing. Whats even more sad is they are rebadging ALL of them except the tC.

As for the steel shortage, yikes. There was discussion a while back that Toyota needed to consider surplus materials as compared to their current method, which is more like "parts on demand". My 4R squeaked through with a 2/1 build, but I was told that they are already cutting back on build numbers this week. So if any of you have a NX with a build date soon, hope you make the cut. I had a used 2014 GX on the back burner in case the 4R was delayed.

Thoughts?

5gears-IS

iTrader: (5)

The Scion termination has been proven to be a joke. A website that is down now was the culprit...

Mike728

Really?

http://pressroom.toyota.com/releases...ion+toyota.htm

bitkahuna

iTrader: (20)

a joke? proven? really? must be why toyota announced the end of scion with a press release.

http://pressroom.toyota.com/releases...ion+toyota.htm

it's everywhere in the news.

https://www.google.com/search?q=scio...&q=scion+brand

bitkahuna

iTrader: (20)

well, this seems to have been caused by a harder to plan for event, namely an explosion in the Japanese steel supplier plant.

http://www.autoblog.com/2016/02/01/t...teel-shortage/

it apparently doesn't affect toyota plants outside of japan.

Swacer

I'm not sure I understand why this was moved. I wanted it to be a discussion amongst the NX owners.

PhilipMSPT

iTrader: (5)

But your post had nothing NX-only specific...

spwolf

there was a lot of work at Toyota in past 4 years to prevent this from happening - to be able to source materials from several suppliers, after Thai floods.

Now apparently that was not enough or maybe 7 day shortage was not enough to get others into it. Toyota plans to recover the production by March 31st so it should not be more than 7 days.

jadu

iTrader: (42)

yep, very busy month. Someone is going to have to rebadge all those Scions on the dealership lot

Swacer

Why must it be NX specific to be discussed amongst those that you discuss NX stuff all day?

Swacer

Nothing will be rebadged at a dealership. the 2016 will carry scion and the 2017s will go down the line with Toyota badges

PhilipMSPT

iTrader: (5)

We wanna crash your party.

DaveGS4

iTrader: (2)

As you may have noticed, there is a week-long redirect that can draw anyone from the NX forum who cares to join in the conversation to this thread. It's a good topic, just isn't about the NX.

Simple fact is we try to keep CL well organized and have a ''home' for everything. Car chat is the clear place for this type of topic. Glad to discuss this further in PM if you like, let's let the thread get back on topic.

adpock

here's my take on the steel shortage...
https://www.clublexus.com/articles/t...-for-six-days/