F-Bomb Chrysler Tweeter Blames Tweetdeck

Holy crap thats funny. I hate Twitter with a passion anyways.
 
I love the headlines for this store. "Employee who posted obscene Twitter post..."

Obscene? Maybe it contained an obscenity, but I wouldn't consider, "[...]yet no one here knows how to f***ing drive" obscene.
 
I think they are confusing 'obscenity' with 'honesty', bonus points for speaking the truth.
 
Sooooo, he tweets about peoples driving ability, YET he tweets while he's driving? LOL! What a moron.
 
Lawsuit? For what? Slandering Detroit drivers? It's not like he uploaded his honeymoon video to a Hannah Montana Disney video site or something.
 
This would have been infinitely funnier if Steve had said "I smell a F*&@KIN lawsuit coming!" or words and bleeps to that effect... :D
 
SonicTron said:
Lawsuit? For what? Slandering Detroit drivers? It's not like he uploaded his honeymoon video to a Hannah Montana Disney video site or something.
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No, I think they mean he could sue tweetdeck because he deleted the Chrysler tweetdeck account and yet the post which was meant for his personal account still got posted to the supposedly deleted Chrysler account, which has cost him his job and livelihood. If it had posted to where it was supposed to post to he would never have lost his job. I think that's what they mean anyway.
 
Draax said:
Is it?
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I don't think so; US cars stagnated while the car companies from Korea and Japan continued to improve. Gas mileage was shit, and SUVs were the focus in the US. In terms of reliability and durability, US cars as of late have been not so good. And GM is horribly run - at least Ford didn't take any money from the Gov't. And Chrysler? They had to file chapter 11.
 
Having used to make 3 trips to Detroit every year, that guy is definately telling the truth. People in Detroit just can't frickin drive. They are horribly aggressive, and drive like they have no fear even when there is 8-12 inches of snow on the ground.
 
rampantandroid said:
I don't think so; US cars stagnated while the car companies from Korea and Japan continued to improve. Gas mileage was shit, and SUVs were the focus in the US. In terms of reliability and durability, US cars as of late have been not so good. And GM is horribly run - at least Ford didn't take any money from the Gov't. And Chrysler? They had to file chapter 11.
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My current 2004 Grand Marquis has had minor issues already resolved through dealership warranty. In the time I've owned it, Toyota has recalled over 7 million vehicles between Toyota and Lexus models. I don't think 7 million vehicles have been recalled between the Big Three under all their brands combined.

You can keep your imports, sir. The only thing I do agree with you is that GM is horribly run and is out to fuck over its workers and retirees. My girlfriend's dad is a former plant boss for GM. He got screwed hard out of his retirement.
 
Every company has had it's recalls. My experience here is tainted by my 2004 Ford Focus having a defect where the caliper for the front disc breaks not being greased correctly at the factory; the end result was that my inner pads wore down to metal on metal; my outer pads were brand new. In ONE YEAR. The breaks screeched from day one out of the factory, so I thought nothing of it.

And then...to add insult to injury - and I thankfully mean injury in a figurative sense, had the breaks gone another week I would mean injury in a very literal sense - I'd had a break fluid flush done 3 weeks prior to discovering the break pad issues. 3 weeks prior. At a Ford dealer. They acted all offended when I brought the fact that my brakes were dangerously low and they had failed to let me know to light.

That same car? Long cranks all the time. Bad security system would prevent the car from starting sometimes. And those are two SEPARATE issues. ABS died within 4 years. The long cranks were never fixed; the car had the solenoid replaced, battery replaced, starter replaced (again), the control system reprogrammed 50 times over....everything. The car was in the dealer over 30 times for this to be fixed. NEVER was it fixed.

Finally dumped the Ford last year for a TSX, never looked back. I'm done with Ford, I'm done with US cars - the other Fords my parents owned have been as problematic (Escort, Taurus - one of them had to have the lemon law used on it.)

So do I hate American cars? Yeah. My TSX is trouble free. My brothers Hyundai is trouble free. My mother's Camry...is trouble free - and it did have the recall on it.
 
Can people drive correctly anywhere? Not here that's for sure. My street is 30mph and residential but people drive so fast it sounds like a drag race. It is 7:35am right now and I can hear the wind endlessly wooshing by as people speed off to work and burn their $3.69/gallon gasoline faster than they need to, then they complain about it. I get a daily laugh every time I hear the police siren chirp. I know that's one more ticket to one more driver who isn't paying attention well enough to see the obvious police motorcycles and cars lined on the side of the road. All just 100 feet from an elementary school.
 
GoodBoy said:
Lawsuit? Nah, he will just get fired.
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He already did. He was fired the moment Chrysler his tweet and reported it.

SamuraiInBlack said:
My current 2004 Grand Marquis has had minor issues already resolved through dealership warranty. In the time I've owned it, Toyota has recalled over 7 million vehicles between Toyota and Lexus models. I don't think 7 million vehicles have been recalled between the Big Three under all their brands combined.

You can keep your imports, sir. The only thing I do agree with you is that GM is horribly run and is out to fuck over its workers and retirees. My girlfriend's dad is a former plant boss for GM. He got screwed hard out of his retirement.
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Toyota had to recall all of those cars because the government forced them too. There was hearing and all that shit to put them out on a limb with a rope. And you know what they did the recall and tons of testing and found NO PROBLEM. There never was some huge issue where the cars would go out of control or anything, everything was fine. The ONLY problem was the floor mate issue that was it. They even shown that that one of of the stories about malfunction that was all over the news was a fake, the guy lied about his probablem with his car. During that time that they were making a huge deal about Toyota having to recall cars GM was recalling some cars due to actual probllems. my GM car which is an 09 has had 3 recalls and is only an 09. 1 of which should have been done years ago as i know somebody that had to have that problem fixed in their car 3 times in a year.

So nice try there trying to bash Toyota. Too bad as somebody else pointed out Ford had to have a large recall like that before and for an actual problem not an a madeup one that might have been a glitch with 4 or 5 cars and the lied about occuring to others just to force a massive recall.
 
rampantandroid said:
I don't think so; US cars stagnated while the car companies from Korea and Japan continued to improve. Gas mileage was shit, and SUVs were the focus in the US. In terms of reliability and durability, US cars as of late have been not so good. And GM is horribly run - at least Ford didn't take any money from the Gov't. And Chrysler? They had to file chapter 11.
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SUVs is what people wanted to buy, even up to $3.50 gas. Its only after that the market changed. Quality caught up in the 90's, styling in the last decade so you're making statements not on recent perception.

Ford took on a pile of debt in 2006 to survive when the economy was good and the car market hadn't crashed yet. GM needed the car market to crash before they needed drastic measures. Unfortunately the private credit market had taken a dump too forcing them to seek help from the government. If Ford had held onto 2008, they would have had tin cup in had in Washington with the other two.

As for Chrysler, they got screwed over by Mercedes. Mercedes not only mismanaged them, they sucked them dry of capital which was their primary purpose for acquiring Chrysler. Chrysler in the Mid-90's before the Mercedes takeover had built a 'rainy day' fund that was 50% bigger than the bailout money they were given from Washington. It was there for that purpose. When Mercedes took over they raided that account almost immediately on put it Mercedes pocket with the exception being big bonuses to the executives and shareholders who sold out Chrysler. They proceeded to force Chrysler to buy parts form Mercedes and through Mercedes which took a cut, so Chrysler's debt was in part a transfer of capital to Mercedes. Why anyone took Chrysler off Mercedes hands was beyond me. But Mercedes got cold hard cash out of Chrysler when they needed it and after it was an empty husk capital-wise they ditched it.
 
Out of the three Chrysler is my least favorite. I use to be on the Asian car bandwagon, loved my 02 Subaru Forester, but after Toyota blatantly sweeping legitimate issues under the rug, and just the fact that Ford's vehicles went from ugly as sin to damn sexy in the past few years. I ended up with a low mileage 08 Edge and it's been serving me damn well, the Forester really has nothing on it other than better gas mileage.

I wouldn't have bought an American car if the information wasn't out there, yes they caught up in everything else but design, now their kicking ass their too. I still think most Asian companies outside of Toyota have and continue to also improve and make a great product, but really they all do for the most part now.
 
Derfman said:
Out of the three Chrysler is my least favorite. I use to be on the Asian car bandwagon, loved my 02 Subaru Forester, but after Toyota blatantly sweeping legitimate issues under the rug, and just the fact that Ford's vehicles went from ugly as sin to damn sexy in the past few years. I ended up with a low mileage 08 Edge and it's been serving me damn well, the Forester really has nothing on it other than better gas mileage.
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Isn't comparing an 02 to an 08 kinda slanted?

As for Chrysler... minus their top end cars... all of them have been poorly built for ages. The only thing that saved that company in 2000 was the PT Cruiser body shape. w/o that and a few other 'specialty cars', the company was barely kept afloat till the 2008 'nose' dive.
 
djgizmo said:
Isn't comparing an 02 to an 08 kinda slanted?

As for Chrysler... minus their top end cars... all of them have been poorly built for ages. The only thing that saved that company in 2000 was the PT Cruiser body shape. w/o that and a few other 'specialty cars', the company was barely kept afloat till the 2008 'nose' dive.
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I'm sorry I forgot to mentioned I test drove a new Forester XT before the edge. To be fair I couldn't have afforded either car if they were new. But the edge has a more responsive engine, is slightly more comfortable, lots of room, and it drives like a champ. The XT was nice but it didn't bring much more to the table then my old forester did.
 
Im just gonna stay calm and polite with all the Mopar bashing going around and just say to each their own. Every major car manufacture has had a bad rep at one time or another. And when the economic crisis hit, some companies were badly mistreated. All I know is, the current car generation from all companies look awesome. And I'm glad to see more outside the box thinking is happening.
 
rampantandroid said:
I don't think so; US cars stagnated while the car companies from Korea and Japan continued to improve. Gas mileage was shit, and SUVs were the focus in the US. In terms of reliability and durability, US cars as of late have been not so good.
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You may have a point about short term reliability, but I see a lot more American cars from before 1980 than I do Japanese cars from before 1990, and I'm fairly certain there were quite a few Japanese cars sold in the 80s.
 
DocSavage said:
You may have a point about short term reliability, but I see a lot more American cars from before 1980 than I do Japanese cars from before 1990, and I'm fairly certain there were quite a few Japanese cars sold in the 80s.
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harder to get parts for maybe? I know that I used to always hear never buy a "foreign" car as you can't get parts for them and can't find anyone that can work on them.

Of course once the foreign cars started to be made in america with American made parts that changed for parts. But maybe is that true for the older ones? Do you have a harder time find somebody to work on them and find parts?

I know that Toyota had a commerical where they claimed that 80% of the cars that they sold in that last 20 years are still on the road. Of course how many of that 80% are closer to the 20 year mark. I was trying to find some numbers of what car has the most on the road. Didnt' find any numbers but found a good joke about ford.

90% of the Ford trucks sold in the last 20 years are still on the road.




The other 10% were able to get towed home. :D
 
DocSavage said:
You may have a point about short term reliability, but I see a lot more American cars from before 1980 than I do Japanese cars from before 1990, and I'm fairly certain there were quite a few Japanese cars sold in the 80s.
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I've seen plenty of old Corollas and some old Geo Prizms (rebranded Corollas)...but you're right, I see more old boats than I do small japanese cars. I think it's only been the past 20 years that Japenese cars have improved a lot.
 
I have worked with Canadians/Americans, Koreans, and Vietnamese in a manufacturing setting. When the break bell rang the Vietnamese, and to a lesser extent the Koreans, did not go for break until what they were working on was complete. The Canadians and Americans had already stopped working a good 5 minutes before the bell went. We had to force the Vietnamese to take their vacation days, even holidays, whereas the North Americans were always asking for time off.

Who do you want making your vehicle?
 
Draax said:
I have worked with Canadians/Americans, Koreans, and Vietnamese in a manufacturing setting. When the break bell rang the Vietnamese, and to a lesser extent the Koreans, did not go for break until what they were working on was complete. The Canadians and Americans had already stopped working a good 5 minutes before the bell went. We had to force the Vietnamese to take their vacation days, even holidays, whereas the North Americans were always asking for time off.

Who do you want making your vehicle?
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Companies have their manufacturing done in those countries because it's cheaper, not because the quality is better or because they get gold stars for working harder.

If you get fired over there, your $2 a day no longer feeds your kids, so you better work your ass off. It's a little different.
 
Why did he get fired over this? The whole damn country can't drive. I'm pretty sure over 50% of the drivers in this country don't know what their fucking signals are for anway.
 
Exavior said:
He already did. He was fired the moment Chrysler his tweet and reported it.



Toyota had to recall all of those cars because the government forced them too. There was hearing and all that shit to put them out on a limb with a rope. And you know what they did the recall and tons of testing and found NO PROBLEM. There never was some huge issue where the cars would go out of control or anything, everything was fine. The ONLY problem was the floor mate issue that was it. They even shown that that one of of the stories about malfunction that was all over the news was a fake, the guy lied about his probablem with his car. During that time that they were making a huge deal about Toyota having to recall cars GM was recalling some cars due to actual probllems. my GM car which is an 09 has had 3 recalls and is only an 09. 1 of which should have been done years ago as i know somebody that had to have that problem fixed in their car 3 times in a year.

So nice try there trying to bash Toyota. Too bad as somebody else pointed out Ford had to have a large recall like that before and for an actual problem not an a madeup one that might have been a glitch with 4 or 5 cars and the lied about occuring to others just to force a massive recall.
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It's not a bash when it's true. They did the recalls, did they not? Obviously there is a problem if there is a recall. And even if its just floormats, that's shitty engineering, sir. At least a recall from Ford is an actual issue, and not because Toyota doesn't want to spend 5 cents a car to put in a floormat hook to keep it in place. Again, I'll take my Grand Marquis that's solid as a rock over a Toyota that is defeated by floormats.
 
Draax said:
I have worked with Canadians/Americans, Koreans, and Vietnamese in a manufacturing setting. When the break bell rang the Vietnamese, and to a lesser extent the Koreans, did not go for break until what they were working on was complete. The Canadians and Americans had already stopped working a good 5 minutes before the bell went. We had to force the Vietnamese to take their vacation days, even holidays, whereas the North Americans were always asking for time off.

Who do you want making your vehicle?
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Sure dude, the only reason the Vietnamese and Koreans did that is because they probably felt intimidated at losing their crap low paying jobs if they didn't lick the managements boots.
No one, and I mean no one, enjoys working on an assembly line like a droid.
 
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