TheDetroitBureau on Autoblog with Paul Eisenstein

February 4th, 2010 admin

Filed under: Recalls , Toyota We’re very pleased to announce that veteran automotive journalist and Publisher of TheDetroitBureau.com , Paul Eisenstein, has joined the Autoblog team as a Contributing Editor. His editorials will appear regularly on Autoblog, beginning with this one: Toyota: From “Benchmark” to “Troubled,” the Decline of an Icon It’s been said that when the gods want to punish a company, they first give it 40 years of success. Okay, we might quibble with the precise number, but that certainly seems to fit Toyota . Even with last year’s bankruptcy at General Motors providing perspective, it’s hard to find any more rapid fall from grace. It was just a year ago that the giant maker seemed to have everything going for it. It had toppled GM, the long-time automotive king-of-the-…


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