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Originally Posted by Ryephile
While I appreciate Leeky being there and sharing his experience, I also feel bad that Toyota PR took advantage of him and fed him rather fantastic "truths". I'm sure the communication he was given weren't outright lies, but lacked significant context, being massively misleading. This is how PR and marketing effectively work, unfortunately. The article from the significantly more seasoned [and jaded] TTAC staff shows that a healthy dose of experience with PR slime helps temper the misleading path the PR people lead you down. I'm sure Toyota PR carefully crafted the plan to have a media virgin from the forum play excited messenger to the fan base. It did work, but IMO it also backfired by assuming everyone here is naive. |
Could be his translator girl, too. I do conversational English language instruction once a week here with Japanese ESL students.
What I've learned:
A) Japanese women have little interest in automotive stuff. (Everyone's shocked, I know...)
B) Technical stuff doesn't translate easily.
C) Japanese don't often stop me and ask for clarifications, usually just nod and agree when they don't understand something I say. I have to catch that they are not getting something myself, and back up.
So put A + B + C and you don't have the best starting point for a good translation about cars, especially for a super-pumped, hyper-stimulated car fan.
It's also possible his translator was having difficulty keeping up. So the info may have been 'lagging'. There were LFA's there, and they may have been talking about them or the tech. Maybe some comparisons between both, and the translator couldn't keep up, or mixed up some info.
I don't think it was deliberate.