# Toyota picks Canada over South US - says South is illiterate **URL:** \ **Category:** Canada Nissan Off Topic\ **Created:** [August 8, 2005, 9:55pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/toyota-picks-canada-over-south-us-says-south-is-illiterate/139730 "2005-08-08T21:55:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![winstonsmith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b77776/32.png) [@winstonsmith](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/winstonsmith)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2005, 9:55pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/toyota-picks-canada-over-south-us-says-south-is-illiterate/139730/1 "2005-08-08T21:55:40Z")
If you live in the southeastern US you might find this offensive. If you live anywhere else you might find this funny. Toyota is building a new plant and chose Canada even though several southeastern states in the US like Mississippi and Alabama offered way more financial incentive for Toyota to build there. Toyota’s response was that Canada’s workforce was more skilled and more easliy trainable whereas workers in the southeast US were typically uneducated and illiterate and some even needed pictures to explain how to run the machines. Toyota claims they are learning from the mistakes of Honda and Nissan about building cars in that area. [http://www.cbc.ca/cp/business/050630/b0630102.html](http://www.cbc.ca/cp/business/050630/b0630102.html) ---
**Author:** ![SRBURG13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc29f/32.png) [@SRBURG13](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/SRBURG13)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2005, 10:43pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/toyota-picks-canada-over-south-us-says-south-is-illiterate/139730/2 "2005-08-08T22:43:43Z")
Hahahhaha, that is AWESOME!!! I love it. ---
**Author:** ![LeRenard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d78d45/32.png) [@LeRenard](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LeRenard)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2005, 11:01pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/toyota-picks-canada-over-south-us-says-south-is-illiterate/139730/3 "2005-08-08T23:01:39Z")
that is hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![Jay\_Nismo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c37758/32.png) [@Jay\_Nismo](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jay_Nismo)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2005, 12:11am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/toyota-picks-canada-over-south-us-says-south-is-illiterate/139730/4 "2005-08-09T00:11:00Z")
LMAO!! ---
**Author:** ![1mns13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/8491ac/32.png) [@1mns13](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/1mns13)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2005, 5:52am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/toyota-picks-canada-over-south-us-says-south-is-illiterate/139730/5 "2005-08-09T05:52:42Z")
You cain’t draw a better picksure than that??? ---
**Author:** ![D-Roc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@D-Roc](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/D-Roc)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 12:24pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/toyota-picks-canada-over-south-us-says-south-is-illiterate/139730/6 "2005-08-19T12:24:34Z")
just the southern states? more like the entire country lol hicks ---
**Author:** ![New\_Direction](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7c8e57/32.png) [@New\_Direction](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/New_Direction)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2005, 12:36am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/toyota-picks-canada-over-south-us-says-south-is-illiterate/139730/7 "2005-08-20T00:36:33Z")
> [@D-Roc](#): > > just the southern states? more like the entire country lol hicks Easy there buddy…some of us “hicks” on here are American 😉 ---
**Author:** ![D-Roc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@D-Roc](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/D-Roc)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2005, 12:48pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/toyota-picks-canada-over-south-us-says-south-is-illiterate/139730/8 "2005-08-20T12:48:34Z")
touché :drinkers: