So Jack Roush doesn’t like that Toyota has entered the Cup series. We all know that. But now he’s starting to sound like a crazy old man.
Roush said he’s “preparing myself for siege.” But he wasn’t done there. He also said, “I expect to hand Toyota their head over the short term.” And if that wasn’t enough, he added, “We’re going to go to war with them, and they should give us their best shot.”
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Someone should tell old Jack to chillax. And can we leave the war analogies out of this, please? What’s next, Jack? Gonna drop a figurative atomic bomb on them?
Roush has also said that he thinks Americans shouldn’t buy foreign cars. I bet he has no problem with people in other countries buying American cars. Wait, do people in other countries buy American cars? General Motors is the top automaker in the world so they have to sell cars in other countries, right?
Dale Jarrett came back at Roush with this statement, “We could get into the argument about where the Ford Fusion is built; every one of them are built in Mexico. The Monte Carlos are built in Canada.
“So we could go through all that stuff and see who is right and who is wrong. But there are a lot of Toyotas that are built in the United States. They employ a lot of people.”
Roush called it spin. Spin, truth, tomato, to-mah-to.
I just love it that someone during the NASCAR media tour asked him why he’s so scared.
“Did I say I was scared?,” Roush responded.
Sounds scared to me.
Every time I hear someone complain about Toyota I become more and more a fan of the Toyota drivers.
Too bad they’re probably going to stink it up for a while.
I believe Jack’s comments, though indirect, were pointed more at the US car manufacturers to emphasize to them the need to pony up more dollars and match the Toyota money behemoth that they’re pouring into the sport. One of the US car owners recently stated that his salary expense has increased by a million dollars per year as a result of Toyota wooing NASCAR employee talent with the offer of big bucks.
I believe Toyota rules the NASCAR Truck series and the US Cup owners are sensing an eventual Toyota dominance/force in their series.
— Jon 01/26/2007 07:52 AM #
Good comments all, Jaynelle. I think I’d forgotten to blogroll you—but I’m about to correct that. Cheers!
— Stephen Shores 01/26/2007 09:31 AM #
Jaynelle, your anti-Roush bias has reached a new low.
— Matt 01/26/2007 10:57 AM #
I don’t see how calling him out for extremely inappropriate comparisons of NASCAR to war is biased or low but you are entitled to your opinion, my friend.
— Jaynelle 01/26/2007 11:04 AM #
I don’t care that you’re calling him out, but you’re taking part of his quotes and using them out of context. That’s just as much spin as you claim Jack uses.
— Matt 01/26/2007 12:42 PM #
Saying something was taken out of context is kind of a cop out. Someone either said something or they didn’t. It’s very hard to present someone’s statements in such a twisted way that it completely changes the meaning of what they were saying. It's possible, yes, but very difficult. I don’t see in what context “We’re going to war with them” could be an OK statement given the times we live in.
— Mark 01/26/2007 03:33 PM #
It’s called an analogy, Mark.
— Matt 01/26/2007 05:05 PM #
An analogy is, according to dictionary.com, “a similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based.” So NASCAR and war are comparable? Hardly.
— Mark 01/26/2007 07:35 PM #
Sports and many other professions use “war” rhetoric. Each team in the NFL uses a “war room” to decide which players they take. I could go all day. If you’re worried that much about what Jack Roush says concerning Toyota that it compells you to look things up, you must not have enough problems of your own. I highly doubt there are that many people that think “oh my god Jack Roush said war he is a doodoohead.” Give me a break.
— Matt 01/26/2007 11:58 PM #
The “everybody else is doing it so that means it’s OK” argument is a bit childish.
— Maurene 01/27/2007 03:02 PM #
Roush…more like douche, right?
— subroc 02/13/2007 05:57 PM #
I believe Toyota rules the NASCAR Truck series and the US Cup owners are sensing an eventual Toyota dominance/force in their series.
— Jon 01/26/2007 07:52 AM #
— Stephen Shores 01/26/2007 09:31 AM #
— Matt 01/26/2007 10:57 AM #
— Jaynelle 01/26/2007 11:04 AM #
— Matt 01/26/2007 12:42 PM #
— Mark 01/26/2007 03:33 PM #
— Matt 01/26/2007 05:05 PM #
— Mark 01/26/2007 07:35 PM #
— Matt 01/26/2007 11:58 PM #
— Maurene 01/27/2007 03:02 PM #
— subroc 02/13/2007 05:57 PM #