Toyota quality is slipping badly. This guy is not the only one to get a new lemon from Toyota. Even Consumer Reports which has been very pro-Toyota over the years has commented how quality and reliability is slipping away at Toyota.
Here's Business Week saying the same thing:
http://www.businessweek.com/autos/au...s_quality.html
Here's a Consumer Reports article on this topic:
http://www.autoobserver.com/2007/10/...er-report.html
There are many more instances of this (do a google search). If this trend continues then Toyota sales will dive in the future, when the masses figure out quality is seriously dropping (after-all quality is what most brought most buyer to Toyota in the first place).