New cars and trucks would be required to carry black boxes to record crash information and automakers would pay fees to help fund the government's auto safety agency under a series of proposals in Congress in response to Toyota's massive recalls. Complete Story...
Federal officials reportedly want to review a New Hampshire collision that killed four people, three in a Toyota Highlander.
The inspection of a Toyota Camry involved in a deadly crash that sent a St. Paul man to prison supports his claim he did all he could to try to stop before the 2006 collision that killed three people, attorneys and a participating expert said Wednesday.
Toyota will offer the same fix for stability control programming it has announced for the Lexus GX 460 in North America to vehicles in other regions, affecting 34,000 vehicles worldwide, the Japanese automaker said Tuesday.
Insurance companies are gearing up to recoup from Toyota money they paid for claims in crashes involving sudden acceleration, the subject of major safety recalls by the Japanese automaker. It could also mean money back for some drivers who paid deductibles.
Toyota hurriedly ordered recalls of nearly 10,000 Lexus SUVs for possible rollover dangers Monday and agreed to a record $16.4 million fine for a slow response in its broader earlier recall, scrambling to fix safety worries that threaten the Japanese auto giant's reputation.
There are few things auto buyers like more than incentives, but they are the profit-eating menace that helped drive two of Detroit’s Big Three makers into bankruptcy.
Toyota is testing all its sport utility vehicles to reassure buyers of their safety after Consumer Reports warned a large Lexus SUV is susceptible to rolling over.
NEW YORK - For its 15th consecutive year, NBC’s TODAY is bringing some of the biggest names in music to rock the Plaza, including Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber, Christina Aguilera and Carrie Underwood. This year's "Toyota Concert Series on TODAY" kicks off on May 14 with a performance by Sting.
Toyota Motor Corp. has suspended sales of the 2010 Lexus GX 460 after Consumer Reports warned car shoppers not to buy the sport utility vehicle because handling problems could cause them to roll over on sharp turns.
Toyota has routinely engaged in questionable, evasive and deceptive legal tactics when sued, frequently claiming it does not have information it is required to turn over and sometimes even ignoring court orders to produce key documents, an Associated Press investigation shows.
A federal judge in Southern California was chosen Friday to preside over more than 200 lawsuits filed against Toyota in the aftermath of the automaker's sudden acceleration problems, which could potentially mushroom into one of the nation's biggest product liability cases.
The government says in a letter to Toyota that it's considering a second civil penalty against the automaker.
Toyota will continue to offer most of its heavy incentives throughout April after the deals helped lift its sales more than 40 percent last month, the automaker said Tuesday.
Toyota's Prius hybrid was Japan's top-selling car in March for an 11th straight month despite global recall woes, an industry group said Tuesday.
California's sole auto plant shut down Thursday as the last car rolled off the assembly line and thousands of now unemployed workers walked out the doors, some crying.
Toyota says U.S. sales in March surged 41 percent, as unprecedented incentives sent customers flocking back to showrooms.
Toyota's sales surged 40 percent in March, a top company executive said Wednesday, as the automaker offered its biggest incentives ever to cope with the fallout of millions of recalls.
The North American branch of automaker Toyota Motor Corp. spent $1.4 million lobbying Congress and the federal government during the fourth quarter on issues related to distracted driving, consumer protections and patents, according to a recent filing.
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood says federal officials are poring over 70,000 documents related to Toyota safety problems and could find more lapses by the Japanese automaker.
Toyota promised to respond faster to customer complaints as it held its first meeting of a quality experts committee set up to help salvage a reputation battered by massive recalls and reports of runaway vehicles.
Toyota said Friday it is stopping production at its factories in France and Britain for a total of nine days amid falling sales that the company partly attributed to its recent recall woes.
Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox sent a subpoena to Toyota on Wednesday asking for records regarding sudden unintended acceleration and a fatal accident in Flint.
Attorneys for Toyota Motor Corp. and people suing the Japanese automaker over sudden acceleration problems urged a federal panel Thursday to consolidate more than 200 lawsuits before a single judge, with Los Angeles federal court emerging as the favored venue.
Timing is everything, the famous samurai Miyamoto Musashi wrote in his treatise on strategy "The Book of Five Rings."
Federal investigators have agreed to take a look at a Columbus Day crash in New Hampshire to see if it is connected to Toyota's sudden-acceleration problems.
Jurisdictional Branch is leading the aftermath of another too big to handle issue: electronics replacing mechanics in cars. This court process may let us know many truths, that otherwise would had been a media clash between interested parties.
Detroit, MI: Toyota has announced that is recalling 600,000 Sienna 1998-2010 Minivans due to a corrosion risk in the cable holding the spare tire. If the cable corrodes the tire could fall into the roadway in a worst case scenario, and create a traffic hazard.
Who will compromise with the safety?Simply halting production will not only affect sales of Lexus GX 460but also it will affect its reputation in US which will percolate every where.To quote:In the worst case, the carrier cable may fail and the spare tyre could become separated f …
First brakes, then rollovers and now corrosion. Whats going on with Toyota?
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Beleaguered Toyota temporarily suspended sales of its 2010 Lexus GX 460 after Consumer Reports magazine Tuesday flatly told shoppers "don't buy" the luxury SUV because a handling problem makes it unsafe.
This articles provides a lot more insight into the current quality issue at Toyota. Toyoda's apology now seems like a 'repudiation of predecssor's policy'. Then again, maybe a lot of apologies have a similar motivation.
A top House Republican is accusing the nation's top automobile regulator of playing politics with congressional oversight.
Well now I've seen everything, almost. But, it looks as though the U.S. tax-payers will be flipping the bill to have our brightest scientific minds at NASA [our space agency] try and diagnose the sudden acceleration problem in Toyota vehicles.
How many congressmen does it take to identify the cause of a runaway Toyota Prius? No, it's not a trick question.
NASA and the National Academy of Sciences are joining the government's effort to figure out what caused the sudden acceleration problems that led to Toyota's massive recalls.
SCOTTSDALE ARIZONA --The stock price of General Motors is around $.75. I got curious, so I looked it up. The price range has been $.75 - $18 recently. They’re planning a plant expansion in Brazil.
In automotive news today, forty-two year old Lois Baker of Columbus, Ohio has returned her new Toyota Prius to the dealership after four weeks because the gas pedal wouldn't stick. Ms. Baker stated that she had tried "every trick in the book" to make it stick, all to no avail.
LINCOLN, Neb. -- A researcher at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has a theory about the troubles facing Toyota. He thinks the safety issues plaguing the Japanese automaker may be related to cosmic rays.
It has been all over every bit of media possible about the runaway toyota in California. Reading from a Reuters report on March 15, and the information they received from Toyota, I think, in my opinion, Toyota is trying to kill us. Is PRIUS latin for PRI = kill and us = us??
Toyota has handed over to US lawmakers a 2006 letter written by Japanese employees warning that aggressive cost cuts had undermined the quality of its vehicles.
yota Motor Corp. (TM, 7203.TO) said there are "strong indications" that a dramatic incident on a California highway involving a Prius last week was inconsistent with the findings of the auto maker's preliminary analysis.
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I've been driving Toyota Priuses since 2001. As a junior defense lawyer in the mid-90s, I litigated a number of bogus sudden acceleration cases that were brought against General Motors.
The government may require automakers to include brake override systems, a fix intended to prevent the type of runaway car incidents that some Toyota drivers have described.
DETROIT — Federal safety regulators, who allowed auto companies to voluntarily install event data recorders on their vehicles a few years ago, are now looking into whether the systems should be required, the head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on Thu …
Toyota Motor Corp. set a 2010 goal of regaining most of the U.S. market share lost in the past two months after global recalls of 8 million vehicles damped demand, the No. 2 U.S. sales executive said.
Although it's scheduled to close at the end of the month, the NUMMI assembly plant -- previously home to a joint venture between Toyota and General Motors -- may be revived by , a start-up firm looking for a production base to build electric vehicles.
"Over the years, Toyota engineers have extensively tested our electronic throttle control system and have never confirmed a single case where the ETCS-i was the cause of unintended acceleration.