Toyota announced this morning that it is beginning another round of voluntary recalls, this one covering roughly 2 million more vehicles, for issues involving pedal entrapment. That’s the floor mat issue that causes accelerator pedals to stick in the “engaged” position. This recall includes models like the Toyota RAV4 and the Highlander, and brings the [...]
From Reuters: Toyota Motor Corp is having recall issues again. The Japanese automaker has announced it will be recalling more than 1.7 million vehicles around the world, bringing it’s total number of recalled unites to almost 16 million since late 2009. So much for attempts to improve quality. The current situation is, at least, different [...]
Automotive News reported on Monday that Toyota Motor Corp. had agreed to the payment of two more safety fines totaling $32.4 million, which is the maximum amount allowed by United States law. The fines represent the settlement of federal investigations into whether or not the automaker notified regulators of safety defects in a timely fashion. [...]
Reuters shared yesterday that roughly 650,000 Toyota Prius models with a coolant pump defect that could cause overheating and power loss will be repaired at the company’s expense. The repair campaign is for those cars from model years 2004-2007, and over half of them – roughly 378,000 – are in the United States. Evidently, the [...]
As a result of findings by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Honda has issued a recall on the 585 2010 Honda Elements already sold, and has issued a stop sale for the rest of the product. The recall is limited to Elements that rolled off the assembly line between April 1 and June 25, [...]