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Toyota conducts safety tests on all SUV models Toyota announced safety tests on all its sport-utility vehicle models in a sweeping effort Thursday to reassure buyers after Consumer Reports warned against buying the 2010 Lexus GX 460 in the automaker’s latest public relations debacle. Toyota Motor Corp., plagued by recalls since October and accusations it […]
U.S. weighs second penalty against Toyota Federal safety regulators find that ‘two separate defects’ exist in sticking accelerator pedals, but that the ongoing recall may address only one. Federal safety regulators are weighing a second penalty against Toyota Motor Corp. for its handling of the recall of 2.3 million cars and trucks with accelerator pedals […]
Toyota Exec Warned on Defect: “We Need to Come Clean” A senior Toyota Motor Corp <7203.T> executive in the United States warned in a January email that the automaker needed to “come clean” on a safety defect that caused accelerator pedals to become stuck open. The January 16 email from Irv Miller, then Toyota’s top […]
U.S. seeks $16.4 million fine against Toyota Federal safety agency hits Toyota with largest possible fine for a single reporting violation. More fines still possible. The Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is seeking the maximum fine of $16.4 million against Toyota Motor Corp. for failing to notify the agency of a “sticky […]