Toyota Accelerator

Why Toyota Has a Whisker Across Its Bumper

Sean Kane | Posted 03.28.2012

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Toyota's problem is that it has treated unintended acceleration in its vehicles as a public relations dilemma, rather than a technical issue.

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Scientists Debate If Another Culprit Triggered Toyota's Sudden Acceleration Problem: Tin Whiskers

HuffingtonPost.com | Sharon Silke Carty | Posted 01.23.2012

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Even as Toyota has reckoned with a wrenching crisis of confidence, acknowledging reports that some of its best-selling vehicles have been prone to acc...

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Koua Fong Lee, Toyota Defense Driver, Will Go Free

AP | MARTIGA LOHN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Toyota Lawsuits, Toyota Recall, Toyota Crash, Kuoa Fong Lee, Toyota Defense, Toyota Accelerator, Business News

ST. PAUL, Minn. — A Minnesota man who spent more than 2 1/2 years in prison for a fatal Toyota crash walked free Thursday, after a judge ordered...

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Initial Government Probe Finds Toyota Problems Limited To Accelerator Pedals

Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON (AP, KEN THOMAS) -- A government investigation into runaway Toyotas has found no new safety defects beyond problems with accelerator pedals...

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Toyota Lawsuits: Automaker Responds With 'Questionable, Evasive And Deceptive' Legal Tactics

AP | CURT ANDERSON and DANNY ROBBINS | Posted 05.25.2011

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MIAMI — Toyota has routinely engaged in questionable, evasive and deceptive legal tactics when sued, frequently claiming it does not have inform...

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Toyota Pedal Warning Sent To Europe Europeans Warned of Toyota Pedals Before US

AP | LARRY MARGASAK and KEN THOMAS | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Five days before Toyota announced a massive recall, a U.S. public relations executive at the automaker warned colleagues in an inte...

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NASA Joining Toyota Recall Investigation

AP | KEN THOMAS | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — NASA and the National Academy of Sciences are joining the government's effort to figure out what caused the sudden acceleration pro...

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Toyota Crash Warning Sent To Dealers In 2007

Bernie Woodall, Soyoung Kim and Kevin Krolicki | Posted 05.25.2011

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DETROIT (Reuters) - When Toyota Motor Corp concluded that seemingly harmless floormats posed a danger in all of its cars and trucks, the automaker sen...

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Toyota Recall: How Much Will It End Up Costing The Automaker?

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Toyota, Akio Toyoda, Toyota Prius, Toyota Accelerator, Toyota Sales, Toyota Earnings, Toyota Recall Costs, Toyota Stock, Business News

TOKYO -- (By TOMOKO A. HOSAKA, AP) A massive global recall, mounting legal bills and a battered reputation add up to a very expensive problem for Toyo...

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First Toyota Lawsuits Head To Court

AP | GREG RISLING | Posted 05.25.2011

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SANTA ANA, Calif. — Dozen of lawyers spoke glowingly about their courtroom credentials Thursday as they tried to persuade a federal judge to giv...

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Toyota Recall Class-Action Lawsuits Could Cost The Automaker $3 BILLION

AP | CURT ANDERSON and GREG BLUESTEIN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Toyota Gas Pedal Problems, Toyota Lawsuits, Toyota Recall, Toyota Class-Action Lawsuit, Nhts, Toyota Accelerator, Business News

MIAMI — Toyota owners claiming that massive safety recalls are causing the value of their vehicles to plummet have filed at least 89 class-actio...

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Toyota's Tips: What To Do If Your Car Suddenly Accelerates

AP | By The Associated Press | Posted 05.25.2011

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What should you do if your car suddenly accelerates? Here are three ways to stop the vehicle, according to Toyota: _ Step on the brake pedal with b...

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Koua Fong Lee: 'Toyota Defense' May Free Jailed Minnesota Man

AP | STEVE KARNOWSKI | Posted 05.25.2011

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LINO LAKES, Minn. — Ever since his 1996 Toyota Camry shot up an interstate ramp, plowing into the back of an Oldsmobile in a horrific crash that...

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Toyota Recall: Automaker Delayed And Gave Excuses, Gas Pedal Problems First Noticed In 2003

Huffington Post | Ryan McCarthy | Posted 05.25.2011

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The recall of nearly 8 million Toyota vehicles was years in the making and was complicated by excuses offered to regulators and by delay tactics emplo...

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Toyota is the New Tiger Woods

Nathan Harden | Posted 05.25.2011

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America sits shaken, stirred and -- once again -- overwhelmed by obsessive news consumption as it watches the perfect golden boy fall from its perch as the world's number one.

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Toyota Recall: How Toyota's US Workers Are Dealing With Down Time

McClatchy | Scott Sloan | Lexington Herald | Posted 05.25.2011

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Workers affected by the idling had the option of taking paid vacation or unpaid leave, but the vast majority came to work, with many taking training s...

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Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda To Speak About Company Woes

AP | YURI KAGEYAMA and MALCOLM FOSTER | Posted 05.25.2011

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TOKYO — Toyota's president emerged from seclusion Friday to apologize and address criticism that the automaker mishandled a crisis over sticking...

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Steve Wozniak's Prius Problems: Apple Co-Founder Thinks Software Is To Blame For Toyota Problem

Huffington Post / AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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Steve Wozniak's Toyota Prius has an acceleration problem, according to the Apple co-founder. And Wozniak believes it has something to do with the vehi...

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Toyota Suspends Sales Of 8 Vehicle Models (LIST)

AP | KEN THOMAS | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Toyota suspended U.S. sales of some of its most popular vehicles – including the best-selling car in America, the Camry &ndas...

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