While we wait for Toyota's response to news on the Prius' emergingpedal problems, here's the automaker's reply to U.S. Secretary ofTransportation LaHood comment for Toyota owners not to drive their recalled vehicles: ...
Japanese authorities have ordered Toyota to investigate the brakes in the Prius ... Japan Tells Toyota to Test Prius Brakes for Defect - NYTimes.com ... NAGOYA, Japan — The Japanese government said Wednesday that it had ordered Toyota to investigate a possible defect in its newest Prius hybrid model after receiving 14 reports of brake trouble, another blow for an automaker already embroiled in its biggest-ever recall. Complaints mount about Prius brakes - Feb. 3, 2010 ... In the U.S., more
No impact on foreign oil dependence for 2 decades? ... For several years now, Toyota has sold more than 100,000 Prius hybrids per year in the US. In fact, Toyota has sold more than 1 million hybrid cars in the US alone ... Yet, what effect have one million hybrids had on US foreign oil dependence? None ... Soon, GM will launch the highly-anticipated Chevy Volt, yet it might be a decade before GM is selling 100,000 Volts per year ... Likewise, late this year Nissan will begin US production of the
In the past no one took much notice of a government department starting an investigation into a specific defect, but because of the heightened attention to the recent Toyota recall, we’re seeing more of it. Today the National Highway Traffic ...
Funky brakes ... Glad I don't own any shares of Toyota! As if the current recalls aren't bad enough, another could be in the works, this time on Toyota's ever more important Toyota Prius ... Toyota has received about 100 complaints about brakes on the third generation Prius. In most of these incidents Prius drivers complained that the brakes were "not so sharp", especially on bumpy or frozen roads ... Thus far Toyota has sold more than 1.6 million Prius hybrids and almost 90 percent of Prius
Toyota’s popular Prius – in many ways the company’s flagship model – has been insulated from the automaker’s massive unintended acceleration recall, but now the hybrid is undergoing scrutiny over a brake-related issue that has been blamed in at least one wreck in Japan. Meanwhile, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak says his 2010 Prius has a [ ... ] ...
Auto makers worldwide have learned during this so-called Great Recession is that it is better to play nice with each other. Companies that used to be major rivals in the past have partnered up todevelop new technologies ...
Because thwacking Toyota is like, the totally cool thing to do, Japan wants the company to investigate whether or not the brakes on the 2010 Toyota Prius are malfunctioning after 14 separate incidents in the last two months ... Despite everything going on with Toyota, and all the apparent reticence on their part to address safety issues, it's important to recognize investigations happen all the time. Still, it's not going to be a good day for the company as The Daily Show just launched their