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Takata Airbag Recall Expands Dramatically

Today, the NHTSA ordered that the Takata airbag recall expand from approximately 29 million vehicles to add another 35 to 40 million more. There are so many vehicles now included...

Toyota Proposes $1.4 Billion Unintended Acceleration Settlement

Remember the Toyota unintended acceleration crisis of 2009-2010?  I'm sure Toyota hasn't forgotten it. Nearly every model in the company's lineup was recalled to replace floor...

Feds Find No Defects in Toyota’s Electronic Throttles

By Chris Haak So, it was about the floormats and pedals after all. More than a year after Toyota's reputation for quality and safety was damaged by a tsunami of recalls (18...

2010 US Auto Sales May Indicate Brighter 2011

By Chris Haak The December 2010 US auto sales are in the books, and it was a pretty solid month overall, unless you work for Toyota.  Overall, industry light-vehicle sales were...

Vehicle Safety Bill Moves Toward Senate Vote

By Chris Haak In response to the Toyota recall crisis and the subsequent furor over when vehicles should be recalled, how large fines for deliberate noncompliance should be, a...

Recall Watch: Toyota Recalls 870,000 Sienna Minivans

By Chris Haak News hit the wire tonight that Toyota is recalling some 600,000 two wheel drive Sienna minivans in the US and another 270,000 in Canada, covering model years 1998...

Released Toyota Memo Boasts of $100 Million Savings from Delaying Recall

From the "never say things can't get any worse" file, news came out over the past weekend that a PowerPoint presentation with the name of Toyota's US chief, Yoshimi Inaba, on...

Toyota to Announce a Large Prius Recall

By Chris Haak 02.09.2010 Battered and bruised Toyota is preparing to take another blow to it's chin.  The company's pride and joy, the Prius hybrid - its halo car - is set to...

Washington Turns Up the Heat on Toyota

Perhaps it's a case of kicking a company while it's down, perhaps it's a case of political grandstanding, or perhaps it's a case of genuine concern for the safety of Toyota owners...

Toyota Recall Fallout Continues; Solution May be Coming

We've already published several articles on the topic, but Toyota's massive recall and its related public-relations debacle continues to gain momentum.  In addition to the recent...