Toyota - Lexus Floor Mat Recall - Stuck Accelerator Lawsuit News

Lexus to Recall S.U.V. in Another Black Mark to Reputation
-The New York Times
04/21/2010 - Toyota has added another model to its long list of recalls, just hours after agreeing to pay the largest fine ever imposed by the government against an automaker. Toyota said that it would recall the Lexus GX 460 and the Land Cruiser Prado, which is sold abroad, to fix a problem with its stability control system that was first disclosed last week by Consumer Reports magazine. The recall covers 34,000 vehicles worldwide — of which 9,400 units are in the United States, Toyota said Tuesday from its Japanese headquarters. More>>>

Rocket Scientists Brought In To Investigate Runaway Toyotas
-Technorati
03/31/2010 - We were just mentioning that Toyota's "sudden unintended acceleration" problems are helping to bring the criticality of embedded systems to the general public's attention. Well, now NASA is going to dig its spacey claws into the controversy. The federal inquiry into the cause of the acceleration issues that led to the recall of more than eight million cars worldwide has found the matter so flummoxing that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has asked NASA scientists to help out with the investigation. More>>>

Toyotas Acceleration Issue Due to Electronics, Experts Say
-BIN
03/30/2010 - After recalling over 8 million vehicles worldwide, Toyota Motor Corp. has been on a PR campaign to repair its reputation as well as repair mechanical issues related to sudden acceleration in its vehicles. But a panel of electrical engineers say that the issue lies in electronics, not mechanical parts, and that Toyota is taking the wrong approach in its investigations, according to a March 23 news conference in Washington. More>>>

Toyota’s Prius plague persists
-Nowt News
03/29/2010 - In a Thursday memo to their North American dealers and factory authorized service centers, Japanese Toyota officials agreed to complete accelerator replacements for Prius customers who complain of persistent problems even after qualified mechanics perform the standard recall adjustments. Nationwide, well over 100 Prius owners have reported “unintended acceleration” incidents after certified maintenance personnel completed recall adjustments intended to prevent sudden and uncontrolled acceleration. More>>>

Timeline: Toyota warned of floormat risk since 2007
-Reuters
03/25/2010 - Before launching a full-blown recall in November 2009 to fix the pedal, Toyota had warned dealers in 2007 -- and again in 2008 -- of the risk floormats could jam accelerators open and cause accidents on a broad range of its Toyota and Lexus vehicles. Following are several notices Toyota had issued to its U.S. dealers concerning the issue more than two years before the safety problem became widely publicized, and a series of other events in the run-up to Toyota's recall crisis. More>>>

U.S. lawyers seek consolidation of Toyota suits
-Reuters
03/25/2010 - Lawyers suing Toyota across the United States over cars that have raced out of control lobbied a special judicial panel on Thursday to merge the scores of cases and assign them to one or two courthouses for pretrial proceedings. More>>>

Toyota resisted findings in '07 on potential dangers
- Seattle Times
03/19/2010 - As congressional investigators learned last month, Toyota Motor lobbyists claimed last year to have saved the company $100 million by fending off a 2007 federal investigation into unintended acceleration. Toyota and agency officials dismissed the claim as an idle boast. But a closer look at the 2007 investigation, revealed in agency records and internal Toyota e-mails, shows that after federal investigators at the time diagnosed a number of potential dangers in Toyota cars and trucks, the automaker resisted the findings and in the end escaped a broad recall that could have cost millions of dollars. More>>>

Are Toyota electronic flaws with stalling related to sudden acceleration?
-Examiner
03/19/2010 - According to Reuters, Toyota Motor Corp has told U.S. safety regulators via a letter that it is considering how to fix nearly 1.2 million Corolla and Matrix models at risk of stalling out because of flaws in an electronic system. Note the words, “electronic system.” Be apprised, this admittance by Toyota is no public claim at all that it is also related to sudden acceleration. The early-stage investigation relates primarily to vehicles stalling. However, read the words carefully, and judge for yourself if there might be a possible connection. More>>>

Toyota faces racketeering claims in consumer suits
-Reuters
03/17/2010 - Lawyers seeking civil damages against Toyota Motor Corp on behalf of U.S. consumers for diminished resale value of recalled vehicles are broadening their cases to add racketeering claims against the automaker. Using federal racketeering laws to amend the consumer class-action complaints, which have grown in number to more than 80 suits in at least 40 states, exposes Toyota to much greater potential liability. More>>>

Toyota Complaints Surged After First Recall
-The Wall Street Journal
03/10/2010 - Public records at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration show complaints about speed-control problems with Toyota Motor Corp. vehicles have surged since the Japanese car maker announced in September it would recall millions of vehicles to fix floor mats that can pin the gas pedal in an open position. More>>>

Toyota to Expand Prius Recall
-Daily Finance
03/09/2010 - A day after a highly publicized acceleration incident involving a Prius hybrid sedan in California, Toyota Motor (TM) said Tuesday 2004-09 Prius models will be subject to a future recall to keep floor mats from pinning down accelerator pedals, according to The Wall Street Journal. More>>>

Toyota Owners Encounter Acceleration Problems After Recall Fix
U.S. News
03/04/2010 - The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has received at least seven complaints from Toyota owners who say they are experiencing unintended acceleration even after their cars have been repaired as part of Toyota’s floor mat and accelerator pedal recalls. More>>>

Toyota Sued Over San Diego Accident
-The Wall Street Journal
03/04/2010 - Relatives of a California Highway Patrol officer killed along with his family when a Lexus accelerated out of control have sued parent Toyota Motor Corp. in one of the tougher cases the Japanese car company may face.
In the wake of congressional hearings and recall notices, Toyota has taken a public-relations beating and could be vulnerable on many legal fronts. But many of the other high-profile lawsuits involving unintended acceleration filed against Toyota have circumstances that could give the company another factor to blame. More>>>

Toyota's fix is a bust, owners claim
New complaints allege sudden acceleration and other problems after recall work.
-LA Times
03/03/2010 - Some Toyota owners have begun complaining that their vehicles suddenly accelerated even after dealerships made repairs to fix the problem, according to reports filed with federal safety regulators. At least seven complaints, filed in the last two weeks with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, allege that after the recall service to modify pedals and replace floor mats the cars still surged out of control. More>>>

Toyota Maintains Recall Not Linked to Electronic Systems
-FOX News
03/02/2010 - Toyota officials continued to insist Tuesday that consumer complaints regarding unintended acceleration in their cars has nothing to do with the vehicle's electronic systems as some have suggested. More>>>

U.S. Considers Brake Override System
-The New York Times
03/02/2010 - The Obama administration may recommend that carmakers install a brake override system that is intended to prevent the sudden acceleration episodes that have led to recalls of millions of Toyotas, the transportation secretary, Ray LaHood, said on Tuesday. More>>>

I was left in a coma by 90mph Toyota crash TWO YEARS before safety recall
-Daily Mail
02/19/2010 - A rescuer who rushed to help the driver of a crashed Toyota Yaris found the engine 'revving to the limit'. The devastating 90mph smash happened two years before the recall of millions of Toyotas worldwide because of 'sticky' accelerators, faulty braking systems and dangerous floor mats. More>>>

$100 million lawsuit blames deaths on Toyota
-The Daily News
02/18/2010 - A $100 million wrongful-death lawsuit claims a Clear Lake City couple died after their Toyota Camry’s throttle malfunctioned, causing the car to accelerate and crash into a utility pole. The lawsuit comes as Toyota conducts a recall of 6 million automobiles in the U.S. to repair sticking throttles. It is the largest recall in the automaker’s history and among the top 10 of all time. More>>>

Toyota Units Sued for Racketeering Over Acceleration
-Bloomberg
02/12/2010 - Four Toyota Motor Corp. units were named in a racketeering lawsuit that claims the companies collaborated to sell cars they knew were unsafe. The defendants include Toyota Motor Sales USA Inc., as well as units that produce Toyota’s Camry and Avalon models and handle leasing and engineering, according to a complaint filed Feb. 8 in federal court in Covington, Kentucky. More>>>

Toyota hit by another class-action suit
-CBC News
02/11/2010 - Another class action lawsuit has been launched on behalf of disgruntled Toyota car owners, this time alleging some Toyota and Lexus hybrid vehicles have defective braking systems.
A Saskatchewan-based firm filed the lawsuit in Alberta Wednesday and intends to file parallel suits in each province. More>>>

Toyota faces massive legal liability
-LA Times
02/11/2010 - Toyota Motor Corp.'s massive recalls for acceleration and braking problems are creating a huge legal liability for the company -- and Toyota owners may share in the pain. The Japanese automaker faces dozens of lawsuits over injuries and deaths attributed to safety problems, with many more suits expected. Lawyers and legal experts said the lawsuits could be particularly expensive for the automaker if plaintiffs prove that Toyota was aware of problems but failed to correct them. More>>>

Toyota Recall Cost to Exceed $2 Billion, Lawyers Say
-Bloomberg
02/10/2010 - Lawsuits against Toyota Motor Corp., the world’s largest automaker, will push the cost of recalls linked to sudden acceleration past a $2 billion company estimate for warranty payments and lost sales, customers’ lawyers say. People who purchased Toyota vehicles in the U.S. have filed at least 41 class action lawsuits against Toyota, seeking damages that range from loss of car value to a return of profits. Toyota faces at least 13 individual lawsuits claiming deaths or injuries caused by unwanted acceleration of vehicles. Customer lawyers said they’re considering filing dozens more. More>>>

Toyota hearing delayed, regulators review Corolla
-Reuters
02/10/2010 - A U.S. congressional committee postponed a hearing scheduled for Wednesday to examine recent vehicle recalls and how Toyota Motor Co and regulators responded to reports of safety problems with big-selling cars. Separately, safety regulators said they will continue their probe of brake problems with the 2010 hybrid Prius even though Toyota announced a recall and a remedy. More>>>

NHTSA warned about Toyota, Lexus models in 2007
- USA Today
02/08/2010 - As Toyota grappled with reports that it was recalling its Prius hybrids in Japan and may do so in the United States, evidence continued to beg whether the automaker and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration responded quickly enough to reports of sudden acceleration in some of its other models. More>>>

Toyota Has Pattern of Slow Response on Safety Issues
-The New York Times
02/08/2010 - Toyota’s recalls and disclosures in recent months are part of a lengthy pattern in which the automaker has often reacted slowly to safety concerns, in some instances making design changes without telling customers about problems with vehicles already on the road, an examination of its record shows. More>>>

Toyota trouble round-up: What to do now
-CNN
02/05/2010 - Problems with Toyota cars are cropping up faster than the automaker can deal with them. Following two different recalls for problems involving accelerator pedals on various models comes the revelation of braking problems in the iconic Prius. More>>>

Toyota's Troubles Deepen
Transportation Chief Says Probe Isn't Over; Car Maker Could Face Civil Penalty
-Wall Street Journal
02/02/2010 - Toyota Motor Corp.'s quality crisis deepened Tuesday, as U.S. regulators accused the company of dragging its feet on fixing defective gas pedals and threatened civil penalties and further reviews of Toyota products. The move means that Toyota's efforts to address its biggest-ever safety and public-relations mess are far from over. Last week, the administration indicated it had no issues with how Toyota had responded to the sudden-acceleration reports, which led the company to recall about six million vehicles and have been linked to at least five fatalities. More>>>

Fatal Houston crash leads to lawsuit against Toyota
-Houston Chronicle
02/02/2010 - The family of a Houston woman whose car sped through a stop sign and smashed into a cement wall, killing her on impact a week before Christmas, filed what is likely the third acceleration-related wrongful death lawsuit against Toyota in the nation Monday. More>>>

Toyota Faces New Class-Action Suits Over Acceleration
-Bloomberg
02/01/2010 - Toyota Motor Corp., the world’s largest automaker, faces at least 12 lawsuits seeking class- action status in the U.S. and Canada connected to the company’s recalls over sudden acceleration of its vehicles. More>>>

Toyota’s Slow Awakening to a Deadly Problem
-New York Times
02/01/2010 - It was the tragedy that forced Toyota, which had received more than 2,000 complaints of unintended acceleration, to step up its own inquiry, after going through multiple government investigations since 2002. More>>>

Data point to Toyota's throttles, not floor mats
-LA Times
11/30/2009 - Amid widening concern over acceleration events, Toyota has cited 'floor mat entrapment.' But reports point to another potential cause: the electronic throttles that have replaced mechanical systems. Eric Weiss was stopped at a busy Long Beach intersection last month when he said his 2008 Toyota Tacoma pickup unexpectedly started accelerating, forcing him to stand on the brakes to keep the bucking truck from plowing into oncoming cars. More>>>

Toyota Recalls in the U.S. Test Promise to Make ‘Better Cars’
 -Bloomberg
11/25/2009 - Toyota Motor Corp. plans to fix accelerator pedals on about 4 million vehicles in its biggest U.S. recall, as the automaker works to fulfill its president’s vow to “make better cars.” The Japanese company also will install a brake override system on some of the vehicles after drivers reported cases of sudden acceleration, the U.S. Transportation Department said yesterday. More>>>

Clarksville Death Linked To Toyota Recall
Family Files $10M Toyota Lawsuit
-NBC News
11/24/2009 - CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. -- The death of a Clarksville man is linked now to the largest recall ever in Toyota's history. A $10 million lawsuit filed against Toyota from a Clarksville family is the latest development in a two-year investigation by the Channel 4 I-Team into cases of sudden acceleration by Toyota Tacoma pickup trucks. The Tacoma is among of the 3.8 million vehicles recalled by Toyota, as is the Camry. More>>>

Toyota wrangles with regulator over floor mat recall
Toyota and the government are bickering about a floor mat safety warning, but they both agree on the solution: car owners should remove the mats.
-CNN Money
11/23/2009 - What could have been a heated battle between Toyota and the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration in a game of "he said/she said" quickly cooled. Last month, Toyota and NHTSA warned drivers to remove the mats in certain models or risk a forced-down accelerator pedal that could lead to a crash. Toyota plans a recall to fix the problem, and began sending notifications this week to Toyota and Lexus vehicle owners about the issue. More>>>

WILSON: Why Are Toyotas Taking Off?
-ABC News
11/23/2009 - It's a dangerous defect inside automobiles touted for their safety that has led to the largest recall in Toyota history. As Chief Investigator Steve Wilson reports, it’s a potentially deadly problem that seems to affect Toyota Avalons down to the Prius, and even some Lexus models, too. Toyota first said the problem was solved with a recall of 3.8 million vehicles, but some owners and safety experts are saying “not so fast.” More>>>

Toyota may shorten gas pedals in acceleration recall
-ConsumerReports
11/17/2009 - Toyota will reportedly offer to shorten gas pedals in up to four million of its vehicles, following the company’s largest recall in history for unintended acceleration. This latest solution, following a recall last month asking owners to remove the floor mats in their vehicles, was reported by the Kyodo News and further covered by Reuters. More>>>

Toyota to fix accelerators in huge US recall
-Reuters
11/15/2009 - Toyota Motor Corp will soon offer to fix the accelerator pedals of up to 4 million vehicles in the United States that are subject to the company's largest ever safety recall, Kyodo News reported on Saturday. Toyota is believed to have agreed with U.S. authorities to voluntarily repair the accelerator pedals, Kyodo said, citing sources familiar with the matter. More>>>

Toyota Sued by Consumers Over Sudden Acceleration of Vehicles
-Bloomberg
11/11/2009 - Toyota Motor Corp. has failed to correct a problem with the throttle control system on some of its vehicles, causing them to suddenly accelerate, lawyers for consumers said in a lawsuit. Los Angeles residents Seong Bae Choi and Chris Chan Park, who claim they experienced multiple instances of unintended acceleration, filed the suit as a class action on Nov. 5, seeking to represent all U.S. owners of certain Toyota and Lexus models. More>>>

Safety investigators dismissed numerous reports of sudden Toyota acceleration, then said data were lacking.
- Los Angeles Times
11/08/2009 - More than 1,000 Toyota and Lexus owners have reported since 2001 that their vehicles suddenly accelerated on their own, in many cases slamming into trees, parked cars and brick walls, among other obstacles, a Times review of federal records has found. More>>>

Regulators slam Toyota over 'no defect' claim
U.S. auto safety agency rebukes an assertion that it found nothing wrong in vehicles involved in a massive recall over incidents of unintended acceleration.
- Los Angeles Times
11/05/2009 - Federal safety regulators have sharply rebuked Toyota Motor Corp. for issuing "inaccurate and misleading" statements asserting that no defect exists in the 3.8 million vehicles it recalled after a Lexus sedan accelerated out of control in San Diego County, killing four people. More>>>

Owners of Toyota Cars in Rebellion Over Series of Accidents Caused by Sudden Acceleration - ABC News Investigation Uncovers Reports of 16 Deaths, Over 200 Accidents; Toyota Owners Demand Answers
-ABC NEWS
11/04/2009 - Refusing to accept the explanation of Toyota and the federal government, hundreds of Toyota owners are in rebellion after a series of accidents caused by what they call "runaway cars." Safety analysts found an estimated 2000 cases in which owners of Toyota cars including Camry, Prius and Lexus, reported that their cars surged without warning up to speeds of 100 miles per hour. More>>>

Toyota says stuck accelerator problem entirely due to floor-mat jams
- USA Today
11/03/2009 - Toyota said today that its cars don't have a rampant sudden acceleration problem for any reason other than driver’s side floor mats that can become lodged under the gas pedal. More>>>

Report: Toyota faulty throttles caused by more than jammed car mats
-SDNN
10/19/2009 - The deaths of an off-duty California Highway Patrol officer and his family in a runaway Lexus, its brakes on fire, point to a troubling possibility that millions of Toyota and Lexus autos on American roads have serious throttle control problems, it was reported Sunday. More>>>

Toyota to recall 3.8 million vehicles:
Floor mats may slide, jam accelerator pedal
-The Detroit News
09/30/2009 - Toyota Motor Corp. will recall more than 3.8 million Lexus and Toyota vehicles, its largest ever U.S. safety recall, after drivers reported that floor mats slid forward and in some cases jammed the accelerator pedal, the company and the U.S. government said Tuesday. More>>>

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