Toyota recalled another 2.2 million vehicles last week for floor mat-acceleration pad problems. Since last spring, the company has recalled nearly 8 million vehicles and paid $48.8 million in civil fines over the timeliness of the recalls. And Toyota still faces a slew of lawsuits in federal multidistrict litigation over sudden unintended acceleration.
Federal auto safety regulators have begun an investigation into whether floor mats in 2010 Ford Motor Co.'s Fusion and Mercury Milan sedans can entrap the gas pedal, causing unintended acceleration. The investigation follows complaints of a similar nature that sparked the recall of millions of Toyota Motor Corp. vehicles in recent months.
By Ken Bensinger and Ralph Vartabedian Los Angeles Times
LOS ANGELES. (AP) -- After years of legal wrangling, the first of hundreds of lawsuits over acceleration problems against Toyota Motor Corp. has been scheduled for trial. A crash that killed two people in Utah will be the first lawsuit to be weighed in court, a federal judge said Friday.
WASHINGTON - The Obama administration's investigation into Toyota safety problems found no electronic flaws to account for reports of sudden, unintentional acceleration and other safety problems. Government investigators said Tuesday the only known cause of the problems are mechanical defects that were fixed in previous recalls. The Transportation Department, assisted by engineers with NASA, said its 10-month study of Toyota vehicles concluded there was no electronic cause of unintended high-speed acceleration in Toyotas. The study, which was launched at the request of Congress, responded to consumer complaints that flawed electronics could be the culprit behind Toyota's spate of recalls.
WASHINGTON -- Massive recalls of popular Toyota cars and trucks still may "not totally" solve frightening problems of sudden, unintended acceleration, the company's American sales chief conceded Tuesday, a day before the Japanese president of the world's largest automaker must confront angry U.S. lawmakers. House members listened in rapt silence Tuesday to the tearful testimony of a woman whose car unaccountably surged to 100 mph, then they pressed U.S. sales chief James Lentz on the company's efforts to find and fix the acceleration problems -- actions many suggested were too late and too limited.
Dozens of personal injury lawsuits against Toyota Motor Corp. will be allowed to move forward if a federal judge's tentative ruling becomes final. U.S. District Judge James V. Selna issued the order Wednesday, then heard arguments Thursday so he could consider his final ruling. Plaintiffs' attorney Mark Robinson says the development would be a victory for 51 plaintiffs who filed personal injury or wrongful death lawsuits against the Japanese automaker. Hundreds of lawsuits have been filed since Toyota starting recalling millions of vehicles because of acceleration problems and brake defects. The cases have been consolidated in Selna's California court. Toyota says in a statement that it's happy the judge will allow attorneys to depose some plaintiffs so it can learn the facts of their c...
WASHINGTON - Massive recalls of popular Toyota cars and trucks still may "not totally" solve frightening problems of sudden, unintended acceleration, the company's American sales chief conceded Tuesday, a day before the Japanese president of the world's largest automaker must confront angry U.S. lawmakers. House members listened in rapt silence Tuesday to the tearful testimony of a woman whose car unaccountably surged to 100 mph, then they pressed James Lentz, president of Toyota Motor Sales USA Inc., on the company's efforts to find and fix the acceleration problems - actions many suggested were too late and too limited.
MIAMI - Toyota has routinely engaged in questionable, evasive and deceptive legal tactics when sued, frequently claiming it does not have information it is required to turn over and sometimes even ignoring court orders to produce key documents, an Associated Press investigation shows. In a review of lawsuits filed around the country involving a wide range of complaints - not just the sudden acceleration problems that have led to millions of Toyotas being recalled - the automaker has hidden the existence of tests that would be harmful to its legal position and claimed key material was difficult to get at its headquarters in Japan. It has withheld potentially damaging documents and refused to release data stored electronically in its vehicles.
It looks as though Toyota will be defending claims brought by customers who allegedly suffered economic losses from unintended acceleration problems in the company's vehicles. According to Bloomberg News, a federal judge in California late last week issued a tentative ruling that economic loss claims against Toyota met federal pleading standards.
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