Posts tagged runaway

• Toyota Recall: Second Fine On The Way?

  Brett Emison | April 13, 2010 11:49 AM | 0 CommentsKansas City, MO Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Last week, Toyota was hit with a record $16.4 million fine for hiding its sticky pedal sudden acceleration defect from federal safety regulators and the American public. Now, it looks like Toyota...

• Toyota Recall: More Evidence That Toyota Knew About Acceleration Problems Long Ago

  Brett Emison | April 13, 2010 11:35 AM | 0 CommentsKansas City, MO Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Last week, we learned that a top Toyota executive warned the company that it needed to come clean about its sudden acceleration problem before Toyota ever told safety regulators at NHTSA or the...

• Toyota Recall: Top Exec Confirms Toyota Not Protecting Customers; "We Need To Come Clean"

  Brett Emison | April 08, 2010 1:56 PM | 0 CommentsKansas City, MO Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  After years of stonewalling and attempted coverups, we've learned that a top Toyota official finally warned the company that We need to come clean about sudden acceleration problems several days...

• Toyota Recall: Toyota Hit With Record $16.4 M Fine For Hiding "Sticky" Pedal Defect

  Brett Emison | April 06, 2010 9:32 AM | 0 CommentsKansas City, MO Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  News outlets around the world, including the Associated Press, Time Magazine, Forbes, US News & World Report and BusinessWeek have reported that US government safety regulators have hit Toyota...

• Toyota Recall: California Prosecutors Suing Toyota Because of Acceleration Problems

  Brett Emison | March 13, 2010 10:22 AM | 3 CommentsKansas City, MO Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  The Detroit Free Press and BBC News have reported that prosecutors in Orange County, California will sue Toyota because Toyota knew about defects in several Toyota model lines, but did not tell...

• Toyota Recall: Are Criminal Charges Against Toyota Coming Next?

  Brett Emison | March 11, 2010 10:11 AM | 0 CommentsKansas City, MO Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  After at least 34 Toyota sudden acceleration deaths, attempts to cover up the sudden acceleration problem since 1986, and lie after lie after lie, USA Today has reported that Toyota may face...

• Toyota Recall: Runaway Prius Rescued By California Highway Patrol

  Brett Emison | March 09, 2010 10:23 AM | 2 CommentsKansas City, MO Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  News sources across the country, including Fox News, the Today Show on NBC and the Los Angeles Times, have reported on a runaway Toyota Prius that was rescued by California Highway Patrol officers...

• The Numbers Behind The Toyota Sudden Acceleration Recall

  Brett Emison | January 30, 2010 8:12 AM | 0 CommentsKansas City, MO Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  I have been documenting the Toyota sudden acceleration and sticky throttle problems for months. Let's see how the Toyota recall numbers stack up. $29.6 billion -- Cash on hand at Toyota [1] 9...

• Toyota Recall: Time Magazine Suggests Recall Will Not End Sudden Acceleration Problems

  Brett Emison | December 04, 2009 11:31 AM | 2 CommentsKansas City, MO Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  An article in Time magazine suggests that Toyota's massive recall will not end the controversy over the Toyota sudden acceleration defect. But critics complain that Toyota was slow to acknowledge...