Latest Toyota Headlines
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Jury Finds Toyota Liable in Unintended Acceleration Death Claim
Oct 25 2013 // Toyota Motor Corp. has been found liable in an unintended acceleration lawsuit in the U.S., one of the first such cases to go to trial since the Japanese carmaker began recalling millions of vehicles in 2009 over...
California Jury Gives Toyota Win in First Acceleration Case
Oct 11 2013 // A jury in California on Thursday found Toyota Motor Corp. not liable in one of the first wrongful death lawsuits to go to trial in the United States over alleged defects that caused some vehicles to unexpectedly...
Toyota Must Face Trial in Federal Sudden-Acceleration Case
Oct 8 2013 // Toyota Motor Corp. must go to trial in federal court over a lawsuit blaming a Camry driver’s accident and injuries on design defects in the car that caused it to accelerate suddenly. U.S. District Judge James Selna...
Toyota Claims Plaintiffs Fabricated Fatal Acceleration Theory
Oct 2 2013 // Toyota Motor Corp. said plaintiffs’ lawyers seeking to blame a fatal accident on unintended acceleration made up a theory of how a 66-year-old woman’s foot got stuck between the gas and brake pedal of a 2006...
Toyota Acceleration Case Settlement Gets Final OK
Jul 22 2013 // A U.S. judge on Friday gave final approval to the settlement of a class action lawsuit against Toyota Motor Corp. by plaintiffs who claimed design defects caused some of the company’s vehicles to accelerate without...
Judge Grants Toyota More Time to Win OK of $1.1 Billion Settlement
Jun 17 2013 // Toyota Motor Corp. and lawyers suing the company were given more time to win final approval of a $1.1 billion settlement of claims that recalls related to unintended acceleration hurt the value of U.S. customers’...
Chrysler’s Recall Refusal of 2.7M Jeeps Could Invite Major Liability
Jun 10 2013 // A defiant Chrysler is refusing to recall about 2.7 million Jeeps the government says are at risk of a fuel tank fire in a rear-end collision. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration sent Chrysler a letter asking...
Japan Carmakers Recall 3.4 Million Vehicles for Takata Airbag Flaw
Apr 11 2013 // Four Japanese automakers including Toyota Motor Corp and Nissan Motor Co are recalling 3.4 million vehicles sold around the world because airbags supplied by Takata Corp are at risk of catching fire or injuring...
Toyota Finalizes $29 Million Multi-State Settlement Over Acceleration
Feb 14 2013 // Toyota Motor Corp. will pay $29 million as part of a multi-state settlement agreement finalized on Thursday over the Japanese automaker’s failure to quickly notify drivers of defects that wound up triggering the...
Toyota Claimants Not Part of $1.1 Billion Settlement Face Uphill Climb
Dec 28 2012 // Toyota Motor Corp. eliminated a huge obstacle with a U.S. settlement over unintended acceleration in its cars and trucks, leaving it to fight smaller cases that will be harder for plaintiffs to prove and less likely to...
Toyota to Settle Acceleration Cases for More Than $1 Billion
Dec 26 2012 // Toyota Motor Corp. has agreed to spend $1.1 billion to settle sweeping U.S. class-action litigation over claims that millions of its vehicles accelerate unintentionally, as the Japanese automaker seeks to move past the...
Insurance Safety Group Releases Car Ratings Based on New Crash Test
Dec 20 2012 // Toyota Motor Corp.’s best-selling 2013 Camry received a “poor” crash-test rating on Thursday from an insurance industry group that awarded high marks to Honda Motor Co’s redesigned Accord sedan. The...
Thieves Pass on Hybrid Toyota Prius
Nov 21 2012 // The Toyota Prius, the top selling hybrid electric vehicle in the U.S., has both an exceptionally low theft rate and a markedly high recovery rate. A comparison of car theft rates by model years shows that the 2008-2010...
Toyota to Recall 2.77 Million Vehicles for Steering, Water Pump Problems
Nov 14 2012 // Toyota Motor Corp said it will recall 2.77 million vehicles worldwide, including some of its popular Prius hybrid cars, for steering and water pump problems in the carmaker’s second multimillion-vehicle recall in a...
Sandy Could Force 250,000 Cars to Scrap Heap
Nov 8 2012 // Superstorm Sandy may consign as many as a quarter of a million new and used cars and trucks to the scrap heap, a loss that could eventually lead to a spike in new auto sales, automakers and dealers said. So far, automakers...
Driving Toward a Future Without Humans Behind the Wheel
Aug 15 2012 // It’s been more than half a century since some of the first concept cars boasting self-driving features were presented to the world and they’re still not on the roads. But many auto executives say the industry...
Toyota Recalling Suvs, Sedans
Aug 3 2012 // Toyota is recalling 778,000 RAV4 SUVs and Lexus HS 250h sedans to fix a suspension problem that could cause crashes. The company says if rear suspension nuts aren’t tightened properly after a wheel alignment, the...
Ratings Recap: Toyota Motor, Medical Protective, AMERISAFE
Jun 12 2012 // A.M. Best Co. has revised the outlook to positive from stable and affirmed the financial strength rating of ‘A-‘ (Excellent) and issuer credit rating of “a-” of Iowa-based Toyota Motor Insurance...
Some Acceleration Claims Against Toyota Dismissed
Apr 22 2012 // Toyota Motor Corp. has won the tentative dismissal of some claims in the class-action lawsuit brought by owners of its vehicles over problems with sudden acceleration. In what would be a victory for Toyota if the ruling...
Toyota Recalling Some Tacomas, Camrys And Venzas
Mar 9 2012 // Torrance, Calif.-based Toyota Motor Sales USA Inc. said Wednesday that it’s recalling nearly 700,000 vehicles because of various problems. The recalls include about 495,000 Tacoma trucks made during the 2005 through...
