There is a recall in the U.S. of multiple Toyota cars, to fix an issue that may cause the gas pedal, while it ages and wears out, to stick partially down under certain situations. There were about 2.3 million vehicles in the U.S. recalled for the problem. Some of the cars include Toyota's 2009-20012 RAV4, Corolla and Matrix; 2005-2010 Avalon, certain 2007-2010 Camrys (though not the Camry Hybird) , 2010 Highlander; 2007-2010 Tundra and 2008-2010 Sequoia. The Toyota president Akio Toyoda told Japanese news that they where planing to "give an explanation that will take away the customers' concern as soon as possible" and that they where sorry for the concern. Cars in Europe where recalled by the Japanese automaker, it involved about eight different models, and the number of recalled cars was roughly said to be as much as 1.8 million automobiles. There was a recall that started in November, one that involved the gas pedal that could be caught on the edge of the removable floormat, which had about 5.3 million vehicles recalled. For the November recall and the newest recall, there are similar vehicles are affected by both recalls.
More recalling? There are so many things being recalled nowadays, how do we know if what we are buying is going to be safe? The article did not say anything about injuries or deaths due to this problem, but thats does not mean that there where none. Hopefully, though, that Toyota caught this problem before anybody got hurt. The Toyota president said that they were going to fix the problem 'soon', the article said that as early as next week hopefully. This may hurt their business having to recall about 3 times already, the consumer trust might fall, and go to other car companies, which seem to have safer cars. Toyota might need to get their act together, and not need to recall any more cars to try to prevent a drop in their business.
http://money.cnn.com/2010/01/30/autos/Toyota_fix_recall_gas_pedal/index.htm?eref=rss_topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_topstories+%28RSS%3A+Top+Stories%29
I agree with you Noelle. It seems that whether it's food or cars or even toys, it's all getting recalled at one point or another. And we really don't have any idea if what we are buying is safe. I think that there have been a few injuries due to this brake issue, but I don't think there were any extreme cases. Toyota for sure did not catch this problem soon enough, they should have caught it before its wheels came close to touching tar for the first time. Along with this, they should have had the problem fixed by now. Their company did suffer a major part of its reputation, and they are trying to do things to regain some of this lost trust, but I think that they will never get back all of their previous customers, many people have given up and moved on.
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