Toyota Motor Corp has alerted U.S. safety officials about seat material in several vehicles that does not meet fire retardation standards, which could result in a recall depending on what the safety agency decides. The Japanese automaker said on Thursday …
Toyota Motor Corp reached a deal on Friday to resolve a lawsuit in the United States over unintended acceleration issues, one day after a jury found the Japanese carmaker liable and ordered it to pay $3 million for defects that …
Toyota is recalling 803,000 vehicles in the U.S. because their airbags or power steering could stop working. The Camry and Camry hybrid, Avalon and Avalon hybrid and Venza from the 2012 and 2013 model years are affected. Toyota says water …
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 in Santa Ana, …
Toyota Motor Corp said it is recalling around 200,000 hybrid SUVs globally including the Lexus RX400h, due to a glitch in the hybrid system’s inverter. The Japanese carmaker also said on Wednesday it was separately recalling around 169,000 vehicles including …
Toyota Motor Corp. opted against marketing its brake-override system as “Safe Stop” to avoid promising more than the mechanism could deliver for driver safety, the company’s top U.S. executive told a California jury. Toyota’s chief executive officer for North America, …
Toyota Motor Corp. knew of the danger of stuck pedals and failed to install a brake-override system in the 2006 Camry of a woman who died in a crash, a lawyer told jurors in the first fatal sudden-acceleration case to …
Toyota is recalling 342,000 Tacoma midsize pickup trucks because the front seatbelts can malfunction. The recall affects 2004 to 2011 Access Cab models with a small door to the rear passenger compartment. Toyota says screws that attach part of the …
Toyota is opening a training facility for mechanics complete with a test course that simulates 13 driving conditions including cobblestones and bumpy roads as part of the automaker’s efforts to avoid a repeat of its recall fiasco. A ceremony with …
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’ vehicles. U.S. District Judge James …