REPORT: Toyota execs deny cover-up after feds rebuke automaker over runaway car investigation
Nov 6, 2009
Filed under: Government/Legal , Safety , Toyota Remember Toyota's massive 3.8 million unit unintended acceleration recall that was attributed to pesky floor mats? It appears defective floor mats doesn't tell the whole story, as the Department of Transportation and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration declared in a statement that "this (unintended acceleration) matter is not closed," adding "removal of the floor mats is simply an interim measure, not a remedy of...
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Government/Legal ,
Recalls , Safety , Toyota
Toyota has announced that
it will recall some 3.8
million cars and trucks
to reshape and/or replace
their accelerator pedals.
The action is the result
of fears that loose
floormats may cause th...
Filed under: Minivan/Van
, Government/Legal ,
Recalls , Safety , Ford
The National Highway
Traffic Safety
Administration (NHTSA) is
investigating hundreds of
reports that 2004-2005
Ford Freestar and Mercury
Monterey minivans are
fitted with defective ...
Swedish sports car maker
Koenigsegg Group AB has
come to its senses. The
company decided to pull
out of its earlier
agreement to buy Saab
from General Motors.
Barring some new edict
from
GMâs
board, the auto maker
will likely just wi...
Filed under: Motorsports
, Europe ,
Government/Legal We don't
condone illegal behavior
here at Autoblog. Heaven
forbid. But if you are
going to break the law,
this strikes us as a good
way to go about it.
Reports out of Germany
indicate that a group
o...
Blog: A Thought by Alicia O.
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— To often people walk
through this life blind
to what is really going
on in this world; so
self-absorbed that they
do not realize that the
person next to them may
be in need of something
as small as a hello to
something as big as a
hand up... I must sa... more
Blog: Body of trapped Utah spelunker won't be recovered by HM S.
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— SPANISH FORK, Utah -- The
popular Utah cave where a
26-year-old medical
student died earlier in
the week will be closed
permanently and his body
will not be removed,
state and county
officials said Friday. more
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