Toyota has had a bad few days in the news which is the worst time of year to be having bad news (not that there is a good time for bad news). No company wants to have negative news stories written and talked about them right in the heart of the holiday shopping season. Unfortunately for [...]
I hope no one will be surprised to read that Toyota is issuing yet another recall. This one is for 2005-2008 Corolla and Matrix in the U.S. and Canada. It encompasses about 1.13 million cars, about 200,000 of them in Canada. Without getting too technical and boring about the problem, it can make the engine [...]
In the last little while, much of the talk about Toyota’s poorly built vehicles that have a tendency to accelerate unexpectedly and put people in danger have gone away. Toyota must be very happy that their nightmare is over. Although the nightmare might be over, at least the media onslaught they went through, the [...]
Just as I have predicted several times, Toyota is issuing another recall on their vehicles for a new problem, totally unrelated to all the others we’ve seen over the last 9 months (and there have been many). This one involves some of their most expensive Lexus models throughout the world. Among the models being recalled this [...]
The auto industry is fairly structured with its overall line up of vehicles. There are many categories of cars and most of these categories have about 5 main models from the various manufacturers. In order to compete in a wide assortment of categories, some car makers have multiple brands. This allows them to have a [...]
On Tuesday, U.S. lawmakers introduced a bill that would essentially add, standardize and regulate certain features that new vehicles will have to be built with. This is not the first time that the government has done this and to be fair, it is not always a bad thing because some of those features (i.e. seat [...]
This was a bad week for auto manufacturer, Toyota. First came the news about its Lexus GX460 luxury SUV that has the potential to roll over on certain curves. In light of that news, Toyota said that it will halt sales of that model until they figure out how to fix the problem. Then, on Friday [...]
GM is doing a lot better these days than they did in 2009. They have new and exciting products that are arriving shortly and have a lot of positive publicity surrounding them currently. They are also seeing better sales and interest in their products overall, according to a top executive for the domestic car maker this week. GM [...]
Toyota announced their much anticipated sales figures for the month of February earlier this week. It was expected that their sales would decline as this was the first full month since the hoopla regarding the spontaneous acceleration in many Toyota vehicles had become the talk of every news show, newspaper, late night talk show and many [...]
Here we go again. Today the Toyota Prius is being recalled for a different reason than the other recalls that took place recently. This time the brakes on the Prius’ do not always work as they should due to a software glitch. This prompted the car maker to issue a global recall for 437,000 Prius’. [...]
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