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Auto Woes: Toyota Recalls About 92,000 Vehicles in Japan

TOKYO (July 5) -- Toyota started recalling more than 90,000 luxury Lexus and Crown vehicles Monday in Japan over defective engines - the latest setback for the automaker beset with quality problems. Toyota Motor Corp. spokesman Paul Nolasco said recalls in overseas markets will follow soon, totaling about 270,000 vehicles...

Toyota Fights 'Runaway Prius' Claim

(March 15) -- After months of apologizing, Toyota is fighting back. Top U.S. executives for the embattled automaker convened a televised press briefing today to dispute the claim of a California man who said his 2008 Prius sped out of control because of the same accelerator problem that has forced the company to recall...

Are Today's Cars Too Smart for Their Own Good?

(March 4) -- Today's cars are technical wonders largely controlled by complex computer systems. But as Toyota struggles to identify the cause of the sudden acceleration problems that are believed to have contributed to the deaths of dozens of people, some are wondering whether all that technology is really such a good...

Amid Toyota Crisis, LaHood Rolls Along

WASHINGTON (March 3) -- Ray LaHood was jabbing the air with his finger, insisting to a roomful of lawmakers that, as Toyota recalled more and more flawed cars from the U.S. market, his department wasn't asleep at the switch. "We haven't been sitting around on our hands," the U.S. transportation secretary told Congress....

Toyota Hearing: Top Grandstanding Moments

WASHINGTON (Feb. 23) -- A top American executive for Toyota faced angry lawmakers Tuesday in the first of three planned congressional hearings into the company's extensive recalls in the United States and around the world. Like any highly anticipated Capitol Hill hearing, the testimony by Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A....