Toyota Motor Corp says it has found no evidence to support a driver's account of a widely-publicised runaway Prius incident in California last week.James Sikes said his Prius sped out of control, but Toyota said its own tests could not replicate the event.Millions of Toyota models have been recalled after several complaints about the braking and accelerator systems.Toyota insists that it has fo
LOS ANGELES Toyota cited inconsistencies Monday in the story of a man who called police for help saying his Prius vehicle was speeding uncontrollably down a California highway.The story made national headlines last week after a local television station capture images of the blue 2008 Prius being towed away and the car's owner spoke to reporters about his harrowing experience.The case added fu
Toyota's reported sins have given us the scandal du jour, but typically, the media zips past the basic problem.Toyota's safety irregularities pointedly illustrate instead the failure - if not the virtual disappearance - of regulation, a pattern begun in the 1970s as the nation dismantled and eroded the effectiveness of its Regulatory State.In bi-partisan fashion, its origins began with the Carter
WASHINGTON – Toyota Motor Corp.faces more questions from Congress over its troubled safety record when top company officials testify Tuesday at a Senate hearing on the automaker's huge worldwide recall of 8.5 million vehicles.The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation will hold the third congressional hearing in seven days on whether Toyota and federal safety regulators ac
WASHINGTON – The nation's largest auto insurer said Tuesday it alerted federal safety regulators in late 2007 about a rise in reports of unexpected acceleration in Toyota vehicles, the latest warning sign to emerge about the massive recall.State Farm insurance said it noticed an uptick in reports of unwanted acceleration in Toyotas from its large customer database and warned the National Hi
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