The world’s largest automaker is attempting to fix its cars and its reputation.
In Tokyo today, the company announced its latest recall — more than 400,000 Prius and other hybrid vehicles worldwide — bringing the total recalls to 8.5 million.
The announcement was accompanied by a new apology by Toyota’s chairman, who said the company will face up to the facts and correct the brake problem — putting customers’ safety first.
For more, Daljit Dhaliwal interview Roben Farzad, a senior writer at Bloomberg Business Week. He talks about who might benefit from Toyota’s troubles– including Hyundai and Ford.
What do you think about Toyota’s response to the problems with its cars?
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02/14/2010 :: 09:55:57 PM
David Rubin Says:
The “gas pedal” problem is a very low probability problem that was probably undetectable until millions of cars were put into use. The real solution for anything that causes a car to become uncontrollable for any reason, is a POSITIVE KILL SWITCH that is not dependent upon any other system in the car to function. I would never buy a car that is dependent upon a complex system to shut down. So I’ll stick to carefully selected old used cars for now.