In a House Appropriations panel hearing this morning Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood stated that his own advice to owners of the 2.3 million Toyota vehicles recalled due to potentially sticky accelerator pedals would be to not drive them at all. Up until now, Toyota—and the official recall...Read More»
Lexus sits atop the J.D. Power Vehicle Dependability Study (VDS) once more this year, for the 14th year in a row. The upscale Toyota brand tops Mercury, Cadillac, Toyota, and Acura, which rounded out the top five among automakers showing the fewest problems per 100 vehicles studied after the first...Read More»
Toyota is suffering a sales slump in the U.S.--and part of the cure will be building the Prius hybrid in its yet-unopened plant in Mississippi. This morning's Wall Street Journal reports--and Toyota confirms in a press release below--that the plant in Blue Springs, Miss., which had been planned...Read More»
