Toyota asks panel to consolidate lawsuits in Calif (AP)

Thursday, March 25th, 2010 at 12:48 pm  
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Lawyers enter the federal Courthouse for a hearing on whether dozens of cases will be consolidated before a single judge in San Diego, Calif., Thursday, March 25, 2010. A special panel of U.S. federal judges is being asked Thursday to consolidate, before a single court, dozens of proposed class-action lawsuits filed by Toyota owners who say the value of their vehicles has plummeted after millions were recalled for safety fixes. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)AP – ContentType:Spot Development; ContentElement:FullStory; Breaking:Right;


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Toyota will replace pedals for unhappy owners (AP)

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010 at 11:47 am  
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FILE - A mechanic adjusts the gas pedal of Toyota's RAV4 sport-utility vehicle at a Toyota dealer in this March 1, 2010 file photo taken in Shanghai, China. A reader-submitted question about 'where recalled vehicles get fixed'? is being answered as part of an Associated Press Q&A column called 'Ask AP.' (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)AP – Toyota has told dealers it will provide replacement accelerator pedals to owners who are unsatisfied with their repairs under the massive recall following dozens of complaints about the fix.


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Toyota shareholders sue over fallen stock price (AP)

Sunday, March 21st, 2010 at 9:11 am  
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AP – Some Toyota shareholders are upset over a sudden drop in the Japanese automaker’s stock price and they are filing lawsuits claiming company executives deliberately misled investors and the public about the depth of accelerator problems.

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LaHood’s Japan trip to focus on Toyota safety (AP)

Saturday, March 20th, 2010 at 5:33 pm  
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File - In this Feb. 10, 2010 file photo, photographers and TV cameramen surround a recalled Prius as a technician fixes the program of the antilock brake system at a Toyota Motor Corp. dealer in Tokyo, Japan when Prius owners in Japan become the first to get the fix nationwide amid a massive global recall of the gas-electric hybrid cars. Japanese police are recommending criminal charges against a driver who says his Toyota Prius crashed in July, 2009, because of brake failure after an analysis of 'black box' data showed no defects. Data from an event recorder, or 'black box,' in the Prius, sent to a laboratory for analysis found the brakes were working properly, police said Friday, March 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara, File)AP – Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood says he’ll go to Japan this summer for talks with Toyota executives about the sudden acceleration problem plaguing some Toyotas.


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Senate panel to review Toyota recalls (AP)

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010 at 12:08 am  
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Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda takes questions from reporters during a briefing in Nagoya, central Japan, Tuesday, March 2, 2010. Toyota is repairing nearly 1 million vehicles in the U.S. and Japan for potentially leaky oil hoses, the latest in a spate of quality problems battering the world's biggest automaker. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)AP – Toyota Motor Corp. faces more questions from Congress over its troubled protection record when top company officials be a witness Tuesday at a Senate hearing on the automaker’s huge worldwide recall of 8.5 million vehicles.


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