#1 Click this link to see 2009 News Photos page --> 08/03/2008

Japanese automaker Toyota Motor Corp. engineer Yoshihiro Kawarazaki arrives by Toyota’s new motorized ride ‘Winglet’ he has been developing during a press conference in Tokyo Friday, Aug. 1st, 2008. Toyota will start testing the stand up and ride contraption, that travels at up to 6 kph (3.7 mph), later this year at a Japanese airport and resort complex and next year at a shopping mall to get feedback from people. No plans are set to sell the Winglet as a commercial product.

Of course they will sell it as a commercial product, why bother to make it otherwise? Another great American idea stolen by the Far East! Toyota Motor Corporation #Toyota MjL

#2 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 02/06/2010 #2

Mechanic Matthew Lee works on Toyota’s gas pedal recall at a dealership in Palo Alto, CA.

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#3 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 02/13/2010 #4

Toyota Motor Corp. Managing Officer Hiroyuki Yokoyama bows after submitting the company’s formal recall notice for its 2010 Prius gas-electric hybrid and two other hybrid models to Ryuji Masuno, director general of the Road Transport Bureau of the Transport Ministry in Tokyo. Toyota is recalling nearly 200,000 of its signature Prius cars in Japan for braking problems, the latest in a string of safety alerts by the world’s largest automaker.

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#4 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 03/19/2010 #1

This photo released Wednesday March 17th, 2010 by the California Highway Patrol shows a Toyota Prius after it was stopped with the help of a California Highway Patrol officer after the driver reported the vehicle’s accelerator became stuck. Toyota representatives held a news conference Monday, March 15th, and said this driver’s account was substantially different from its findings.

Sudden Unintended Acceleration I’m curious why #Toyota was allowed to examine this car; we don’t normally allow the criminal to handle the evidence before the trial? Toyota is being allowed to cover this up and more people will eventually be injured and killed. MjL

#5 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 04/20/2010 #2

A recalled accelerator pedal from a Toyota Camry sits on a workbench at City Toyota in Daly City, California. Japanese auto giant Toyota is expected to sign legal documents, agreeing to pay the US government a record fine of nearly 16.4 million dollars for concealing gas pedal defects.

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#6 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 11/25/2021 #19

In 2009, Toyota said it would replace the gas pedals on 4 million vehicles in the U.S. because the pedals could get stuck in the floor mats and cause sudden acceleration. #Toyota Except a huge number of incidents were in cars with NO floor mats. Another cause of fatalities swept under the floor mat. (Reminds me of the Ford Pinto deaths.)

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#7 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 12/26/2021 #16

In 2012, Toyota Motor Corp. said it had reached a settlement worth more than $1 billion in a case involving unintended acceleration problems in its vehicles. Toyota’s Bogus Explanation #Toyota

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