particularly after the dude who managed to call 9-11 and drive his runaway vehicle without an accident or incident to a complete stop without assistance.
The runaway Toyota cases are so unusual, I’m inclined to consider sabotage....
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Prezactly!!!!
There seems to be a coordinated plan to bankrupt Toyota or send the company into the red.
Toyota is hated because it is a non-union company.
See here :
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i3CZPJXvtZZ46SY9bcMupivluKswD9ETDST00
Toyota faces legal dilemma as well as record fine
By KEN THOMAS (AP)
WASHINGTON — Already flooded with hundreds of private lawsuits, Toyota now faces a dilemma stemming from safety problems on several popular models: whether to accept a record $16.4 million fine that could be cast as an admission of wrongdoing, or fight the government at the cost of more bad publicity.
The Japanese automaker was weighing its options after the Transportation Department charged Monday that Toyota had hidden a “dangerous defect” and had failed to quickly alert regulators to the safety problems in such models as the best-selling Camry and Corolla. The company has two weeks to accept or contest the penalty.
The proposed fine is the most the government could levy, but further penalties are possible under continuing federal investigations.
Toyota Motor Corp. has recalled more than 6 million vehicles in the U.S., and more than 8 million worldwide, because of acceleration problems in multiple models and braking issues in the Prius hybrid.
In announcing the proposed fine, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said documents obtained from the automaker show that Toyota knew of the problem with the sticking gas pedals in late September but did not issue a recall until late January. The sticking pedals involved 2.3 million vehicles.
“We now have proof that Toyota failed to live up to its legal obligations,” LaHood said in a statement. “Worse yet, they knowingly hid a dangerous defect for months from U.S. officials and did not take action to protect millions of drivers and their families.”
For those reasons, LaHood said, the government is seeking a fine of $16.375 million, the maximum penalty possible. That dwarfs the previous record: In 2004, General Motors paid a $1 million fine for responding too slowly on a recall of nearly 600,000 vehicles over windshield wiper failure.
Toyota has been named in 138 potential class-action lawsuits over falling vehicle values and nearly 100 personal injury and wrongful death cases in federal courts nationwide.
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I’ve been thinking sabotage for a long, long time. Toyota makes too good a car.