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03 Feb 2010 11:48

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Biz: Everyone’s talking about Ray LaHood and Toyota this morning

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03 Feb 2010 10:38

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Biz: Toyota’s myriad car problems extend to another pedal

  • accelerator The car company just recalled a ton of vehicles due to a faulty accelerator which would get stuck. They’re in deep doo-doo.
  • brakes Now, Toyota’s getting reports of malfunctioning brakes on its Prius hybrid cars in Japan. Tokyo has pressured them to investigate. source
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01 Feb 2010 09:40

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Biz: Toyota’s got a fix to their big problem coming this week

  • A fix to the accelerator problem should be coming soon. Ah, Toyota, the most trusted name in cars. Well, until last week, when the accelerator-sticking problem turned into a full-on mess. Anyway, Toyota plans to give dealers a well-tested friction-cutting fix to the problem, which affects millions of cars, later this week. Yay. source
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30 Jan 2010 10:44

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Biz: In the wake of Toyota’s recalls, Honda has a few cars to recall, too

  • 646,000 Fits are unfit to use source
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26 Jan 2010 20:58

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Biz: Toyota stops selling a ton of car brands ’cause they’ll kill you

  • 2.3 million cars, or 8 brands, now on ice for safety reasons source
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21 Jan 2010 23:32

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Biz: Toyota decides to recall even more cars, just for the heck of it

  • 2.3 million cars on top of the 4.2 million already recalled source
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30 Sep 2009 09:22

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Biz: Fear the floormats: Toyota issues a massive recall of its cars

  • 3.8 million Toyota cars could have dangerous loose floormats source
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26 Aug 2009 21:56

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Biz: Toyota just recalled a ton of cars with brake problems

  • 95,700 Toyota & Scion cars recalled source
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08 Jul 2009 11:00

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Biz: Fortune’s Global 500 proves Big Oil, Wal-Mart has us at the throats

  • seven of the top ten companies on the list are oil companies, with Shell being the biggest; Toyota is No. 10
  • third the rank of Wal-Mart, the highest-ranked non-oil-related company on the Fortune Global 500 source
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08 May 2009 11:50

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Biz: Think GM is doing really bad? Check out Toyota’s losses.

  • $4.4 billion in annual losses – their first down year since 1950 source
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