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Toyota Stops Sales and Manufacturing of Eight Current Models

Posted by zach On January - 27 - 2010

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[Rock Solid Shifts]With surprisingly little press from the danger that is created by a sticking gas pedal, eight Toyota models have been suspended from sales and even from being manufactured, a drastic safety measure taken until the problem of the unwanted acceleration can be fixed. The source of the problem are parts made by CTS Corp. and manufactured in Ontario, Canada, and maybe just a by product of former President of Toyota Katsuaki Watanabe’s super aggressive growth strategy that catapulted the company to be the largest auto maker world wide in 2008.

As to the accidents and injuries these acceleration problems have caused, probably nobody but Toyota knows the extent. And its a pretty good indication from their actions that things are serious and injuries or deaths are a reality. Corporations act in the best interest of their shareholders, or in other words make decisions based on the bottom line. Stopping production and sales of these eight vehicles will lead to huge losses. The scary part comes in when we realize that they made the decision off knowing that if they continued sales they would lose even more. Can we speculate where those loses come from? Lawsuits maybe? Could be a good guess.

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Cars that sales and production have been halted:

the 2009-2010 RAV4, the 2009-2010 Corolla, the 2007-2010 Camry, the 2009-2010 Matrix hatchback, the 2005-2010 Avalon large sedan, the 2010 Highlander crossover, the 2007-2010 Tundra pickup and the 2008-2010 Sequoia large SUV.

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