A confused Wall Street Journal cited a Toyota PR person, reporting that the 2008 Prius, seen yesterday accelerating out of control in California, will be the subject of a "future recall." They were wrong ? it's already been recalled. More »   ...read more

Following in Toyota’s footsteps, Mazda has announced it will install a brake override system on its future models. Toyota announced it would launch a brake override system on its 2011 models following two safety recalls involving nearly 9 million vehicles worldwide. Although Mazda hasn’t experienced wide-spread unintended acceleration complaints like Toyota, the Japanese automaker is [   ...read more

2010 Mazda6 - Click above for high-res image gallery According to a recent report, Mazda will be installing brake override systems on all of its models in the near future. Whenever that happens, the brake will automatically get priority over the accelerator in a situation where both of them are simultaneously depressed. Nissan already has such a system installed on    ...read more

New information about yesterday's runaway Prius indicates the CHP had to tell the driver to use both the brake and the emergency brake. More proof of beige biting back. More »   ...read more

An article in this week’s Advertising Age and Automotive News (they’re sister publications) investigates why the family in the new hit sitcom ‘Modern Family’ “still drives Toyota product.” The author found it “jarring” that the family “chatted happily while traveling in, of all things, a Toyota.” The answer: Toyota paid for product placem   ...read more

Congress has not requested that Toyota produce the memo that was sent to it by a band of six concerned Toyota workers attempted to warn the automaker of impending quality and safety concerns back in 2006. The report says that Toyota never acknowledged the memo in 2006, but Congressman Edolphus Towns of the House Oversight [...]   ...read more

Toyota has alerted dealers in 30 additional states that it is conducting a “Special Service Campaign” over the same 2000-2003 Tundra rust issue that caused the automaker and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to issue a recall in November 2009...   ...read more