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2006 Toyota Highlander Hybrid Engine Stalling Investigated
While Toyota clearly hopes the worst of its recall problems are behind it, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has opened a new investigation into an older Toyota vehicle. On February...
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Toyota Recall Recap: Floormats, Sticky Pedals, AND User Error
Let’s recap. After 18 months, recalls totaling 9 million Toyota, Lexus, and Pontiac models, and investigations by Toyota, Congress, NASA, and the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway...
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Huge New Toyota Recall Includes 245,000 Lexus GS, IS Sedans
It appears that the worst of Toyota’s recall woes might not yet be past. The world’s largest automaker confirmed plans today to recall nearly 1.7 million vehicles globally, for issues including oil...
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NHTSA Investigation Concludes No Electronic Flaws In Recalled Toyotas
Unintended acceleration, Pedalgate, whatever the tag line, the federal government investigation into Toyota vehicles recalled for their purported propensity to suddenly take off, beyond driver...
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2012 Toyota Prius Plug-In: Driven
When the Toyota Prius Plug-In Hybrid goes on sale about this time next year, it will be the first mass-production vehicle from Toyota that plugs in. Yet, despite that, the Plug-In feels more like a...
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Md. Police: Man Dies 9 Days After Crash
WESTMINSTER, Md. (AP) — Maryland State Police say a Mount Airy man has died nine days after a crash in Carroll County. Troopers were called out to state Route 27 on April 18 for a crash between a...
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EPA Says Toyota Prius Hybrid No Longer ‘Most Fuel-Efficient’
Ask Americans about fuel-efficient cars, and many will name the iconic Toyota Prius hybrid, with gas mileage rated by the EPA at a combined 50 miles per gallon. So you’d expect the EPA to rank the...
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Will 2012 Toyota Prius Plug-In Get Us Used To Plugging In?
Last week, Toyota said it expects to sell 16,000 or more 2012 Prius Plug-In Hybrid models in the U.S. next year, once the car is launched (in June or before). For all intents and purposes, it’s a...
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Disability Nonprofit Needs Your Vote To Win Passenger Van
BALTIMORE (WJZ)— You have the opportunity to help hundreds of Marylanders who are disabled and all you have to do is log onto Facebook. Andrea Fujii tells us how your vote can help a Baltimore...
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Mother Nature Wants To Drive Your Prius Hybrid Too
The Toyota Prius is not only the quintessential hybrid-electric vehicle, but the automaker’s third best-selling car line in the United States. Last year, the redesigned 2010 Prius launched with the ad...
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2 In Custody For Allegedly Causing Fiery Accident In Northeast Baltimore
BALTIMORE (WJZ) — A car consumed by flames in a Baltimore neighborhood. The people inside narrowly escape with police right on their heels. Kai Jackson tells us how it all unfolded. Sources tell...
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Horse Rescue Wins Toyota Truck Contest
GLENVILLE, Pa. (WJZ) — A horse rescue has extra horsepower after winning a nationwide contest. Andrea Fujii tells us how the community helped them. It’s an early Christmas for Angel Acres Horse Haven...
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Toyota Donates Millions To National Environmental Education Foundation
BALTIMORE (WJZ)—A public-private partnership is bringing much needed funding to our nation’s parks. In Baltimore comes a major announcement from Toyota showing its commitment to more than just building...
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2014 Toyota Highlander Hybrid Will Be U.S. Made
Buy a gasoline 2012 Toyota Highlander crossover in the U.S., and the chances are it will have been made at Toyota’s Princetown factory in Indiana. Opt for the more fuel efficient 2012 Toyota...
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Consumers Show Their Love For Honda, Ford, Toyota
2011 was a tough year for Asian automakers. True, their vehicles have fared well in various rankings, like Consumer Reports’ recent list of “Top Picks”. But between the March 11 Tohoku earthquake and...
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A Reader Explains: Why I Bought A Prius Plug-In, Not A Volt Or Leaf
Last month, Toyota said that it had 2,100 pre-orders for the 2012 Prius Plug-In Hybrid. Now, with first sales of that car being logged this week and dozens of them delivered to dealers, we have a...
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Toyota Prius In Recall Of 2.77M Vehicles Worldwide
Toyota is conducting a voluntary safety recall of 2.77 million vehicles worldwide over concerns about flaws in the steering and water pump systems of certain of its gasoline and hybrid vehicles. A...
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Toyota Pays $17 Million Fine Over ‘Timeliness’ Of Recall
Back in June, Toyota added the 2010 Lexus RX to a long list of vehicles that were recalled due to problems with accelerator pedals sticking beneath floor mats. That was unusual because Toyota launched...
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Toyota Recalls 1 Million Vehicles In U.S. To Fix Faulty Airbags, Wipers
Toyota recently announced that it will conduct two separate safety recalls involving a total of approximately 1.02 million vehicles in the United States for problems with potentially defective airbags...
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Poll: Toyota Recovers U.S. Reputation, As Chrysler & GM Lag
Toyota hasn’t just bounced back, with one of the strongest reputations among automakers in the U.S. It is the most highly regarded auto-sector company in the U.S. So says one of the preeminent...
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Maryland Part Of $29M Toyota Settlement
BALTIMORE (AP) — Maryland Attorney General Doug Gansler has announced that the state has reached a $29 million settlement with Toyota Motor Corporation, along with 29 other attorneys general. Gansler...
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Toyota i-Road Concept Debuts At 2013 Geneva Show
Toyota has reaffirmed its commitment to battery-powered electric mobility by unveiling the funky i-Road concept car this week at the 2013 Geneva Motor Show. Designed as a flexible and cost-effective...
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Sporty New Corolla Aimed At Youthful Buyers
DETROIT (AP) — Toyota is giving the Corolla a sportier look and more gadgets, a recognition by the world’s biggest automaker that the under-50 crowd wants more than just reliability in a compact car....
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Road Test: 2013 Toyota Avalon
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — It looks like Toyota may have finally figured out a way to make the Avalon, well, cool. In previous incarnations of Toyota’s take on the big American family car, Toyota put in a...
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Toyota Camry Gets A Top-To-Bottom Makeover
NEW YORK (AP) — Shaken by the advances of newer, sportier rivals, the Toyota Camry is trying to shed its vanilla reputation. The redesigned 2015 Camry, unveiled Tuesday at the New York Auto Show, is...
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American Cars In Decline? GM’s Role In The International Recall War
General Motors has had a tough year. With roughly 10 million vehicles being recalled for everything from wiring problems to faulty ignition switches, many are reporting that the automaker’s actions...
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Google Building Car With No Steering Wheel
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Google will build a car without a steering wheel. It doesn’t need one because it drives itself. The two-seater won’t be sold publicly, but Google said Tuesday it hopes by this time...
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New Tesla For The Price Of A Prius?
PALO ALTO (CBS SF) — Tesla Motors, makers of luxury and performance electric cars, will now have a smaller fourth version Model 3 priced at $35,000 to compete with the BMW 3 Series and priced at the...
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Toyota Not Expecting Driverless Cars Soon
YPSILANTI, Mich. (AP) – Your car soon will do more to help avoid a crash. As for one day leaving all the driving to the vehicle while you relax in back, don’t get your hopes up. That’s the message from...
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Toyota: Automated Cars Won’t Be Driverless Cars
YPSILANTI (WWJ) – As the auto industry looks to bring some automated driving to the roads in the next few years, don’t get the idea that you can just check out, and leave the driving to your car....
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Automated Driving Is The Future
DETROIT (AP/WWJ) – The world appears to be moving closer to the day when cars are sending information back and forth between each other — at the speed of light. That information could minimize traffic...
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US Agency Warns Nearly 8 Million Car Owners To Get Air Bags Fixed
DETROIT (WWJ/AP) – The U.S. government issued an urgent plea to nearly 8 million people to get the air bags in their cars fixed, amid concern that a defect in the devices can possibly kill or injure...
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List Of Cars Affected By Airbag Recall
The U.S. government has issued an urgent plea to nearly 8 million people to get the air bags in their cars fixed, amid concern that a defect in the devices can possibly kill or injure the driver or...
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Tech Issues Hurt Auto Reliability Scores
DETROIT (WWJ) – Car companies are adding more technology in cars in an effort to please consumers, but Consumer Reports finds that too often that technology is not yet ready for prime time. “Sometimes...
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Toyota Invests In Uber, Offers Lease Deals To Drivers
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS/AP) — Toyota is investing in Uber, making it the latest car company to put money in a ride-hailing app. The Japanese company did not say how much the investment is worth. As part of...
View ArticleToyota Recalls Tundras, Sequoias For Reported Faulty Airbags
BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Owners of 2018 and 2019 Toyota Tundra and Sequoias may need to take their vehicles back to the dealer. The airbags reportedly do not inflate during a crash. 2019 Avalons are also part...
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Toyota Is Working On A Moon Buggy With Japan’s Space Agency
(CNN) — In about 10 years, Toyota hopes to be shuttling people around the moon. The automaker has teamed up with Japan’s space agency to build a fuel cell-powered electric lunar rover that they aim to...
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Toyota Cars Will Now Turn Themselves Off If You Forget
(CNN) — Toyota cars and SUVs with push-button ignitions will now turn themselves off after being parked for a period of time, even if the driver didn’t hit the “Engine Off” button. Cars that can be...
View ArticleToyota Recalls Nearly 700K Vehicles To Fix Faulty Fuel Pumps
PLANO, Texas (WJZ) — Toyota is conducting a safety recall of certain Toyota and Lexus vehicles, saying that they are equipped with a fuel pump that may stop operating, the company said in a news...
View ArticleToyota Adds 1.2M Vehicles To US Fuel Pump Recall
DETROIT (AP) — Toyota is adding 1.2 million vehicles to a major recall in the U.S. to fix possible fuel pump failures that can cause engines to stall. The company said Wednesday that the added vehicles...
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