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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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DEFEND YOUR RIDE: Sean At Enoch Pratt Free Library
“The Egg, it’s peppy!” The Ride The Driver: Sean Car in Question: 2009 Toyota Yaris Spotted at: Enoch Pratt Free Library, 400 Cathedral Street, Baltimore, MD 21201 Odometer: 85,374 Car’s Nickname: The...
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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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