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Toyota recall striking anyone else as fishy?
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04/02/2010 19:43:40
Neil Mc Donald
Cencom Systems P/L
The Sun, Australia
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ya now Toyota has some problem with the brakes on the Prius?

Maybe they should change their motto from "Moving Forward" to "Move the hell out of the way...I've got no brakes and my accelerator is stuck"....geeeze


>vbg
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>>Oh, hell, global warming will kill me first (ducking).
>>
>>>If you have ever had the gas pedal stick wide open at 110kph (I have) you would be taking the vehicle in to be fixed immediately.
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>>>One would think, just turn the ignition off, wrong, it engages the steering lock and you end up running off the road at 130+kph wrestling with steering wheel trying to unlock the steering lock, it gets really ugly really quick.
>>>
>>>>The Toyota recall for sticky gas pedals has been striking me as fishy for a while. Now Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood is recommending that people who own these vehicles not drive them at all until taking them to a Toyota dealership for service.
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>>>>http://money.cnn.com/2010/02/03/news/companies/dot_toyota_lahood/index.htm?hpt=T1
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>>>>Is this an unwarranted conspiracy theory on my part? It just seems awfully convenient for the domestic automakers with their business in the toilet and Toyota being the #1 manufacturer. They wouldn't be ginning this story up behind the scenes, would they?
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