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From Friday's Globe and Mail Published on Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010 1:01PM EDT Last updated on Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010 6:19PM EDT
Toyota Motor Corp. (TM-N68.72-0.34-0.49%) is recalling another 1.13 million vehicles in North America after only three incidents during which its cars stalled, demonstrating how auto makers have become trigger-happy with recalls in the wake of the negative publicity Toyota endured earlier this year during a larger recall.
The recall is Toyota’s 15th this year and covers its most popular car in Canada – the Corolla compact, which is built at one of the company’s assembly plants in Canada. It also applies to the Canadian-made Matrix and to Pontiac Vibe models, which were assembled at a joint-venture assembly plant Toyota operated with General Motors Co., until the plant was closed earlier this year.
The publicity generated by the earlier Toyota recalls, a Congressional hearing into the matter and a public apology by company president Akio Toyoda, have caused all auto makers to move more quickly now to recall vehicles and head off potential negative publicity arising from what consumers might perceive to be a delay in dealing with defects.
“They got this black eye from these other issues,” said Joe Phillippi, who heads Auto Trends Consulting Inc., in Short Hills, N.J. “Now it’s a situation where you overreact to these things.”
This latest recall “seems like a stretch,” Mr. Phillippi said.
It applies to 2005-2008 Corolla and Matrix models in Canada and the United States. There have been three incidents of stalling because of problems with engine control units, which led to three accidents on U.S. roads.
Toyota Canada Inc. spokeswoman Sandy Di Felice said the company is not aware of any such incidents in Canada.
“Clearly definitions of various conditions that vehicles have experienced have evolved from where we were at a previous time in the automotive industry,” Ms. Di Felice said when asked if three incidents would have led to a recall a year ago.
The latest recall affects about 136,000 Corollas and 64,000 Matrix models in Canada, all of which were assembled at the company’s Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada Inc. assembly plant in Cambridge, Ont.
Toyota Canada will begin notifying owners of the recall in mid-September and will follow that with another letter when the replacement parts become available.
Toyota and its competitors are still dealing with the fallout from a blizzard of negative publicity the Japan-based auto maker endured earlier this year when it recalled 7.6 million vehicles because of problems related to floor mats trapping accelerator pedals or the pedals sticking on their own, which led to dozens of accidents and some deaths in the United States.
After that black eye for Toyota and the blemish to its reputation for quality, auto makers are “erring on the side of doing a recall, versus not doing a recall,'' Clarence Ditlow, executive director of the Center for Auto Safety, a not-for-profit consumer advocacy group, told The New York Times this week. “All the manufacturers want to clean up their act and get defects and recalls behind them so the public doesn't question the safety of their vehicles.''
I still think Toyota was grossly and unfairly judged by the American media. The way Toyota was made into a public scape goat while known issues with Chrysler/Dodge vehicles still haven't progressed into a proper recall is just disgusting. The company my dad works for has a fleet of Dodge Caravans and every single one has had major problems with the ABS, TC and brakes cutting out, even after multiple attempts at getting them fixed.
i love how pro white folks laugh at japanese car makers saying there shit cuz they cut ends & stuff like that, but in reality even though they shit happens they still care about u & enough that to u save
my dads y2k corolla (yes i call it that) saved are life as year after a crash & no air bags were popped, & till this day it's still running in are garage
I went up to a cute chick and asked her if she'd let me take a photo of her for $30 she slapped me, she said to me that "I AIN'T A WHORE!"
But other than that I have seen every car on display in DTP just by cruising about in Richmond, thank you very much for collecting them together and get someone to sing a cover for "fuck you".
OH FUCK YOU OH OH OOOOH~
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Originally Posted by Neva
wtf man? what the hell kind of women do you go for? spca is for animals not dates...
i love how pro white folks laugh at japanese car makers saying there shit cuz they cut ends & stuff like that, but in reality even though they shit happens they still care about u & enough that to u save
my dads y2k corolla (yes i call it that) saved are life as year after a crash & no air bags were popped, & till this day it's still running in are garage
what the fuck are you saying anyway?
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Originally posted by Jocelyn So, I guess a valentines day would include a blow job in the car with the PS2 hooked up and porn lined up.
Originally posted by Marco911 My C4S will ass rape a Z06 on a rainy day too.
Originally posted by KuSouL even tho Timpo's an ass ~ he actually knows what he's talking about
Originally posted by maxx where r jags assembled nowadays? back when they were made in GB, they were rock-solid, dependable and great cars.. now i hear the opposite.
Originally posted by maxx lol.. Ford never even heard of Dakar not to mention get somewhere in it.
Alien Language:
i love how pro white folks laugh at japanese car makers saying there shit cuz they cut ends & stuff like that, but in reality even though they shit happens they still care about u & enough that to u save
English Translation:
I love how Americans laugh at Japanese car makers for taking shortcuts and thinks domestics are the shit. Even though Japanese cars have problems, they immediately take actions because they care about their customers unlike the American car makers.
i love how pro white folks laugh at japanese car makers saying there shit cuz they cut ends & stuff like that, but in reality even though they shit happens they still care about u & enough that to u save
my dads y2k corolla (yes i call it that) saved are life as year after a crash & no air bags were popped, & till this day it's still running in are garage
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