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Report: Southeast Toyota dealers pull ads from local ABC stations citing "excessive stories" on recall

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Filed under: Marketing/Advertising , Toyota Southeast Toyota , which is the largest franchised distributor of Toyota vehicles in the world with 173 dealers in Florida, Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina & South Carolina, has reportedly pulled all of its advertising from local ABC stations. Why? Apparently, the group decided that the television stations were airing “excessive stories on the Toyota issues ” by ABC News and its chief investigative correspondent Brian Ross. So, where is all that latent advertising money going now

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Report: Southeast Toyota dealers pull ads from local ABC stations citing "excessive stories" on recall

Southeast Toyota dealers pull ads from local ABC stations citing "excessive stories" on recall

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Filed under: Marketing/Advertising , Toyota Southeast Toyota , which is the largest franchised distributor of Toyota vehicles in the world with 173 dealers in Florida, Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina & South Carolina, has reportedly pulled all of its advertising from local ABC stations. Why? Apparently, the group decided that the television stations were airing “excessive stories on the Toyota issues ” by ABC News and its chief investigative correspondent Brian Ross. So, where is all that latent advertising money going now

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Southeast Toyota dealers pull ads from local ABC stations citing "excessive stories" on recall

Fed reportedly expanding investigation into Ford F-150 airbags

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Filed under: Government/Legal , Safety , Ford Back in October, the National Highway Traffic Safety Adminstration announced a Ford F-150 airbag investigation. There were 530,000 2005 model year F-150s involved in the investigation before Halloween, but now the number has swelled to 1.56 million trucks spanning the 2004-2006 model years. The government agency has also upgraded the investigation to an engineering analysis – one step closer to a recall. The F-150 airbags are being investigated because the administration has reportedly received some 300 complaints of airbags that deployed without an accident

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Fed reportedly expanding investigation into Ford F-150 airbags