Filed under: Government/Legal , Recalls , Toyota Thought the battles between Toyota and the U.S. Congress were over? Think again. Toyota President Jim Lentz was back on Capitol Hill Thursday to discuss Toyota’s recall issues , and it appears some representatives are still looking for blood
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Filed under: Government/Legal , Recalls , Safety , Toyota Jim Lentz, President and Chief Operating Officer of Toyota in North America has taken some time to update Congress on the company’s progress as the company sallies forth through a mountain of recalls . Lentz says that around 3.5 million fixes have been executed so far, including 1.67 million sticky accelerator pedals, 1.62 million floor mats and 118,000 anti-lock brake system program updates. Those figures mark 70 percent of all of the vehicles under the sticking-accelerator recall and Toyota says that it has been performing somewhere in the neighborhood of 120,000 fixes per week on average. Lentz also says that his company has complied with mandates from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration by bringing a total of 150 Event Data Recorder readout machines to the States
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Filed under: Government/Legal , Recalls , Safety , Toyota , UK Most of the vehicles Toyota has recalled as a result of the automakers issues with unintended acceleration span only the past few years, but there have been many reports that Toyota’s unwanted thrust issues may have gone back to 2004 or even earlier. Automotive News reports that the automaker appears to have had similar issues as far back as 1999, at least in the UK. According to the trade publication, Toyota recalled 10,919 Lexus IS200 models built between March 1999 and July 2000 for a floor mat issue that could lead to sudden acceleration. Now federal investigators are wondering why Toyota didn’t spread their recall over to the U.S
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Report: Toyota recalled floor mats in the UK ten years ago, didn’t recall in U.S.
Filed under: Coupe , Videos , Toyota Toyota FT-86 Concept – Click above for high-res image gallery We’re used to seeing Digg boosting our stories, but once in a while the popular user-voted news site generates some original content of its own. This time, a Digg correspondent got 30 minutes of camera time with Jim Lentz, who, as President and COO of Toyota Motor Sales USA, very well might be the busiest man in America right now. Lentz fielded a series of questions – mostly related to the recall – submitted by users and voted (or Dugg) into the list.
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Video: Toyota’s Jim Lentz confirms FT-86 (not Supra) coming to America
Filed under: Etc. , Recalls , Safety , Toyota , Event Alert Digg, the “what’s popular” website that allows users to share and rate links to stories they’ve discovered online, also offers a feature known as “Digg Dialogg,” wherein it hosts a streaming exchange between prominent public figures and the masses (those that frequent Digg, at least). Monday’s Digg Dialogg will be with Toyota’s U.S.
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Social Experiment? Digg community to interview Toyota President on Monday
Filed under: Recalls , Safety , Videos , Toyota Toyota’s Jim Lentz explains the sticky pedal situation – Click above to watch the video after the break Toyota President and COO Jim Lentz decided to go ahead and visit one of the automaker’s own dealerships to see one of its recalled gas pedals go through the shim-fix for himself, and he helpfully brought a video crew along for the ride. After giving a brief rundown of what’s happened thus far – a much more thorough version of which can be found here – Lentz turns the duties over to one of the dealership’s service technicians, who runs through the actual process of fixing a defective pedal. Now, for a few observations: First, we wouldn’t want to take his place behind the camera, but all Lentz needs is a basketball for that left hand of his and he’d be a veritable Harlem Globetrotter.
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Video: Jim Lentz makes his own recalled pedal fix film