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Toyota was also forced to pay a total of $66.2 million in fines to the Department of Transportation for failing to handle recalls properly and $25.5 million to Toyota shareholders whose stock lost value due to recalls. Nearly 400 wrongful-death and personal injury cases were also privately settled by Toyota as a result of unintended acceleration.
Sep 26, 2007 – US: 55,000 Toyota Camry and ES 350 cars in "all-weather" floor mat recall. [34]Nov 02, 2009 – US: 3.8 million Toyota and Lexus vehicles again recalled due to floor mat problem, this time for all driver's side mats.
Toyota targeted the hybrid version to contribute 30 percent of Corolla Cross total sales in the country. [61] It is also exported to 22 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. [62] The facelifted model debuted in Brazil in April 2024, with four trim levels: XR, XRE, XRX and GR Sport, with the same engine options from the pre-facelift ...
Last week, Toyota warned owners of about 50,000 vehicles — including certain Corolla and RAV4 models dating back to 2003 — that parts of airbags could explode, causing serious injury or death.
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In 2010, the crisis of safety-related problems in Toyota made other carmakers that duplicated Toyota's supply chain system wary that the same recall issue might happen to them. James Womack had warned Toyota that cooperating with single outsourced suppliers might bring unexpected problems. [88] Lean manufacturing is different from lean enterprise.
Toyota brands the K120 as the “Direct Shift” CVT and includes a physical first gear (also known as a "launch gear") and nine additional simulated gears, for a total of 10. The launch gear is engaged when the vehicle takes off from being stopped and transitions to the belt drive as the vehicle picks up speed.
The Indonesian market Yaris Cross is available in three trim levels: G, S and S HEV, the former can be equipped with either a 5-speed manual or a CVT while the latter two can be only equipped with a CVT. It is the second Toyota hybrid model produced in Indonesia, following the Kijang Innova Zenix HEV. [56]