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During model years 1982–1987, Audi issued a series of recalls of Audi 5000 (the North American name of the Audi 100 at the time) models associated with reported incidents of sudden unintended acceleration linked to six deaths and 700 accidents. [39] At the time, NHTSA was investigating 50 car models from 20 manufacturers for sudden surges of ...
In February 2010, National Public Radio obtained the full NHTSA database of 15,000 unintended acceleration complaints over the past decade, and determined that among all manufacturers, Volkswagen had the highest rate of unintended acceleration complaints in 2009 and 2008 (11.5 and 21.6 per 100,000 vehicles respectively), while Suzuki had the ...
Toyota Motor (TM) has long blamed motorists for some incidents of unintended acceleration in Toyota and Lexus brand vehicles. The world's largest automaker has reiterated that charge, which it ...
Automaker Toyota agreed to pay $10 million to settle a lawsuit tied to a fatal August 2009 accident near San Diego that killed four members of the same family, raised concerns about possible ...
The company has yet to offer a plausible explanation for incidents of unintended acceleration, which NHTSA attributes to more than 50 deaths in car accidents involving Toyota vehicles. The company ...
The lawsuits, along with hundreds of others, were filed in the wake of Toyota's recall of about 8 million Toyota and Lexus vehicles in the U.S. to make repairs to prevent unintended acceleration ...
A daily look at legal news and the business of law: Toyota Wants Unintended Acceleration Suits Dismissed Toyota (TM) wants all the "unintended acceleration" lawsuits thrown out, essentially on an ...
Embattled Toyota Motor (TM) is recalling nearly 2.2 million more cars to fix problems related to floor mats that can trap accelerator pedals and cause vehicles to accelerate uncontrollably. The ...