四輛召回修好後的豐田車又有了加速問題；總死亡人數可能增加到52.

By Jeff Green and Margaret Cronin Fisk
March 2 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration received four reports from drivers saying
their Toyota Motor Corp. vehicles experienced sudden unintended
acceleration after they were supposedly repaired in the
automaker’s recalls.
The reports were posted on the regulator’s Web site. A
Transportation Department spokeswoman, Olivia Alair, said the
agency is looking into the complaints and hasn’t confirmed their
validity.
The complaints were about a 2007 and 2010 Camry, 2009
Matrix and a 2008 Avalon that owners said had been repaired at
dealerships. Toyota has recalled more than 8 million vehicles
globally to modify floor mats and accelerator pedals because of
previous complaints.
“We will continue to thoroughly investigate any complaints
involving unintended acceleration,” said Brian Lyons, a Toyota
spokesman.
NHTSA said today that Toyota crashes possibly linked to
unintended acceleration have caused 43 fatal crashes with 52
deaths and 38 injuries. About two-thirds of the incidents have
been reported since Toyota started recalling vehicles last year
for unintended acceleration.

Reported Complaints

The owner of the 2010 Camry wrote in the complaint that the
car was repaired Feb. 12 and accelerated unexpectedly for five
to six seconds as the driver entered a parking lot on Feb. 17.
The owner of the Avalon and 2007 Camry said their vehicles were
at the dealership for review after having repeat accelerations
incidents that were supposed to have been repaired earlier.
The owner of the 2009 Matrix said the recall work was
completed Feb. 10 and on Feb. 26 the car moved forward with the
driver’s foot on the brake in a parking lot.
“I put my other foot on the brake as well,” the
unidentified woman wrote in the complaint. “My son said ‘It’s
doing it again Mom!’ I put it in neutral, and we both heard the
engine wind out like I had pushed the gas pedal to the floor.
This obviously means the recall ‘fix’ isn’t working!”
Toyota’s American depositary receipts, each equal to two
ordinary shares, rose 78 cents, or 1.1 percent, to $74.42 in New
York Stock Exchange composite trading. The shares have lost $34
billion in value since Toyota announced a recall on Jan. 21.

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• All right! 眾位律師，準備好了嗎？ -咱也馬甲一把- ♂ (180 bytes) () 03/02/2010 postreply 18:39:37

• 物極必反，估計也到了真相大白的時候了，拭目以待 -cintiman88- ♂ (0 bytes) () 03/02/2010 postreply 19:12:50

• This just means that Toy does not know what went wrong -biglow- ♂ (107 bytes) () 03/02/2010 postreply 19:40:34

• 建議置頂給豐田車主提個醒 -xavet- ♂ (0 bytes) () 03/02/2010 postreply 20:14:02

• 同意斑竹的意見 -咱也馬甲一把- ♂ (40 bytes) () 03/02/2010 postreply 20:24:16

• 為什麽幾盆國工程師始終沒有解決故障的能力呢？ -lovecorn- ♂ (0 bytes) () 03/02/2010 postreply 20:38:40

• 自動加速各家品牌都有，目前沒有那個汽車公司徹底解決了問題 -cintiman88- ♂ (0 bytes) () 03/03/2010 postreply 05:13:06

• 這是當初我預測到的。因為油門踏板卡住隻能固定油門，不能加速 -潤濤閻- ♂ (406 bytes) () 03/02/2010 postreply 21:03:03

• 得到突然加速的概率=三腳貓駕駛的數目 -tsc12- ♂ (0 bytes) () 03/02/2010 postreply 21:36:53

• 還是忘了豐田吧，可以把才能貢獻給BYD，很有前景 -8年駕齡- ♂ (39 bytes) () 03/03/2010 postreply 07:23:31

• what does that mean: I put it in neutral, and we both heard the -chinanemo- ♀ (177 bytes) () 03/02/2010 postreply 20:21:24

• Shifting to neutral worked. -UberAlles- ♂ (200 bytes) () 03/02/2010 postreply 21:15:40

• And the Brake Overide will not work at this situation -TTESW- ♂ (134 bytes) () 03/03/2010 postreply 13:36:50

• damn, not even a half-fix! toyota is the new Yugo now -jaydad- ♂ (88 bytes) () 03/02/2010 postreply 21:49:45