Let’s face it. If you have children, you have no excuse for not buying the safest car possible. You wouldn’t consider buying a car with poor safety ratings would you? But what about your child’s car seat? Is it the right seat for your child’s age/size? Is it installed properly? Do you know how to install it [...]
Ever since his 1996 Toyota Camry shot up an interstate ramp, plowing into the back of an Oldsmobile in a horrific crash that killed three people, Koua Fong Lee insisted he had done everything he could to stop the car. A jury didn’t believe him, and a judge sentenced him to eight years in prison. [...]
What else could go wrong? Isn’t losing millions of dollars per day while your factories sit idle as thousands of dealers repair faulty accelerators bad enough? Now comes word that the feds are investigating the Japanese giant because of numerous consumer complaints of “unintended veering” on 2009-2010 Corollas. 83 complaints have been filed with NHTSA, [...]
Toyota Motor Corp.’s unprecedented decision to halt sales on its most popular models in the U.S. underlines the biggest question dogging the world’s No. 1 car maker: whether it has sacrificed quality in its quest to capture global market share. The Japanese car maker, which long has been viewed as the leader in automotive quality, [...]
Complaints keep piling up from irate Toyota and Lexus owners who claim their cars have rocketed out of control for no apparent reason. Sixteen deaths are currently being investigated, and over 2,000 complaints have been received since 2005 according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Toyota recalled millions of vehicles for faulty [...]
If you’re ever involved in a roll-over accident, this information will be extremely important to you. For the first time, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) has conducted roof strength tests and used the results in their overall safety ratings. In the above photos, it’s easy to choose which vehicle you’d rather be [...]
What’s shocking about the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety’s safest car list isn’t so much which cars made the list as which cars did not. You won’t find any models from the world’s largest manufaturer - Toyota — on the list. Last year Toyota had eleven models, but this year, not even the best-selling Camry made the grade. [...]
