US files charge against Toyota, $1.2B penalty

Perrysburg Dodgeboy wrote:
So let me get this right......it's our Australian friends contention that it was a North American issue only right? My link seems to disprove that theory. He and others also whould want us to believe that this was blown way out of proportion. I bet the people that lost their lives may disagree with you...if they could. Still others in a round about way blame the drivers still holding on to their theory that ALL of the crashes are floor mat issues not something else. Talk about blinders good God people.

Toyota is a for profit company and has been cought liying and cheating their customers many times. I think the Toyota fans are even more loyal the the blue oval fan club!

Primarily Yes. Seems to be after ownership went from the US Government to GM, the complaints stopped. We get a lot of our Vehicles from Toyota Australia and Japan. They recalled some US built or parts sourced vehicles.None of the "Unintended Acceleration" hysteria you got in the US. The bulk of those "Global Vehicle recalls"
came from NA.

Approximately 1.7 million vehicles are subject to both. CCertain related Lexus and Pontiac models were also affected.

Primarily a NA problem.

A Lot of the Toyotas sold in Europe have parts sourced from NA.
No Unintended Claims in Australia.

Toyota Australia confirmed in 2010 that local models were unaffected by the unintended acceleration issue, due to a unique supply of the components affected in US models.

There have still been no reports of unintended acceleration relating to Toyota models in Australia.