US files charge against Toyota, $1.2B penalty

Perrysburg Dodgeboy wrote:

Hannibal wrote:


http://www.caranddriver.com/features/its-all-your-fault-the-dot-renders-its-verdict-on-toyotas-unintended-acceleration-scare-feature

And there you go an out side third party with facts. So yes I can accept this and yes I was wrong. Oh BTW spoon I have to say your are 100% correct there are a lot of LEO that are aragent idiots!

Thanks Hannibal for posting a link backed up with facts. Now the question becomes why was Toyota fined since the DOT proved that none of these crashes could be linked to the TCM. Make you stop and say WTF really?

And BTW the way I did google this using several different key words and never found anything from an reliable source, showing the data Car and Driver reported.

Doss anyone have another jar of catsup, this damn crow tastes like chit!

Don

My understanding is that they hid the fact that the floor mat issue potentially affected a lot more vehicles and lied about it. Only after pressed did they do the bigger recall.

What the public seems to believe (fueled by the media) is that they hid some kind of software issue with the gas pedal, which just isn't supported by facts. This, is what I take issue with, and I believe Spoon as well (but I won't put words in his mouth).