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| Thursday, February 4 2010 |

Ha-ha.

Looks like the fun just keeps on coming over at Toyota.

Now Toyota is acknowledging that there were design problems with the antilock brake system in the new Prius, which went on sale last year.

Yesterday, we were hit with the story that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is starting to look at more than 100 complaints about brakes on the latest version of the Prius. That's on top of all the problems with the accelerators in the eight models that were recalled, an issue that so far hadn't involved Prius.

In Japan, Toyota spokeswoman Ririko Takeuchi said today that the design issues were found and corrected for Prius models sold since late January, the Associated Press said. But it is still considering what to do about buyers who already bought the Prius.

I've been treating the stupid things like traffic cones on the highway anyway, but this just takes the taco.

And you know what, you dorks earned it by trying to become Chevy, without the one car they managed to get right.

Meanwhile, I'm happy to say that both the accelerator and brakes on my Toyotas, cars made when Toyota gave half a crap about building cars instead of Maytags with wheels, work just dandy.
posted by Mr. Lion @ 9:35 hours | comments (1)


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