A House committee’s chairman asks about similar sudden acceleration problems with the Tacoma truck. The questions come as the government also starts looking into brake problems on the Prius hybrid.

Toyota’s recall troubles continue to grow, with the total number of vehicles affected by two recalls involving gas pedals growing to at least 5.3 million

Toyota Motor has now increased its second large recall in two months to over 5 million vehicles relating to a problem with accelerator pedals that can get stuck, causing vehicles to speed up unintentionally

2009-2010 Polaris All-Terrain Vehicles (ATVs) have been voluntarily recalled by Polaris Industries because the front suspension ball joint stem can separate from the steering knuckle and cause the rider to lose steering control, posing a risk of injury or death to riders

Rejecting Ford’s challenge to the award, the Supreme Court has left in place an $82.6 million award to a woman who was paralyzed after her Ford Explorer rolled over

Amid a huge recall and widening concern over acceleration events, Toyota has cited ‘floor mat entrapment.’ But reports point to another potential cause: the electronic throttles that have replaced mechanical systems

Toyota Motor Corp. said Wednesday it will replace accelerator pedals on about 4 million recalled vehicles in the United States because the pedals can get stuck in the floor mats

For parents wanting to provide their children some good, clean off-roading fun, the Fushin, a smaller-than-normal all-terrain vehicle, seemed just the thing. Except the Chinese import with jaunty yellow paint and a low $250 price tag was missing one feature: front brakes.
As the New York Times reports, in the $5 billion market for A.T.V.’s, the skyrocketing growth of Chinese imports is becoming the latest challenge for the CPSC, which is starting a global campaign to improve the safety of a product that kills more people — about 900 a year …

More than 1,000 Toyota and Lexus owners have reported since 2001 that their vehicles suddenly accelerated on their own, in many cases slamming into trees, parked cars and brick walls, among other obstacles

Federal safety regulators have sharply rebuked Toyota Motor Corp. for issuing “inaccurate and misleading” statements asserting that no defect exists in the 3.8 million vehicles it recalled