![]() | US investigators launched a probe Tuesday into a runaway Toyota Prius in California, a high-profile case that threatens to undermine the Japanese automaker's effort to repair its battered image. ... |
![]() | Filed under: Hybrid , Toyota Not one day after a high-profile incident involving a Prius taking off on its owner in Southern California , we're hearing reports that another one of Toyota's popular hybrids has suffered unintended acceleration in New ... |
| Federal regulators said they were looking into a report of another runaway Toyota Prius, this one in Westchester County, New York, where police said a woman pulling out of a driveway zoomed across a busy street and into a stone wall. ... |
| The driver of a Toyota Prius told police in suburban New York that her car accelerated on its own, then lurched down a driveway, across a road and into a stone wall. ... |
| A New York police official says Toyota wants a Prius that was involved in a crash — but his department is ... |
| Federal safety regulators are gathering information after a suburban New York driver told police that a Toyota Prius accelerated on its own, then lurched down a driveway, across a road and into a stone wall. ... |
![]() | The crash of a Toyota Prius in New York caught the attention of federal regulators Wednesday after the driver said it accelerated on its own, then lurched down a driveway, across a road and into a stone wall. ... |
![]() | Filed under: Hybrid , Toyota The fall-out of yesterday's Toyota Prius unintended acceleration incident in California - a car got up to speeds of over 90 miles per hour in a 20-minute event - now includes an investigation by the National Highway Traf ... |
| • March 8 — Driver James Sikes speeds along a San Diego County freeway in a 2008 Toyota Prius for 20 minutes, reaching 94 miles per hour, before a Highway Patrol officer helps slow down the car. Toyota, the California Highway Patrol and federal safet ... |
![]() | U.S. safety regulators and Toyota dispatched teams on Tuesday to inspect a Prius that sped out of control on a California freeway a day earlier, as the automaker struggled to reassure consumers shaken by its recall crisis. ... |
![]() | The government sent investigators Tuesday to examine a Prius that sped out of control on a California freeway, and Toyota said it wanted to interview the driver as the besieged automaker dealt with a high-profile new headache that raised questions ab ... |
![]() | A Toyota Prius that sped out of control on a California freeway was towed to a dealership Tuesday while federal and company inspectors converged on the car to determine whether a stuck gas pedal was to blame. ... |
![]() | US safety investigators have begun to probe the case of a runaway Toyota Prius in California, sources said Tuesday, in an incident threatening to undermine the Japanese automaker's effort to repair its battered image. ... |
| U.S. safety regulators and Toyota Motor Corp dispatched investigators to San Diego on Tuesday to inspect a Prius that sped out of control on a California freeway a day earlier. ... |
| Federal officials are sending two investigators to California to determine what caused a Toyota Prius to race out of control on a San Diego-area freeway. ... |
| Federal officials are sending an investigator to determine what caused a Toyota Prius to race out of control on a California freeway. ... |
![]() | Filed under: Hybrid , Toyota Amid all of its other problems recently, Toyota is trying to figure out what, exactly, is wrong with the brakes on the Prius . An incident on the San Diego County freeway makes it look like the second-generation Prius mi ... |
![]() | Dr. Shukri Souri of Exponent: Explaining the Toyota pedal issues on Monday. (Toyota photo) From a public relations point of view, this one is for the record books. Just after Toyota staged a lavish webcast to try and put sudden acceleration behind i ... |
| (Corrects to reflect that 2008 Prius was part of one of Toyota's recalls) ... |
| The driver of a 2008 Toyota Prius said his car uncontrollably accelerated to over 90 miles per hour on a San Diego County freeway before a California Highway Patrol officer helped him stop the car, police said. ... |
![]() | Toyota sought Tuesday to dispel fears about the safety of its electronics, but was put on the defensive when a Prius went speeding out of control along a California highway. ... |
![]() | A Toyota Prius accelerated out of control on a busy California freeway on Monday before police intervened to bring the vehicle to a standstill, police said. ... |
![]() | Toyota sought to discredit fears over the automaker's electronics here Monday but were forced onto the defensive hours later when a Prius went speeding out of control along a California highway. ... |
| A California Highway Patrol officer helped slow a runaway Toyota Prius from 94 mph to a safe stop on Monday after the car's accelerator became stuck on a San Diego County freeway, the CHP said. ... |
| The California Highway Patrol says an officer helped slow a runaway Toyota Prius from 94 mph to a safe stop after the accelerator got stuck. ... |