USA TODAY: A year after its “unintended acceleration” trouble began, Toyota today is announcing that it’s going to expand its recall of floor mats to include nearly 2.2 million more Lexus and Toyota vehicles in the U.S. The mats can jam against accelerator pedals — causing so-called pedal entrapment. The company calls the recalls “voluntary,” but federal regulators say they requested them.
Toyota said the new models affected include:…
The recalls show that Toyota is still bedeviled by issues surrounding unintended acceleration, which last year resulted in the recall of hundreds of thousands of cars to replace floor mats that can jam against accelerator pedals or to replace pedal mechanisms that can stick. The government, however, this month reported that it can find no evidence that Toyota’s electronic throttle systems are at fault for unintended acceleration… (more)
