Toyota Recalls Sequoias For Unintended Deceleration

Cammy Corrigan
by Cammy Corrigan

The one thing I love about the car industry it its ironic sense of humour. Remember the four dead brands of GM? Who’d have thought SAAB would be the last man standing? When Ford was trading at $1 a share and their stock was labelled “Junk” status, who’s have thought they’d be where they are now? Now, I can’t speak for the rest of the B&B, but I’m, personally, sick of this UA business with Toyota. I’ve been rather sceptical from the start and very little has happened to change my mind. However, the God of Irony is still working in the car industry and whilst I was grazing the internet today, I came across this belter: Unintended deceleration.

The Spec reports that Toyota is announcing the recall of 50,000 Sequoia SUV’s in the United States and Canada. Now what could you think the reason could be? No idea? Well, the God of Irony strikes again. Toyota are recalling these vehicles because of unintended slowing. Yes, if the cars aren’t going too fast, they’re going too slow. The problem comes from an over enthusiastic Electronic stability control system which, at low speeds, could activate and prevent the vehicle from accelerating as it should. “Toyota is voluntarily launching this recall as part of our commitment to investigating customer complaints more aggressively and to responding quickly to issues we identify in our vehicles,” Toyota Canada said via a press release. Good job Toyota performed this recall, it may have saved them another $16.4 million.

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  • Jjster6 Jjster6 on Apr 30, 2010

    Ford is still "JUNK." Junk status is a rating by the credit bureaus. It's based on a prediction about the companies ability to service its debt... and Ford has a mountain of debt. Also, please stop confusing profit with cash flow. A company can be very profitable but not generate cash. Also a company can be very unprofitable but generate mountains of cash. You need to understand financial statements before you start interpreting them (not specific to this article, just a comment about this site in general). Oops, I meant to post this on the story about Ford. My bad.

  • Stencha Klaus Stencha Klaus on Apr 30, 2010

    Traction control systems are for people who don't know how to drive. I prefer cars that do what I tell them to do.

  • Motorhead10 Motorhead10 on Apr 30, 2010

    When I have to cross traffic to merge from a stop, I hit the TRAC OFF button so I avoid bogging (I mix it myself) on ESC. I try to be discreet when my sons are with me - by making in the radio louder and hitting the button. When they see me turn of traction control, they noticeably tense - expecting some mild "stunt driving".

  • GarbageMotorsCo. GarbageMotorsCo. on Apr 30, 2010

    My Chevy and my GMC trucks both had unintentional deceleration. Couple of times actually. Twice when the transmissions failed and once when the rear end blew on the GMC.

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