Toyota engineers head to New York to examine runaway Prius

Posted: Mar 16, 2010
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Earlier this month, following the runway Prius in San Diego, another Prius experienced a sudden acceleration in New York. Toyota engineers on Wednesday will examine the runaway Prius in Harrison, N.Y. that crashed into a stone wall leaving the driver with minor injuries.

Spokesman Wade Hoyt for Toyota said that the company is sending three to four engineers from its U.S. sales headquarters in Torrance, California and from a regional office in West Caldwell, N.J. to examine the 2005 Prius, which has been stored with Harrison police since the accident.

The engineers will turn over their findings to the police, but will not hold a press conference or share the results with the media, Hoyt said.

“Because of privacy concerns and legal considerations, we seldom announce the results of these tests,” Hoyt said. “The police chief can do what he wants with them.”

Yesterday Toyota held a press conference to share preliminary findings of the technical field examination that was performed on the “runaway Prius” driven by James Sikes. Toyota said that there were “strong indications” that Sikes” account of the event is inconsistent with the findings of their analysis of the hybrid.

- By: Omar Rana

Source: MSNBC


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  • http://bit.ly/bae8Sh Pimp-My-Toyoda

    So after his near crash, the man with the runaway Prius in San Diego gets his car towed to — ready for this — his TOYOTA dealership???!!! So we are supposed to believe that Toyota did “nothing” to the owner's Prius ??? Is everybody (and every media organization) taking a STUPID PILL ???? Not one person, or reporter, or news anchorman asked about this. And then a couple of days later a fat jerk from Toyota USA comes out to say that “there's nothing wrong with the Prius” and that everything the owner of the Prius says is crap. Well guess what Toyota…we don't buy it. There are rumors coming from one of Toyota's past corporate lawyers that they knew about these brake and acceleration issues but tried to hide it. So what's the only card left for Toyota to play ? Make every owner of a Prius, or a Camry, or an Avalon, think twice about publicly complaining about their problematic cars. And don't let their President Akio Toyoda try to cry it off…..don't forget he bacame President last summer just after being a VP in charge of quality assurance and global operations while these crap cars were being made. Well the joke is on them. More Toyota cars will go crazy on their owners and Toyota's share of the world market will go down to 5 %. The only remaining people crazy enough to buy Toyotas will be politicians with Toyota factories in their states and 70 year old grannies who have very little to live for anyway. Wake up World !

  • Big Will

    Completely AGREE! … The worst part is Toyota released this “MEMO” stating that there is nothing wrong with the Toyota and turning the man into a liar.

    READ THE MEMO ! … “the brakes and rotors needed to be replaced before testing could be done” !!!! exclamation point exclamation point …..

    If Toyota can now apply to all criminal cases this would be the result. If you shoot and kill somebody you will not be found liable unless; somebody can replicate the exact murder with the same gun and shoot the person at the same place and have that same person die of the same death from the bullet hitting them in the same exact location.

    TOYOTA IS NOT DOING ANYTHING ! THEY ARE DRIVING THE DAMN CARS AROUND THE BLOCK SAYING … NOPE .. couldn't replicate it ! Nothing Wrong Here !