Toyota acknowledges problems with the Prius brakes
Toyota Prius 2010 - the third generation of hybrid car
Toyota confirms today that the company's hybrid Prius has problems with its anti-lock brakes. According to Toyota there are problems in the cars of the 2010 model year sold before the end of January.
The latest announcement is another blow to the Japanese automaker, which recently forced to recall millions of vehicles since it appeared that accelerators jammed.
Problems with Prius became public last Wednesday, after the Japanese
authorities insisted that the company would investigate the alleged
problems with the brakes on the 2010 model year hybrid car.
In Japan, there have been several accidents due to cars with poor braking performance.
Although U.S. authorities have received complaints from American Prius
owners who felt very weak or completely lost braking performance of
their cars, writes the New York Times.
Problems pile up for Toyota
The past months have been kind of adversity in kind for the world's largest automaker.
Already last fall throttle got stuck in the carpet in some of the models.
Then came reports of a gas pedal for the driver could not stop.
So far, it can involve up 9 million cars Toyota must withdraw. In
Europe the figure is around 1.8 million, of which probably over 50 000
in Sweden.
In Sweden revoked eight models, all of which may have been wrong on the
accelerator. It's Aygo, IQ, Yaris, Auris, Corolla, Verso, Avensis and
Rav4. Prestige Lexus model is not
