Consumer Reports on Toyota Recall

David Champion, Consumer Reports' senior director of automotive testing, spoke to Harry Smith about Toyota's plan to fix it's huge recall for sticky gas pedals and problematic floor mats.

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[Janusha]

As we know now, NASA has cleared Toyota of any faults. There was never a problem and these "unintended accelerations" somehow ALL happened in USA. Nowhere else. The media jumped on it without a single shred of evidence. So did the big 3 car companies in USA. All hoping to claw back some desperately needed market shares from the dominating asians. Toyota did massive recalls at great expense to restore faith in Toyota cars. Not because there was ever actually any fault with their cars.

[matrox]

How does he know it wont do damage to run the at peak above redline?? Why does he think they call it redline? Its because you can damage your engine if you allow it to peak above redline. Consumer Reports magazine is a lousy magazine that spew all types of erroneous info about cars.

[ToyotaCamerySE]

DEFECTIVE TOYOTA CAMRY SE. CORPORATE WILL NOT FIX CAR. Check out my vidio on toyota corporate refusing to fix a defective Toyota Camry Se power steering pump. toyotacameryse on youtube.com and on CNN.com toyota666. Toyota cares are Defective. Please tell the world.

[taledarkside]

Consumer reports always put Toyota as their top 3. You hardly ever seen any european cars being great. And CR doesn't even test cars on reliability

[carquestions .]

Today's News - I guess Consumer Reports missed this one - GM Technical Service bulletin 08-05-25-004A Whats the problem? Nothing newsworthy really, just that your Stability and ABS systems stops working due to a faulty wheel speed sensor. Vehicles affected 07 09 Buick - Terraza, Lucerne, Allure, LaCrosse, Cadillac XLR, DTS, SRX, STS, Corvette, Impala, and a bunch of Pontiacs and Saturns. from carquestions

[lirr408]

Consumers Report has always been biased toward Toyota vehicles. I have had great luck with GM and usually the vehicle I have have been poorly rated by COnsumers. I do not think their tests are unbiased and this recall has people questioning Consumer Reports judgement of cars.

[leelynchen]

Agreed. It gives you and idea just how biased their opinions are. I am an auto engineer and redline DOES harm the engine. But worse yet is the fact that they are completely avoiding the fact that THEY SAID TOYOTAS ARE RELIABLE. That American cars are not. Which one is more "reliable"; one that squeaks a little more but has no history of a disastrous lethal event or one that has great trim and interior but has a mind of its own and decides to pound you through your garage wall? Negligence.