Toyota announces Prius recall

Posted on 12 Feb 2014 by The Manufacturer

Toyota is to recall 1.9m Prius hybrid vehicles – 31,000 in the UK – after discovering a computer software fault which causes the vehicle to abruptly stop.

After receiving 400 reports of problems in North America and Japan, the world’s biggest car manufacturer also confirmed the UK vehicles are models manufactured between March 2009 and February 2014. The new software problem can set off warning lights, and could cause the vehicle to enter a failsafe mode, which will see the car’s driving…

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