A US court case has resulted permitted owners of Toyota vehicles with alleged defects to sue the Japanese car manufacturer for precipitating a fall in value of their cars. The case follows a string of Toyota product recalls over the past two years.
Previous defects in the products had caused the cars accelerate suddenly. Recalls of millions of vehicles began in 2009, with 3.8m defects where the floor mat was at risk of pressing the accelerator pedal. Then, in January 2010, 2.3m cars were withdrawn for accelerator pedals that stuck to the floor mat. For the same reason,…
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