February 9, 2010
Some 2010 Camry Models Also Recalled as Toyota Scrambles to Repair Image Owners of most of the 2010 Prius and Lexus HS 250h hybrids sold in the U.S. since those models were introduced last year will be asked soon to bring them in to a local dealer for a software update to fix a brake system problem the automaker says it has known about for more than a month. ———- 2010 Lexus HS 250h is being recalled along with 2010 Priuses for a brake software fix. ———- And, as the company ratchets up efforts to repair a badly damaged image for customer care, it also has ordered a separate and unrelated recall of some early 2010 Camry models for a power steering hose inspection. That recall is the fourth for Toyota since November, when the company said that the accelerator pedals on more than 5 million models sold over a period of several years could be jammed open by loose floor mats. That recall, to modify the pedal to widen the gap between it and the floor of the cars, was followed late last month by a recall of more than 3 million various models to repair a potentially sticky accelerator pedal – a problem not related to the floor mat issue. The latest major recall, for the hybrids' brake system, affects what has become Toyota's signature model, ad was ordered just hours after company executives in Japan instituted a similar recall for the 2010 Prius, HS 250h and Japanese-market Toyota Sai hybrids in Japan and Europe. In all, some 437,000 Toyota and Lexus hybrid models are being recalled globallly.
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February 9, 2010
Optimism and food were the two abundant commodities at Better Place’s press conference yesterday morning, announcing the company’s first Visitor Center, established – how ironically – inside what used to be an oil tank in Pi Glilot, a former gas depot. It seems that the entire event and the resounding optimism around it were eclipsed
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