First official pictures
13 March 2010 21:00
This is the fourth-generation BMW 5-series Touring, and it’s the third and final model to join the German car company’s Five range after the saloon and 5 GT.
Has the new BMW 5-series Touring got a bigger boot than before?
Yes, and if you happen to cart water around for a living the increase of 60 litres to 560 litres might mean something to you. To the rest of us, it means harassed mothers and fathers will now be able to carry just a bit more of whatever clobber their lovely children need.
All Five Tourings also have 40/20/40 flat-folding rear seats, a boot cover that retracts and lowers with the boot lid, and the glass window in the tailgate opens separately to aid practicality too. Rear air suspension is standard as well, along with luxuries like leather, automatic air conditioning and parking sensors.
Inside it’s the same as the 5-series saloon with an interior inspired by the bigger 7-series, while an automatic parking system, four-wheel steering, head-up display, night vision and a speed limit recognition device are all options.
What powerplants can I have?
To start with there’s a choice of two petrol (523i and 535i) and two diesel (520d and 530d) engines. The full spec is below:
Model Price Power Torque 0-62mph (secs) MPG CO2 (g/km) Top speed
520d £30,380
181bhp 280lb ft 8.3 54.3 (53.3)
137 (139)
138 (137)
530d £39,400 242bhp 465lb ft 6.4 44.1 (44.8)
169 (165)
151 (150)
523i £33,585
201bhp 199lb ft 8.2 (8.4) 35.8 (36.2)
185 (182) 144 (141)
535i £39,650
302bhp 295lb ft 6.0 (6.1) 32.8 (33.2)
201 (197)
155 limited
N.B. Figures in brackets denote eight-speed automatic
The UK is the third largest market for the 5-series Touring, and the 520d is expected to be the biggest seller here. It comes with start/stop tech as standard, all Touring models come with a six-speed manual as the default gearbox (an eight-speed auto is an option), and BMW’s Efficient Dynamics tech (including active aerodynamics and electric power steering) is fitted across the entire range. The new 5-series Touring goes on sale on 18 September 2010.
So now that’s out of the way we can start salivating at the prospect of the new M5.
Monday, March 15, 2010
Friday, March 12, 2010
News watch March 2010: today's auto industry news
Welcome to CAR's news aggregator as we round up the seismic change in the auto industry. Top tip: news summaries are added from the top hour-by-hour
Thursday 11 March 2010
• Toyota expects US sales in March to rise 30% on the back of incentives introduced to convince waivering buyers at the beginning of the month. Sales dropped 10% in February after Toyota’s recall problems (Automotive News)
• GM boss Ed Whitacre says the company is on track to repay the $8bn loans from the US and Canadian governments before the June deadline. ‘We have restructured and the progress that we've made, I believe, is sustainable’ (Reuters)
• GM is considering ditching the Daewoo name in its home market, South Korea, according to GM Daewoo president Mike Arcamone. ‘We are making some significant changes in our strategy in our home market. Our domestic sales are not acceptable,’ he told the FT (Financial Times)
• Hummer production is restarting for a month as General Motors honours a commercial fleet order of around 800 vehicles. Production originally stopped in January as no suitable buyers were found for the company. GM has said that it is still open to new offers (New York Daily News)
Wednesday 10 March 2010
• Geely has found the £1.2bn it needs to buy Volvo, according to Swedish business paper Dagens Industri. Chinese banks and regional government bodies have already given the money to the company, but the final agreement between Geely and Ford has yet to be signed (Reuters)
• Audi bosses are confident they can increase the 2009 profit of £1.2bn this year. Daimler made a £2.3bn loss during the same period, while BMW is expected to announce a small profit next week. Audi CEO Rupert Stadler said: ‘With a profit margin before tax of 6.5%, we stood out significantly in comparison with our competitors’ (Financial Times)
• Meanwhile, ahead of its financial results, BMW has announced that it is seeing a ‘definite upturn’ in almost all car markets after seeing a 14% increase in sales in February (Automotive News Europe)
• Saab is to restart delivery of cars to North America after a six-month break in supply following its sale to Spyker. The company also intends to knock 4-12% off the list price of its US cars to stimulate demand. The new 9-5 saloon launches in the summer (Automotive News)
• Mazda is considering installing a brake override system on their new cars following Toyota’s recall problems. The system will give braking priority when both the brake and accelerator pedals are depressed (Automotive News)
• Mitsubishi plans to make 100,000 EVs for Peugeot and Citroën based on the i-MiEV over the next five years. The exterior and interior styling on both models is expected to be changed from the i-MiEV, which goes on sale in the UK in 2011 (Automotive News)
• CO2 emissions of new cars sold under the UK scrappage scheme are a third lower than the cars they have replaced, according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders. Scrappage accounted for nearly a fifth of sales in February (SMMT)
Tuesday 9 March 2010
• Toyota has rejected claims that dodgy electronics are behind the 8m-car recall. Toyota held a press conference yesterday at which it presented Stanford University research saying there was 'no real-world' evidence of iffy electrics (BBC News)
• VW is planning to increase its share of the electric car market from 0 to 3% by 2018. Chief exec Martin Winterkorn said it planned 'an unprecedented' drive into the EV market (Financial Times)
• Mazda's new design chief Ikuo Maeda, who took over last April, has admitted to AN that he'd like to revive the RX-7. 'I do have a strong yearning to revive the RX-7 during my tenure, but in order for that to happen we need the US economy to come back' (Automotive News)
• Daimler has sold its 5.3% stake in Tata Motors (Financial Times)
Monday 8 March 2010
• Vincent Rambaud is the new CEO of Automobiles Peugeot from 2 April 2010; he will report to Jean-Marc Gales, the uber-boss at PSA Peugeot Citroën. Rambaud is 51 and was previously director of PSA's Latin American zone (PSA)
• Gales said: 'Vincent Rambaud's international experience will be a strong factor in successfully meeting the challenge of Peugeot's globalisation, at a time when the marque, on the strength of a new identity and a totally revamped, expanded range, is rediscovering a growth dynamic' (PSA)
• Ferrari of North America's new boss Marco Mattiacci is confident new models such as the 458 Italia will pep up sales in the US (Automotive News)
• Audi sales worldwide leaped 20% in February, boosting the Q1 performance. Global sales and marketing chief Peter Schwarzenbauer said China and western Europe had been the strongest performing areas (Automotive News Europe)
• The new Jaguar XJ has safeguarded around 2000 jobs in the West Midlands, says car industry body Accelerate. Around 400 Jaguar staff work on the XJ, but Accelerate says every JLR jobs supports five others locally in the supply chain (BBC News)
• New GM chairman and CEO Ed Whitacre is flying for free on AT&T corporate jets as part of his severance package with the telecoms giant. Whitacre retired in 2007 with a $158m package that lets him fly on AT&T corporate jets for up to 10 hours a month – bypassing the embarrassment of GM's private jets that were slated when the car maker begged Washington for a bail-out (Detroit News)
Friday 5 March 2010
• More than 60 complaints have been received by Toyota owners who claim their cars are still accelerating unintentionally even after repairs to their throttles (Financial Times)
• Toyota president Akio Toyoda wore a worker's uniform to address 9000 workers in Japan. He spoke of his appearance before the US Congress and his desire to move Toyota forwards again (BBC News)
• GM has dismissed some of its top managers as part of a shake-up including up to 18 senior staff (Automotive News)
• Rental car firm Europcar has placed an order for 500 zero-emissions electric Renaults (Renault)
• Ford has confirmed plans to build five full electric and hybrid cars in Europe by 2013: the Ford Transit Connect Electric arrives first in 2011, the Focus Electric in 2012, two new hybrids in 2013 and a full plug-in hybrid vehicles in 2013 (Ford)
Thursday 4 March 2010
• UK car sales are bouncing back – February registrations rose 26% with the same month last year. The SMMT trade body said 68,686 cars were sold last month and Ford's Fiesta and Focus were the best sellers (BBC News)
• GM grandee Bob Lutz will retire on 1 May. Lutz, who heads up product development globally, has already retired once and then pulled a U-turn to help pull GM out of bankruptcy. 'There is something that gets old about getting up at 4.30am in the morning,' he told AN at the Geneva show. 'At some point you have to do something new' (Automotive News)
• Mitsubishi and PSA considered a tie-up with an equity share, but in the end decided not to. Their chief executives Philippe Varin and Osamu Masuko had been deep in discussions but decided in Geneva on Tuesday to announce they were abandoning a capital alliance (Detroit News)
• The Renault Formula One team has announced a surprise tie-up with Lada (Renault)
Wednesday 3 March 2010
• Nissan is recalling nearly 540,000 pick-ups, sports utes and minivans, mostly in the US, to fix potentially faulty brake pedal pins and faulty fuel gauges (BBC News)
• Meanwhile, Renault-Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn says he is still looking for a global technology partner. He was rebuffed by GM three years ago and Chrysler last year (Automotive News)
• BMW will lease up to 700 electric 1-series to customers around the world in the second wave of its Project i electric car trials. It's already run 450 electric Minis (Automotive News)
• Renault confirms that the Dacia brand will come to the UK in 2012 (Renault)
Tuesday 2 March 2010
• GM will contribute €1.9 billion towards the restructuring of Opel and Vauxhall – more than triple its previous pledge of €600m. Opel CEO Nick Reilly said the payment would be made by equity and loans, giving Opel enough cash to operate throughout 2010 (Automotive News)
• Ford has reported a 43% jump in US sales in February, shooting it ahead of arch rival General Motors. GM itself rose 12%, analysts claiming the Toyota recall has driven its customers to Detroit giants (BBC News)
• Fiat unveils a new Twin-Air – a two-cylinder engine claimed to be the world's cleanest petrol engine. Sales start in the 500 in September and it's claimed to be 30% cleaner than existing four-cylinder engines (Automotive News)
Monday 1 March 2010
• All of team CAR are heading out to the Geneva motor show. A bit light on news gathering today!
Thursday 11 March 2010
• Toyota expects US sales in March to rise 30% on the back of incentives introduced to convince waivering buyers at the beginning of the month. Sales dropped 10% in February after Toyota’s recall problems (Automotive News)
• GM boss Ed Whitacre says the company is on track to repay the $8bn loans from the US and Canadian governments before the June deadline. ‘We have restructured and the progress that we've made, I believe, is sustainable’ (Reuters)
• GM is considering ditching the Daewoo name in its home market, South Korea, according to GM Daewoo president Mike Arcamone. ‘We are making some significant changes in our strategy in our home market. Our domestic sales are not acceptable,’ he told the FT (Financial Times)
• Hummer production is restarting for a month as General Motors honours a commercial fleet order of around 800 vehicles. Production originally stopped in January as no suitable buyers were found for the company. GM has said that it is still open to new offers (New York Daily News)
Wednesday 10 March 2010
• Geely has found the £1.2bn it needs to buy Volvo, according to Swedish business paper Dagens Industri. Chinese banks and regional government bodies have already given the money to the company, but the final agreement between Geely and Ford has yet to be signed (Reuters)
• Audi bosses are confident they can increase the 2009 profit of £1.2bn this year. Daimler made a £2.3bn loss during the same period, while BMW is expected to announce a small profit next week. Audi CEO Rupert Stadler said: ‘With a profit margin before tax of 6.5%, we stood out significantly in comparison with our competitors’ (Financial Times)
• Meanwhile, ahead of its financial results, BMW has announced that it is seeing a ‘definite upturn’ in almost all car markets after seeing a 14% increase in sales in February (Automotive News Europe)
• Saab is to restart delivery of cars to North America after a six-month break in supply following its sale to Spyker. The company also intends to knock 4-12% off the list price of its US cars to stimulate demand. The new 9-5 saloon launches in the summer (Automotive News)
• Mazda is considering installing a brake override system on their new cars following Toyota’s recall problems. The system will give braking priority when both the brake and accelerator pedals are depressed (Automotive News)
• Mitsubishi plans to make 100,000 EVs for Peugeot and Citroën based on the i-MiEV over the next five years. The exterior and interior styling on both models is expected to be changed from the i-MiEV, which goes on sale in the UK in 2011 (Automotive News)
• CO2 emissions of new cars sold under the UK scrappage scheme are a third lower than the cars they have replaced, according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders. Scrappage accounted for nearly a fifth of sales in February (SMMT)
Tuesday 9 March 2010
• Toyota has rejected claims that dodgy electronics are behind the 8m-car recall. Toyota held a press conference yesterday at which it presented Stanford University research saying there was 'no real-world' evidence of iffy electrics (BBC News)
• VW is planning to increase its share of the electric car market from 0 to 3% by 2018. Chief exec Martin Winterkorn said it planned 'an unprecedented' drive into the EV market (Financial Times)
• Mazda's new design chief Ikuo Maeda, who took over last April, has admitted to AN that he'd like to revive the RX-7. 'I do have a strong yearning to revive the RX-7 during my tenure, but in order for that to happen we need the US economy to come back' (Automotive News)
• Daimler has sold its 5.3% stake in Tata Motors (Financial Times)
Monday 8 March 2010
• Vincent Rambaud is the new CEO of Automobiles Peugeot from 2 April 2010; he will report to Jean-Marc Gales, the uber-boss at PSA Peugeot Citroën. Rambaud is 51 and was previously director of PSA's Latin American zone (PSA)
• Gales said: 'Vincent Rambaud's international experience will be a strong factor in successfully meeting the challenge of Peugeot's globalisation, at a time when the marque, on the strength of a new identity and a totally revamped, expanded range, is rediscovering a growth dynamic' (PSA)
• Ferrari of North America's new boss Marco Mattiacci is confident new models such as the 458 Italia will pep up sales in the US (Automotive News)
• Audi sales worldwide leaped 20% in February, boosting the Q1 performance. Global sales and marketing chief Peter Schwarzenbauer said China and western Europe had been the strongest performing areas (Automotive News Europe)
• The new Jaguar XJ has safeguarded around 2000 jobs in the West Midlands, says car industry body Accelerate. Around 400 Jaguar staff work on the XJ, but Accelerate says every JLR jobs supports five others locally in the supply chain (BBC News)
• New GM chairman and CEO Ed Whitacre is flying for free on AT&T corporate jets as part of his severance package with the telecoms giant. Whitacre retired in 2007 with a $158m package that lets him fly on AT&T corporate jets for up to 10 hours a month – bypassing the embarrassment of GM's private jets that were slated when the car maker begged Washington for a bail-out (Detroit News)
Friday 5 March 2010
• More than 60 complaints have been received by Toyota owners who claim their cars are still accelerating unintentionally even after repairs to their throttles (Financial Times)
• Toyota president Akio Toyoda wore a worker's uniform to address 9000 workers in Japan. He spoke of his appearance before the US Congress and his desire to move Toyota forwards again (BBC News)
• GM has dismissed some of its top managers as part of a shake-up including up to 18 senior staff (Automotive News)
• Rental car firm Europcar has placed an order for 500 zero-emissions electric Renaults (Renault)
• Ford has confirmed plans to build five full electric and hybrid cars in Europe by 2013: the Ford Transit Connect Electric arrives first in 2011, the Focus Electric in 2012, two new hybrids in 2013 and a full plug-in hybrid vehicles in 2013 (Ford)
Thursday 4 March 2010
• UK car sales are bouncing back – February registrations rose 26% with the same month last year. The SMMT trade body said 68,686 cars were sold last month and Ford's Fiesta and Focus were the best sellers (BBC News)
• GM grandee Bob Lutz will retire on 1 May. Lutz, who heads up product development globally, has already retired once and then pulled a U-turn to help pull GM out of bankruptcy. 'There is something that gets old about getting up at 4.30am in the morning,' he told AN at the Geneva show. 'At some point you have to do something new' (Automotive News)
• Mitsubishi and PSA considered a tie-up with an equity share, but in the end decided not to. Their chief executives Philippe Varin and Osamu Masuko had been deep in discussions but decided in Geneva on Tuesday to announce they were abandoning a capital alliance (Detroit News)
• The Renault Formula One team has announced a surprise tie-up with Lada (Renault)
Wednesday 3 March 2010
• Nissan is recalling nearly 540,000 pick-ups, sports utes and minivans, mostly in the US, to fix potentially faulty brake pedal pins and faulty fuel gauges (BBC News)
• Meanwhile, Renault-Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn says he is still looking for a global technology partner. He was rebuffed by GM three years ago and Chrysler last year (Automotive News)
• BMW will lease up to 700 electric 1-series to customers around the world in the second wave of its Project i electric car trials. It's already run 450 electric Minis (Automotive News)
• Renault confirms that the Dacia brand will come to the UK in 2012 (Renault)
Tuesday 2 March 2010
• GM will contribute €1.9 billion towards the restructuring of Opel and Vauxhall – more than triple its previous pledge of €600m. Opel CEO Nick Reilly said the payment would be made by equity and loans, giving Opel enough cash to operate throughout 2010 (Automotive News)
• Ford has reported a 43% jump in US sales in February, shooting it ahead of arch rival General Motors. GM itself rose 12%, analysts claiming the Toyota recall has driven its customers to Detroit giants (BBC News)
• Fiat unveils a new Twin-Air – a two-cylinder engine claimed to be the world's cleanest petrol engine. Sales start in the 500 in September and it's claimed to be 30% cleaner than existing four-cylinder engines (Automotive News)
Monday 1 March 2010
• All of team CAR are heading out to the Geneva motor show. A bit light on news gathering today!
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Mercedes’ AMG division unveils new twin-turbo V8
Mercedes’ AMG division unveils new twin-turbo V8
By Ben Pulman
First official pictures
09 March 2010 14:14
Those obsessed with torque bemoaned Mercedes’ high-revving 6.2-litre V8 when it was launched in 2005, but just as the world has come to accept the naturally aspirated engine, the company has now unveiled a new twin-turbo 5.5-litre V8.
Power and torque. Power and torque. How much grunt has this new engine got?
Up to 563bhp – which is the same as the SLS AMG – and 663lb ft, which is much more than the 479lb ft the modern-day Gullwing supercar manages.
The engine is an all-new 5.5-litre V8 (5461cc to be exact) with direct-injection technology, an aluminium crankcase and two turbochargers. In standard tune the engine produces 544bhp at 5500rpm and 590lb ft at 2000-4500rpm. Cough up for the AMG Performance Package (which ups the maximum charge pressure from 1.0 to 1.3 bar) and those figures will increase to 563bhp (at the same 5500rpm) and 663lb ft at 2500-3750rpm.
Of course the new engine is cleaner and more efficient too. Thanks to a seven-speed wet-clutch auto and stop/start tech (which works with the gearbox’s Controlled Efficiency setting) the 5.5-litre engine achieves 26.9mpg and 246g/km CO2 (versus 19.5 and 347g/km for the S63 AMG is replaces), which are reductions of 25% and 28.5% respectively. And that’s despite it besting the S63’s 518bhp and 464lb ft, the latter by quite some margin too.
And it’s faster as well, though we’re talking tenths here – 62mph comes up in 4.5 seconds (4.4 with the Performance Pack) while the outgoing S63 took a yawning 4.6 seconds. The top speed is still limited to 155mph, though again those paying the extra cash for the PP have a higher electronic threshold of 188mph.
Is the S63 AMG still an S63 AMG?
Yes, there’s no 55 badging here – the 63 moniker has historical significance for Mercedes. That means from this summer the S63 AMG will be running the new 5.5, and the very first car to receive the engine is an S-class that’s been dressed up to look like the 300 SEL 6.8 AMG. The purple limo gets historically accurate stickers, plus a stripped-out interior (but complete with wood trim inspired by the classic racer), huge 20-inch wheels and tyres, plus a 4.5-inch wider front bumper.
By Ben Pulman
First official pictures
09 March 2010 14:14
Those obsessed with torque bemoaned Mercedes’ high-revving 6.2-litre V8 when it was launched in 2005, but just as the world has come to accept the naturally aspirated engine, the company has now unveiled a new twin-turbo 5.5-litre V8.
Power and torque. Power and torque. How much grunt has this new engine got?
Up to 563bhp – which is the same as the SLS AMG – and 663lb ft, which is much more than the 479lb ft the modern-day Gullwing supercar manages.
The engine is an all-new 5.5-litre V8 (5461cc to be exact) with direct-injection technology, an aluminium crankcase and two turbochargers. In standard tune the engine produces 544bhp at 5500rpm and 590lb ft at 2000-4500rpm. Cough up for the AMG Performance Package (which ups the maximum charge pressure from 1.0 to 1.3 bar) and those figures will increase to 563bhp (at the same 5500rpm) and 663lb ft at 2500-3750rpm.
Of course the new engine is cleaner and more efficient too. Thanks to a seven-speed wet-clutch auto and stop/start tech (which works with the gearbox’s Controlled Efficiency setting) the 5.5-litre engine achieves 26.9mpg and 246g/km CO2 (versus 19.5 and 347g/km for the S63 AMG is replaces), which are reductions of 25% and 28.5% respectively. And that’s despite it besting the S63’s 518bhp and 464lb ft, the latter by quite some margin too.
And it’s faster as well, though we’re talking tenths here – 62mph comes up in 4.5 seconds (4.4 with the Performance Pack) while the outgoing S63 took a yawning 4.6 seconds. The top speed is still limited to 155mph, though again those paying the extra cash for the PP have a higher electronic threshold of 188mph.
Is the S63 AMG still an S63 AMG?
Yes, there’s no 55 badging here – the 63 moniker has historical significance for Mercedes. That means from this summer the S63 AMG will be running the new 5.5, and the very first car to receive the engine is an S-class that’s been dressed up to look like the 300 SEL 6.8 AMG. The purple limo gets historically accurate stickers, plus a stripped-out interior (but complete with wood trim inspired by the classic racer), huge 20-inch wheels and tyres, plus a 4.5-inch wider front bumper.
Saturday, March 6, 2010
TOYOTA
Congressional Hearings:
Toyota Statement on Rebuttal of Professor Gilbert’s 'Unintended Acceleration' Demonstration (March 5, 2010)
Toyota Responds to Waxman Committee Request (March 5, 2010)
Takeshi Uchiyamada: Testimony to Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation (March 2, 2010)
Shinichi Sasaki: Testimony to Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation (March 2, 2010)
Yoshi Inaba: Testimony to Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation (March 2, 2010)
Toyota Statement on Media Reports Regarding Internal Legal Memo (Feb. 28, 2010)
Toyota Statement on Letter From Chairman Towns (Feb. 26, 2010)
Toyota Statement on the Visit Between Toyota President Akio Toyoda and Department of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood (Feb. 25, 2010)
Clarification of Testimony Regarding Effectiveness of Recalls (Feb. 24, 2010)
Akio Toyoda: Testimony to House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform (Feb. 24, 2010)
Yoshimi Inaba: Testimony to House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform (Feb. 24, 2010)
James Lentz: Testimony to House Committee on Energy and Commerce (Feb. 23, 2010)
Toyota Update: Our Work with Exponent (Feb. 23, 2010)
Toyota Statement Regarding Documents Shared with Congressional Committees (Feb. 21, 2010)
Statement from Akio Toyoda Responding to Invitation to Testify Before the House Committee on Oversight & Government Reform (Feb. 18, 2010)
2010 Tacoma Voluntary Recall:
Former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Rodney Slater to Lead Independant North American Quality Advisory Panel for Toyota (March 2, 2010)
Our Pledge to Toyota Drivers Ad (March 2, 2010)
Toyota Extends Additional Services to all U.S. Toyota and Lexus Customers Affected by Recent Recalls (Feb. 26, 2010)
Toyota to Provide Additional Services to New York Customers Affected by Recent Recalls (Feb. 24, 2010)
Toyota Extends Brake Override System to Provide an Additional Measure of Customer Confidence (Feb. 22, 2010)
Our Commitment to Customers Ad (Feb. 18, 2010)
TMC Details Approach to Quality-Related Matters (Feb. 17, 2010)
Toyota Motor Corporation Press Conference on Quality - Akio Toyoda (Feb. 17, 2010)
Toyota Motor Corporation Press Conference On Quality - Shinichi Sasaki (Feb. 17, 2010)
Toyota Announces Voluntary Recall on 8,000 2010 Model Year Tacoma 4WD Trucks to Inspect the Front Drive Shaft (Feb. 12, 2010)
2010 Prius/2010 Lexus HS 250h/Camry Voluntary Recalls:
Former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Rodney Slater to Lead Independant North American Quality Advisory Panel for Toyota (March 2, 2010)
Our Pledge to Toyota Drivers Ad (March 2, 2010)
Toyota Extends Additional Services to all U.S. Toyota and Lexus Customers Affected by Recent Recalls (Feb. 26, 2010)
Toyota to Provide Additional Services to New York Customers Affected by Recent Recalls (Feb. 24, 2010)
Our Commitment to Customers Ad (Feb. 18, 2010)
TMC Details Approach to Quality-Related Matters (Feb. 17, 2010)
Toyota Motor Corporation Press Conference on Quality - Akio Toyoda (Feb. 17, 2010)
Toyota Motor Corporation Press Conference On Quality - Shinichi Sasaki (Feb. 17, 2010)
Toyota's Pledge to You Ad (Feb. 10, 2010)
FAQs About the 2010 Prius/2010 Lexus HS 250h/Camry Voluntary Recalls (Feb. 8, 2010)
Toyota Announces Voluntary Recall on 2010 Model-Year Prius and 2010 Lexus HS 250h Vehicles to Update ABS Software (Feb. 8, 2010)
Updated Statement from Toyota Regarding Prius Brake Issue (Feb. 4, 2010)
Statement from Toyota Regarding Prius Brake Issue (Feb. 4, 2010)
Statement Regarding 2010 Model Year Prius Inconsistent Brake Feeling (Feb. 3, 2010)
Toyota Statement on Rebuttal of Professor Gilbert’s 'Unintended Acceleration' Demonstration (March 5, 2010)
Toyota Responds to Waxman Committee Request (March 5, 2010)
Takeshi Uchiyamada: Testimony to Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation (March 2, 2010)
Shinichi Sasaki: Testimony to Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation (March 2, 2010)
Yoshi Inaba: Testimony to Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation (March 2, 2010)
Toyota Statement on Media Reports Regarding Internal Legal Memo (Feb. 28, 2010)
Toyota Statement on Letter From Chairman Towns (Feb. 26, 2010)
Toyota Statement on the Visit Between Toyota President Akio Toyoda and Department of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood (Feb. 25, 2010)
Clarification of Testimony Regarding Effectiveness of Recalls (Feb. 24, 2010)
Akio Toyoda: Testimony to House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform (Feb. 24, 2010)
Yoshimi Inaba: Testimony to House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform (Feb. 24, 2010)
James Lentz: Testimony to House Committee on Energy and Commerce (Feb. 23, 2010)
Toyota Update: Our Work with Exponent (Feb. 23, 2010)
Toyota Statement Regarding Documents Shared with Congressional Committees (Feb. 21, 2010)
Statement from Akio Toyoda Responding to Invitation to Testify Before the House Committee on Oversight & Government Reform (Feb. 18, 2010)
2010 Tacoma Voluntary Recall:
Former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Rodney Slater to Lead Independant North American Quality Advisory Panel for Toyota (March 2, 2010)
Our Pledge to Toyota Drivers Ad (March 2, 2010)
Toyota Extends Additional Services to all U.S. Toyota and Lexus Customers Affected by Recent Recalls (Feb. 26, 2010)
Toyota to Provide Additional Services to New York Customers Affected by Recent Recalls (Feb. 24, 2010)
Toyota Extends Brake Override System to Provide an Additional Measure of Customer Confidence (Feb. 22, 2010)
Our Commitment to Customers Ad (Feb. 18, 2010)
TMC Details Approach to Quality-Related Matters (Feb. 17, 2010)
Toyota Motor Corporation Press Conference on Quality - Akio Toyoda (Feb. 17, 2010)
Toyota Motor Corporation Press Conference On Quality - Shinichi Sasaki (Feb. 17, 2010)
Toyota Announces Voluntary Recall on 8,000 2010 Model Year Tacoma 4WD Trucks to Inspect the Front Drive Shaft (Feb. 12, 2010)
2010 Prius/2010 Lexus HS 250h/Camry Voluntary Recalls:
Former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Rodney Slater to Lead Independant North American Quality Advisory Panel for Toyota (March 2, 2010)
Our Pledge to Toyota Drivers Ad (March 2, 2010)
Toyota Extends Additional Services to all U.S. Toyota and Lexus Customers Affected by Recent Recalls (Feb. 26, 2010)
Toyota to Provide Additional Services to New York Customers Affected by Recent Recalls (Feb. 24, 2010)
Our Commitment to Customers Ad (Feb. 18, 2010)
TMC Details Approach to Quality-Related Matters (Feb. 17, 2010)
Toyota Motor Corporation Press Conference on Quality - Akio Toyoda (Feb. 17, 2010)
Toyota Motor Corporation Press Conference On Quality - Shinichi Sasaki (Feb. 17, 2010)
Toyota's Pledge to You Ad (Feb. 10, 2010)
FAQs About the 2010 Prius/2010 Lexus HS 250h/Camry Voluntary Recalls (Feb. 8, 2010)
Toyota Announces Voluntary Recall on 2010 Model-Year Prius and 2010 Lexus HS 250h Vehicles to Update ABS Software (Feb. 8, 2010)
Updated Statement from Toyota Regarding Prius Brake Issue (Feb. 4, 2010)
Statement from Toyota Regarding Prius Brake Issue (Feb. 4, 2010)
Statement Regarding 2010 Model Year Prius Inconsistent Brake Feeling (Feb. 3, 2010)
News
Toyota Statement on Rebuttal of Professor Gilbert’s 'Unintended Acceleration' Demonstration
Click here for more information about the Safety Recall Campaigns
Customer FAQs Regarding the Sticking Accelerator Pedal and Floor Mat Pedal Entrapment Recalls
Click here for FAQs About the 2010 Prius/2010 Lexus HS 250h/Camry Voluntary Recalls
Toyota and Exponent have provided Professor David Gilbert of Southern Illinois University with the results of their thorough evaluations of his demonstration of apparent “unintended acceleration” in Toyota and Lexus vehicles as described in his Preliminary Report and in his testimony at recent Congressional hearings. In evaluating Professor Gilbert’s claims, Exponent also analyzed the footage of Professor Gilbert’s appearance on ABC News on February 22, 2010.
Toyota has also supplied the results of these evaluations to the appropriate Congressional Committees. The analysis of Professor’s Gilbert’s demonstration establishes that he has reengineered and rewired the signals from the accelerator pedal. This rewired circuit is highly unlikely to occur naturally and can only be contrived in a laboratory. There is no evidence to suggest that this highly unlikely scenario has ever occurred in the real world. As shown in the Exponent and Toyota evaluations, with such artificial modifications, similar results can be obtained in other vehicles.
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Customer FAQs Regarding the Sticking Accelerator Pedal and Floor Mat Pedal Entrapment Recalls
Click here for FAQs About the 2010 Prius/2010 Lexus HS 250h/Camry Voluntary Recalls
Toyota and Exponent have provided Professor David Gilbert of Southern Illinois University with the results of their thorough evaluations of his demonstration of apparent “unintended acceleration” in Toyota and Lexus vehicles as described in his Preliminary Report and in his testimony at recent Congressional hearings. In evaluating Professor Gilbert’s claims, Exponent also analyzed the footage of Professor Gilbert’s appearance on ABC News on February 22, 2010.
Toyota has also supplied the results of these evaluations to the appropriate Congressional Committees. The analysis of Professor’s Gilbert’s demonstration establishes that he has reengineered and rewired the signals from the accelerator pedal. This rewired circuit is highly unlikely to occur naturally and can only be contrived in a laboratory. There is no evidence to suggest that this highly unlikely scenario has ever occurred in the real world. As shown in the Exponent and Toyota evaluations, with such artificial modifications, similar results can be obtained in other vehicles.
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