Toyota will still have you believe this; but in the whole grisly affair of the vehicle recalls that have plagued Toyota this past year, news has come out that the company knew about a very serious safety issue way back in 2007. The company just did not do anything about it until it was forced to; people have been dropping like flies because the Toyota cars malfunctioned; the unofficial estimate puts it at a hundred car crashes.
But the definitive evidence came only last August, in a crash in San Diego. An entire family of four in a Lexus died when their vehicle accelerated uncontrollably, rolled over several times and burst into flames. Now, Toyota has no choice but to acknowledge publicly, that there have been mistakes made.
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