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Toyota Angry with GM: Taxpayers Money Used for Incentives

We all know that Toyota are having a few issues with their vehicles, which has resulted in over 8 million of them being recalled. General Motors have had their own hassles but smelt blood and went after the Japanese automakers customers – by offering incentives to them.

Both Toyota and Lexus owners were targeted in this campaign – but the automaker has now launched an attack on GM, saying that the incentives was used at the expense of the taxpayer. The reason is simple – the U.S. government owns a 60 percent stake in General Motors. So if you think about it, you have not saved money buying a new GM vehicle – you already paid for it out of your taxes.

According to Autoblog, Toyota states that GM has been reckless, but there is no proof to back this up. We know that the American government own a majority stake in the Detroit auto company, but they are still allowed to run as an autonomously.

Do you agree that GM should be offering these incentives?

By Peter Chubb

Latest Toyota Prius Crash: Believed on recall list

There has been a lot of news surrounding Toyota’s Prius, you may well have read our recent post about how Toyota could have to swallow more than 3 billion dollars in lawsuits, or seen the video on how to stop a runaway Prius.

However it would seem that a New York driver did not see this video when he had to convince the police that his Toyota Prius had accelerated on its own, down a driveway, finally coming to rest in a stone wall across the road.

According to AP, more than 8 million vehicles have been recalled due to the highlighted accelerator pedal problem caused by trapping under floor mats or becoming sticky.

In this latest incident the vehicle was believed to be on the recall list but there was no immediate proof that a sticky accelerator was to blame, and although the airbags were deployed the driver escaped unharmed.

Head over to AP to read the full story on this latest Prius accident. Have you been affected by any of the Toyota recalls?

By Joe Pettman

Video: Runaway Toyota Prius: How to Stop One

There seems to be many mores cases of runaway Toyota Prius vehicles – the most recent being the one that involved the help of the police – see recent post. The driver of the Hybrid had no idea what to do when his car was traveling at 94mph and could not bring it to a stop.

Thankfully we have located three videos that show you how to bring your Prius to a complete stop. The advice about how to stop these runaway gas/electric vehicles was offered by car experts and police.

SF Gate explains that Carolyn Coquillette – owner and lead technician of San Francisco’s Luscious Garage in the three videos below. She shows you how you can just shift the vehicles into neutral or to shut off the engine to come to a complete stop.

By Peter Chubb