Report: Lexus GX 460 Recall Imminent

Here's how stacked the deck is against Toyota. When it does respond, and respond quickly, the Feds leak it so they can say it first.

A "NHTSA official...who declined to be identified" says Toyota is about to issue a recall for the Lexus GX 460 after replicating the same stability issues that caused Consumer Reports to brand it a "safety risk" last week.

Full story from Automotive News.

UPDATE: Toyota, having no choice, has made it official. Details here.

CHP Helps Runaway Toyota Prius Driver Stop Car on San Diego Area Freeway

More details can be read here. Note the correction in the article that the California Highway Patrol now says their patrol car was not used as a brake...but that it was tapped by the Prius only as it rolled to a stop, after the driver was able to shut the car down.

San Diego County is where an off-duty CHP officer and three members of his family were killed last summer in one of the first highly-publicized incidents linked to claims of unintended acceleration in Toyota and Lexus vehicles.

The driver in this case says he took his Prius with a recall notice to his local dealer, where he was told his car wasn't part of the gas pedal recall and repair.

Toyota Recalls Prius, Lexus HS250 h Hybrids

It's official. Toyota is recalling a total of 148,500 hybrid vehicles in the U.S...133,000 2010 Toyota Prius models and 14,500 of the new Lexus HS250h...to update software in the cars' anti-lock brake systems.