Thread: Toyota Prius Investigation: Story made up?

This man claims to have gone over 90 miles an hour in a Toyota Prius?

I call bullshit!

My mom is worrying herself sick over this. She bought a Toyota Camry a week before this stuff started showing up in the news. She's afraid to drive it, but it's a brand new car, what can she do? Can't give it back, unfortunately. Bastards.

I'm guessing the camry's weren't part of the recall? Plus, if it's brand new, I would think she could return it within a certain amount of time.

Well sh_t.

Originally Posted by b12

This man claims to have gone over 90 miles an hour in a Toyota Prius?

I call bullshit!

The story looks bogus to me. A newspaper here did a little test, they got into a primus, floored the accelerator and tried hitting the brakes simultaneously. The car stopped. They also tried out two other ways of stopping the car, namely turning off the ingition and setting the car in neutral. Both worked.

Originally Posted by Aquanina

My mom is worrying herself sick over this. She bought a Toyota Camry a week before this stuff started showing up in the news. She's afraid to drive it, but it's a brand new car, what can she do? Can't give it back, unfortunately. Bastards.

Aren't all of these problems caused by the floor mats? If so can't she just take the floor mat out of the car?

I'd side with Toyota on this one, except for the fact that all the "investigations" were done by the company itself.

Who's to stop either the guy or the company from making shit up.

Anyway Nina I didn't think this was about Camrys... I hope your mom does drive it eventually, the only car I own is a '99 Camry and it hasn't had any problems in over a decade.

Originally Posted by Mes Tarrant

I'd side with Toyota on this one, except for the fact that all the "investigations" were done by the company itself.

I think if they were smart, they would do a recall if they really did find something so they could avoid lawsuits. Ofcourse people would continue to drive them if they knew there was a recall and hope to experience the problem. People do anything for money.

Maybe bullshit, maybe not. Of course Toyota is going to try to deny it.
Reminds me of there was a train wreck in the rural mountain valley where I lived and the train dumped a shit load of toxic chemicals because the engineer was drunk or sleeping and went too fast. So they had to clean it up and when they has it almost all cleaned up after 2 months of work they accidentally dumped it again. Man, did they feel stupid! So they called the FBI and said that someone sabotaged it. Of course that was bullshit, it was there own damn mistake they made twice. The FBI came down and questioned everyone. I remember they questioned me. funny. There is a Buddhist monastery down the road and the FBI were asking me if I was associated with the 'cult' and if I ever went down to the 'compound'. Of course there were no leads and the whole thing blew over but the train company was very unpopular in that valley ever since.

Maybe Toyota just feels stupid and doesn't want to accept anymore responsibility, OR the guy is full of shit.

This guy might be full of shit, and I believe he is...but the rest of the claims are not. In fact the more I read about it, the more frightening it gets. This shit goes back ten years at least. My mom's car was recalled for the "mat" problem...yeah, ok. But here's the shady part...apparently during this recall they added a break override on the vehicle without telling anyone. Toyota is like the only company or something that didn't have break overrides. So why didn't they tell anyone they were doing this? It would have saved my mom a lot of worry. She had to talk to a bunch of people before getting a straight answer about what exactly they did to her car for this "mat" recall. At first they told her it was just standard, computer functioning stuff. So she kept looking for more information and found out that what they really did was add break override so that people could actually break if there is an electrical problem and the car accelerates out of control. The messed up part is that the company ignores any claims of sudden acceleration when the car was not able to be stopped by using the break, because they say this would not be possible. Contradiction much?