New Lawsuit States That Toyota Forced Owners To Keep Quiet

Posted on 10.29.2010 15:30
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Bryan Usrey
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Toyota | sedan | luxury cars | news | safety | Cars | Car News It?s amazing, as even though the Toyota unintended acceleration issue was some time ago, some stories keep popping up at least once a month. This time, there are accusations against the Japanese automaker that they forced people to keep quiet about the issue. Part of this deal was that Toyota would buy-back these problematic vehicles, but in order to get them to do that, owners had to sign a confidentially statement that stated they couldn?t talk to anyone about it.The suit also points to Toyota documents that stated engineers and technicians were able to recreate the issue. This entire thing aside, the suit is basically saying that Toyota knew about the issue, but failed to act for years.Toyota has stated that all owners who sold their vehicles back were asked to sign a liability waiver and there was no confidentiality statement in this waiver. Frankly, while they might have failed to act, this story seems a bit to mafia-like for a car company. New Lawsuit States That Toyota Forced Owners To Keep Quiet originally appeared on topspeed.com on Friday, 29 October 2010 15:30 EST. read more

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