I really wonder what happened with Toyota that it would go from having some of the most maintenance free, high trade in value cars, to having so many recalls and so many problems.  I’d love to know if the recalled vehicles are from particular plants.   Is there any correlation to the problems Toyota was having with training workers detailed in this post: Toyota Reveals Limits of Great Southern Jobs Scam

TOKYO — Toyota on Tuesday announced another global recall — this time, more than 400,000 Prius and other hybrid cars with braking problems, as a quality crisis continues to curse the carmaker that built its global reputation on quality.

Toyota President Akio Toyoda used extraordinary language at a press conference here to apologize for quality and safety issues that have led to the recall of more than 7 million vehicles in recent months.

He repeated three times that Toyota was neither failure-proof nor “omnipotent,” and he said that his company would now “redouble our commitment to quality as the lifeline of our company.”

The recall will fix a software glitch in the brakes of the Prius and three other hybrid models. It has caused brief and sometimes frightening delays in perceived braking capacity on icy or bumpy roads.

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