Toyota Recalls Continue – What Does This Mean For Florida Drivers?

Toyota Motor Corp. halted the sales of the Lexus GX 460, not long after Consumer Reports announced that the SUV had an unusually high risk of rollovers during turns.

“We are taking the situation with the GX 460 very seriously and are determined to identify and correct the issue Consumer Reports identified,” Toyota said in a statement.

Consumer Reports stated that when the SUV was “pushed to its limits on a handling course on CR’s test track, the rear of the GX CR purchased slid out until the vehicle was almost sideways before the electronic stability control system was able to regain control.”

A week after suspending the sale of the GX 460, Toyota decided to recall 13,000 of these vehicles.  Toyota engineers had replicated the handling flaw that Consumer Reports found, by conducting tests on all Toyota and Lexus-brand SUVs.  The flaw was only discovered in the GX 460 and Land Cruiser Prado models.  The Land Cruisers were only recalled in countries with left-hand drive.

Lexus group vice president, Mark Templin, said that Lexus and the dealers have acted promptly to resolve the situation.

This Lexus recall follows a previous one made by the company, involving millions of Toyota vehicles.  These design defects have left many people wondering what their chances are of being injured in a Florida car accident caused by a Toyota vehicle.

If you have a GX 460, you should contact a local Florida dealership for more information.  You can also visit the website, http://www.toyotarecall.org/dealers/florida/, to look up a dealership in your area that can assist you.