{"id":115147,"date":"2009-12-30T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/12\/30\/detroit-free-press-toyota-lead-all-automakers-with-most\/"},"modified":"2009-12-30T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-30T16:30:00","slug":"detroit-free-press-toyota-led-all-automakers-with-most-recalled-vehicles-in-2009-updated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/115147","title":{"rendered":"Detroit Free Press<\/i>: Toyota led all automakers with most recalled vehicles in 2009 *UPDATED<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Filed under: Government\/Legal<\/a>, Recalls<\/a>, Safety<\/a>, Chrysler<\/a>, Ford<\/a>, GM<\/a><\/p>\n

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2009 has seen a bumper crop of automobile recalls. The Detroit<\/em> Free Press<\/em> reports that there were 15.2 million units recalled this year – nearly double the 8.6 million vehicles that were called back in all of 2008. And the leader of the recall pack was Toyota<\/a>, with a knee-wobbling 4.87 million cars and trucks recalled due mostly to the Japanese automaker’s unintended acceleration issue<\/a>. Toyota had nine major recalls in all in 2009, with the other big issue coming courtesy of rusting Tundra frames<\/a>. Toyota took the top spot in recalls for the first time ever this year, which tells you as much about how bad 2009 was for Aichi, Japan-based automaker as it does about its history of making high-quality automobiles.<\/p>\n

This year’s second biggest offender? Ford Motor Company<\/a>. The Blue Oval recalled 4.52 million vehicles to land in second place in the recall rankings, due mainly to the company’s ongoing issue with cruise control modules. Without the years-old cruise control issue, Ford would have had posted best year ever. General Motors<\/a> rounded out the top three, with 2.24 million recalls announced in 2009, thought it is worth noting that the Detroit, MI-based automaker’s 17 total recalls was the most of any automaker. Chrysler<\/a> actually had a good 2009 – at least when it comes to recalls – with just under 600,000 vehicles affected. Head over to the Detroit Free Press<\/em> for the complete ranking of 2009 recalls by automaker. <\/p>\n

*UPDATE<\/strong>:<\/em> In related global news, Toyota is recalling 43,000 Chinese-market vehicles including its Highlander and Previa models, along with Lexus’ ES350 and RX350. The culprit? Engine oil leaks<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[Sources: Detroit Free Press<\/a>; Zachs Investment Research (via Yahoo<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Detroit Free Press<\/i>: Toyota led all automakers with most recalled vehicles in 2009 *UPDATED<\/i><\/a> originally appeared on Autoblog<\/a> on Wed, 30 Dec 2009 11:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Filed under: Government\/Legal, Recalls, Safety, Chrysler, Ford, GM 2009 has seen a bumper crop of automobile recalls. The Detroit Free Press reports that there were 15.2 million units recalled this year – nearly double the 8.6 million vehicles that were called back in all of 2008. And the leader of the recall pack was Toyota, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}