{"id":240995,"date":"2010-01-28T07:23:39","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T12:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.team-bhp.com\/forum\/indian-car-scene\/74414-sales-shutdown-rocks-toyota.html"},"modified":"2010-01-28T07:23:39","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T12:23:39","slug":"sales-shutdown-rocks-toyota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/240995","title":{"rendered":"Sales shutdown rocks Toyota"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>DETROIT: Toyota Motor Corp shut down sales of its best-selling vehicles on Wednesday under pressure from the Obama administration to address aproduct safety crisis that threatens its image in its largest market. <\/p>\n<p>  Shares of Toyota fell another 2 percent in Tokyo trading as concern deepened about the knock-on effects from a recall to fix millions of vehicles. <\/p>\n<p>  Toyota said late on Wednesday that it had determined that it would have to fix another 1.1 million vehicles to address the risk that floor mats could trap accelerator pedals and cause bursts of sudden acceleration. <\/p>\n<p>  Separately, Toyota said it believed it had found a mechanical fix for a problem that has forced it to recall 2.3 million vehicles for sticky accelerators. <\/p>\n<p>  Taken together, Toyota now has recalled nearly 6 million vehicles for problems with the accelerators used across its lineup, a sweeping safety action that has tarnished its reputation for quality and emboldened its rivals. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/news-by-industry\/auto\/automobiles\/Sales-shutdown-rocks-Toyota-recall-broadens\/articleshow\/5507825.cms\" >Sales shutdown rocks Toyota, recall broadens- Automobiles-Auto-News By Industry-News-The Economic Times<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DETROIT: Toyota Motor Corp shut down sales of its best-selling vehicles on Wednesday under pressure from the Obama administration to address aproduct safety crisis that threatens its image in its largest market. Shares of Toyota fell another 2 percent in Tokyo trading as concern deepened about the knock-on effects from a recall to fix millions [&hellip;]<\/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-240995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240995","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=240995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}