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After being harsh on Toyota for the past two days, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood changed his tone late yesterday afternoon, praising Toyota’s previous record.<\/p>\n
LaHood posted a statement on a government blog saying “it’s also important to remember that, fundamentally, Toyota has a strong safety record and is a good corporate citizen.” \u00a0He said that\u00a0Toyota was “doing the right thing.”<\/p>\n
Earlier this week, LaHood made comments such as “we’re not finished with Toyota” confirming that the U.S. was considering imposing fines of up to $16.4 million for how Toyota handled its recall situation.<\/p>\n
<\/span><\/p>\n At a House hearing on Wednesday, LaHood said that his advice to anyone that owns\u00a0a recalled Toyota vehicle should “stop driving it and take it to a Toyota dealer.”<\/p>\n The comment send owners running to dealers and Toyota’s stock price tumbling. LaHood later cleared up his comment<\/a> saying that he meant\u00a0only owners of vehicles who were experiencing problems should immediately visit a dealer.<\/p>\n – By: Omar Rana<\/em><\/p>\n Source: Detroit News<\/a><\/p>\n After being harsh on Toyota for the past two days, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood changed his tone late yesterday afternoon, praising Toyota’s previous record. LaHood posted a statement on a government blog saying “it’s also important to remember that, fundamentally, Toyota has a strong safety record and is a good corporate citizen.” \u00a0He said that\u00a0Toyota […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279185","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=279185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/img><\/a>
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