{"id":281449,"date":"2010-02-05T09:17:35","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T14:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/?p=50361"},"modified":"2010-02-05T09:17:35","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T14:17:35","slug":"u-s-officials-say-toyota-may-be-fined-over-offering-recall-in-timely-manner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/281449","title":{"rendered":"U.S. officials say Toyota may be fined over offering recall in timely manner"},"content":{"rendered":"

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To make matters worse for Toyota, the company faces a multimillion-dollar fine from the federal government for failing to issue a recall in a timely manner. As a matter of law, automakers that fail to issue recalls for defective vehicles in a timely manner are subject to fines of up to $16.4 million.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have not received any official communication from NHTSA so we are unable to comment at this time,\u201d Toyota spokeswoman Cindy Knight said with regard to the potential fine.<\/p>\n

In a statement on Wednesday, Ray LaHood said that the Transportation Department will continue to review possible defects and monitor recalls, and that it took a massive effort on the part of the government to get Toyota to cooperate thus far.<\/p>\n

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The the $16.4 million fine remains available to the DOT, the biggest one assessed to date is a $1 million fine to GM involving 581,344. Though it has never been imposed, the agency also reserves the ability to fine dealers up to $6,000 per vehicle that they sell despite knowledge that it is defective.<\/p>\n

– By: Stephen Calogera<\/em><\/p>\n

Source: Automotive News<\/a> (Subscription Required)<\/p>\n

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To make matters worse for Toyota, the company faces a multimillion-dollar fine from the federal government for failing to issue a recall in a timely manner. As a matter of law, automakers that fail to issue recalls for defective vehicles in a timely manner are subject to fines of up to $16.4 million. \u201cWe have […]<\/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-281449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281449","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=281449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}