{"id":381487,"date":"2010-03-02T12:03:59","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T17:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10002751"},"modified":"2010-03-02T12:05:06","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T17:05:06","slug":"data-shows-toyota-might-be-crashiest-cars-on-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/381487","title":{"rendered":"Data Shows Toyota Might Be Crashiest Cars On The Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/03\/camrygland-thumb-240x180-37649.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p>Toyota <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/03\/american-overreation-to-recall-is-toyota-winning-sympathy-points-at-home.html\" >might be getting a pity party at home in Japan<\/a> for the skewering the car company is receiving over their recall of 8 million vehicles, so this latest report will probably turn them into saints. A new look at almost 13,000 speed-related complaints over the last decade shows that Toyota led the pack in with the most complaints involving a crash.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report in the NY Times, Toyotas accounted for around 1,000 crash-related complaints, more than double Ford&#8217;s total of 450. There are two other sets of numbers that make this information even more intriguing. First, Ford had a higher total number of complaints, but significantly fewer resulting from crashes. Second, Ford had almost 10 million more cars on the road than Toyota during this period.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, both Toyota and Ford pale in comparison to the 41 million GM vehicles out there at the same time. But they only had 1 speed-control crash complaint per every 179,821 vehicles sold, while Toyota has 1 per 20,454.<\/p>\n<p>Also of note in the Times&#8217; findings &#8212; There were more crash-related complaints about Toyota&#8217;s 2002 Camry than there were about the 2007 Camry. And yet the latter model year was recalled while the 2002 was not.<\/p>\n<p>In response, a Toyota rep said that all the NHTSA complaints had been looked into previously and, &#8220;At the conclusion of these investigations, no specific evidence of a trend regarding safety issues was found.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Do you think Toyota is hiding something? Or are those un-recalled cars merely a statistical anomaly?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/02\/business\/02toyota.html?em\" >Data Shows Camrys Not Recalled Also Had Problems <\/a> [NY Times]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toyota might be getting a pity party at home in Japan for the skewering the car company is receiving over their recall of 8 million vehicles, so this latest report will probably turn them into saints. A new look at almost 13,000 speed-related complaints over the last decade shows that Toyota led the pack in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5519,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-381487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381487","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\/5519"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}