{"id":569682,"date":"2010-05-19T01:41:42","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T05:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sevensidedcube.net\/?p=11220"},"modified":"2010-05-19T01:41:42","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T05:41:42","slug":"toyota-recalls-lexus-vehicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/569682","title":{"rendered":"Toyota Recalls Lexus Vehicles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sevensidedcube.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/lexus_ls460l.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11219\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sevensidedcube.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/lexus_ls460l-300x189.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Toyota Motor Corporation<\/strong> is to recall Lexus vehicles due to problems on the computerized steering system. <strong>Toyota<\/strong>, the Japanese auto giant, had received about 12 reports of electrical problems causing the steering system to malfunction for a few seconds, as reported by Japanese daily <strong>Yomiuri Shimbun<\/strong> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Meiko Iwasaki<\/strong>, spokeswoman of the carmaker, said that <strong>Toyota<\/strong> is to recall about 11,500 <strong>Lexus<\/strong> cars: 4,500 <strong>Lexus Cars<\/strong> in Japan and 7,000 vehicles overseas, including 3,800 cars in the <strong>United States<\/strong>. The recall covers four models &#8211; <strong>LS460<\/strong>, <strong>LS460L<\/strong> and hybrids <strong>LS600h<\/strong> and <strong>LS600hL<\/strong> \u2013 which are affected with the defect. Toyota, the world\u2019s largest carmaker, had recalled about 10 million vehicles worldwide since last year. It had also agreed last month to pay a record US fine for hiding accelerator pedal defects that caused more than 50 deaths in the United States. Iwasaki stated that customers in Japan have complained about wheels not returning to original positions fast enough after making turns. The problem is both mechanical and software-related, she added.<\/p>\n<p>Toyota shares have declined 1.4 percent in Tokyo and were trading 1 percent lower at 3,496 yen, whereas the Nikkei Stock Average was down 1.6 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Related posts:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.sevensidedcube.net\/general\/2010\/toyota-sequoia-suv-recall\/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Toyota Sequoia SUV recall'>Toyota Sequoia SUV recall<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.sevensidedcube.net\/general\/2010\/gm-recalls-1-3-million-cars\/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: GM Recalls 1.3 Million Cars'>GM Recalls 1.3 Million Cars<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.sevensidedcube.net\/business\/2010\/toyota-car-recall-model-and-years\/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Toyota Car Recall Model and Years'>Toyota Car Recall Model and Years<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/sevensidedcube\/OXLF\/~4\/-CirdimkxLo\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toyota Motor Corporation is to recall Lexus vehicles due to problems on the computerized steering system. Toyota, the Japanese auto giant, had received about 12 reports of electrical problems causing the steering system to malfunction for a few seconds, as reported by Japanese daily Yomiuri Shimbun on Wednesday. Meiko Iwasaki, spokeswoman of the carmaker, said [&hellip;]<\/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-569682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569682","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=569682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}