Camry To Become Focal Point Of Upcoming Toyota Lawsuits

Stop the Witch Hunt!!!! Toyota has never done anything wrong in their entire existance.

Amazing! Some provate citizens (and their benevolent lawyers) will do what CSIs, government enquiries, multiple inquisitions, and even NASA couldn't do: Prove that a Toyota defect exists, and that it actually *DID* cause vehicles to unintentionally accelerate.

Good, people need to see what kind of shady people are really running Toyota.

Why did they secretly buy back many cars (no independent testing were done on these)from owners who were having these problems.There is no smoke without fire.

the lawsuit described in the article is one brought by people who didn't even "suffer from unintended acceleration". It's by people who suffered "economic loss" in that their cars lost value due to the recall. What a joke. Suing because your car loses its value. Can I sue when my previous generation ipod is replaced? Can I sue because I bought HD dvds or a Betamax VCR? Can I sue because I bought a Sega Saturn? How about because I bought a GM Saturn and now it's worth nothing because GM closed them?

Every car loses value (duh), but Toyotas (and Hondas) sell based on their history and claims of reliability and impeccable resale value. Considering the projected resale value of Toyota products is one of their biggest selling points, yeah, I can see this case making sense. The plaintiffs probably won't win, but I can kinda see their point.

To restate what mggray said: Let's blame Toyota for what some people think about them.

Does it make sense to you for Toyota to sue the people and organizations who *believe* that Toyota vehicles accelerate uncontrollably due to a defect (even though this has never been proven to be true), and through this misguided and uninformed notion, have caused Toyota resale value a new unit sales to decline?

This is a junk lawsuit by money grubbers. We as a nation need to realize that this type of frivolous lawsuit produces nothing and is garnering us a bad reputation for global business. If the American market is so problematic for foreign companies then they are going to stop investing here and take their money elsewhere. Consumer protection is needed but not stupidity.

Fecal point ? oh, nevermind.

Toyota should regret that they moved their manufacturing plants from Japan to the States, that they picked the wrong US suppliers, that they lost their reputation by using the cheap US parts, and finally that they sold their vehicles to the wrong people.

The money spent on the law suits is good enough to cover the extra costs if they kept their manufacturing in Japan.

Questions: Why Toyota did not sue the US supplier who provided the faulty gas pedal?? Why no one blamed that US supplier?

It was mostly due to the negligence of people (owners) placing floormats over floormats, then on top of that, they had the wrong floormats. This wasn't Toyota's fault, it was either dealers' faults or consumers' faults. These sue happy people are out for a quick buck, sad and shameful. I hope their cases get thrown out. Tough titty said the kitty.

The real kicker here: have the resale values of their cars dropped partially because of stupid lawsuits?

LOL +1
The delicious irony

I don't have knowledge about that lawsuit, but I do know someone had experience with defect part or severe service mistake which might cost people's life. So there must be something wrong with the company. There might be more issues have been covered before they appear on radar.

THIS from an AUDI fan! You do realize that Audi suffered from a similar witchhunt right?

Yeah, like Ford and their tire controversy? There's numerous problems that go 'under the radar' don't even think for a second that Toyota is the bad guy.