Candidly, I am not sure what t make out of Toyota’s sudden acceleration issues. I suppose that I’ll leave that up to the experts and the courts.
I do know that the Sacramento Bee just reported that a California Highway Patrol officer helped slow a runaway Toyota Prius from 94 mph to a safe stop on Monday after the car’s accelerator became stuck on a San Diego County freeway, the CHP said. Prius driver James Sikes said that the incident Monday occurred just two weeks after he had taken the vehicle in to an El Cajon dealership for repairs after receiving a recall notice, but he was turned away. “I gave them my recall notice and they handed it back and said I’m not on the recall list,” Sikes said. In a statement, Toyota said it has dispatched a field technical specialist to San Diego to investigate the incident according to the report.
While all of this is taking place, I am still driving my 96 GMC Yukon and I am not having any sudden acceleration issues. It’s an odd thing really, I wonder if this would have happened to GM what kind of reaction the public would have? My hunch is that they would have closed the plants all together.
