superchan7

I don't think the govt. owes any money back. The fines were for delayed reporting of incidents and problems, which DID exist as far as pedals/mats were concerned.

Toyota never admitted any electronic problems, and the govt. finally agrees. Sure, an apology would be nice, but Toyota should just move on and give consumers some GOOD PRODUCT.

dsnowgs4

+1

Exactly. The fear mongering from the press pushed the Gov and public to act. During the whole thing I would tell people that the statistical chances of these supposed problems happening were less than you winning the lotto..

Toyota should not sue the govt, but if they were smart they should market and leverage off these new findings. I mean they could put a commercial out there saying that NASA testing could not find any problems.

Either way as many people were saying on here it was an unwarranted set of events.

mmarshall

Not likely, with superb products out there now like the Chevy Malibu, Buick LaCrosse/Regal, Chevy Cruze, the new Dodge Charger, Chrysler 300, and Jeep Grand Cherokee. The days of GM building cheap garbage have been over now for a few years, and the days of Chrysler doing so are just now coming to an end.....though these new Chrysler products, of course, are going to have to prove their worth in better reliability. Only time, of course, will tell that.

True, but, it looks like something positive came from that money.

I guess it depends on which news you watched. The Jim Leherer PBS News Hour (one of my favorites) did a long story on it a couple of nights ago that didn't just fluff it off as nothing. In fact, they had transportation Secretary Ray LaHood on camera for a roughly 10-15 minute interview, where he hinmself discussed the case and its findings.