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Toyota to recall Prius this week

Toyota, Japan based world's largest car manufacturer will call-back around 300,000 Prius hybrid vehicles as reported by major news papers.The news came as another blow to the image of Toyota as just a week back the company recalled around 8 million of its car models due to complains about an accelerator related problem. Toyota Prius model was showcased in Delhi Auto Show with Toyota's upcoming cars like Toyota Etios last month and it was recently introduced in the US market and the car becomes very popular because it uses eco-friendly technology in which it uses a combination of battery-powered electric motor with a petrol combustion engine. According to news reports Prius model will be recalled to repair a software programme due to which anti-lock braking system become faulty. Due to this problem around 2,70,000 vehicles will be recalled in Japan and US only.

Published On Feb 08, 2010 12:30 PM By Ritesh

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Toyota, Japan based world's largest car manufacturer will call-back around 300,000 Prius hybrid vehicles as reported by major news papers.The news came as another blow to the image of Toyota as just a week back the company recalled around 8 million of its car models due to complains about an accelerator related problem.

Toyota Prius model was showcased in Delhi Auto Show with Toyota's upcoming cars like Toyota Etios last month and it was recently introduced in the US market and the car becomes very popular because it uses eco-friendly technology in which it uses a combination of battery-powered electric motor with a petrol combustion engine. According to news reports Prius model will be recalled to repair a software programme due to which anti-lock braking system become faulty. Due to this problem around 2,70,000 vehicles will be recalled in Japan and US only.

Yomiuri Shimbun, a Japanese news paper reported that, The company has notified its dealers in Japan that it would recall all the (new model Prius) vehicles sold in the country. Reporting further about the issue Yomiuri Shimbun added that, announcement regarding the recall of Prius model is expected to come in a week and the company has notified its dealers in Japan that it would recall all the (new model Prius) vehicles sold in the country,

According to news reports Japan's ministry of transport received around 80 complaints about fault in braking system in the company's vehicle and at the same time the company itself received about 100 complaints regarding the same problem. Akio Toyoda, Toyota's president, said on Friday that he was deeply sorry for the series of quality related issues and said he would head a new task force to raise standards and investigate the cause of the problems.

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Ritesh

Having worked as an Auto Journalist for the past 5 years, Ritesh is keenly passionate about digging more on automobiles and things related. His journey as a journalist so far consists of different profiles that helped him groom on various platforms within the automobiles industry. He kept rolling on technical experience during his career as a Road Test Editor, which finally took him to a level where he turned to be an Editor-in-Chief of CarDekho.com, India's no. #1 automotive giant.

Another side of his creative life is easily visible the photography that he carries out in order to serve the CarDekho news readers with the latest and natural pictures of newly launched cars. Additionally, he is the one who foresees all auto news articles that are to be published making it sure that CarDekho readers get the latest and the best automotive news first. "Life is a highway, keep driving", Says Ritesh.