Toyota is desperate to convince a congressional committee that dangerous bouts of uncontrolled acceleration in its cars are the result of mechanical problems, not computer glitches. That's because a ...

Reporting from Washington — Toyota has received nearly 38,000 calls and reports from customers about sudden acceleration problems in its vehicles, many of them flooding in to the automaker after it ...

Reporting from Los Angeles and Washington — Sudden acceleration in Toyota Motor Corp. vehicles is caused by mechanical rather than electronic systems, a federal ...

Toyota Motor Corp. has agreed to pay as much as $1.4 billion to settle U.S. litigation claims that its vehicles suddenly and unintentionally accelerated, according to court filings made public ...

President and COO of Toyota's U.S. sales arm Jim Lentz told the House Energy & Commerce/Oversight Subcommittee Tuesday that the company will share results of a "comprehensive evaluation" of the ...

While more than 395,000 Ford Taurus and Mercury Sables face government scrutiny for sudden acceleration problems, a problem that has stymied automakers and even NASA engineers, an anonymous gear-head ...

More problems may be lurking for Toyota, if comments made by Apple's co-founder about his 2010 Prius are any indication. Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer systems, including laptops, ...