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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

DETROIT — The 911 call came at 6:35 p.m. Aug. 28 from a car that was speeding out of control on Highway 125 near San Diego. The caller, a male voice, was panic-stricken: “We’re in a Lexus . . . we’re ...