The Transportation Department said Thursday it will investigate brake problems in the 2010 Toyota Prius after the automaker acknowledged a defect and its recent recall of several of its most popular ...

From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Robert Siegel. From the accelerator to the brake, more bad news today for Toyota. The automaker's latest trouble comes from a brake problem on the ...

TOKYO. - Toyota is acknowledging that it has started fixing problems with the brakes in its Prius hybrid, but it hasn't decided about a recall which would add some of the newer Prius models to the ...

(AP) — Toyota Motor Corp. has been hit by over 100 complaints in the U.S. and Japan about brake problems with the popular Prius hybrid, the latest in a spate of quality troubles for the automaker as ...

A Japanese news network is reporting that Toyota is recalling its best-selling Prius hybrid due to concerns about brake problems. Toyota denies any recall for now. This is a totally different issue ...

View post: Volkswagen Eyes a New Type of EV for the U.S. Market We can’t say for sure what is or is not happening on the Prius, but we can offer some possible insight. On hybrids vehicles, the brake ...

Toyota Motor Corp. is recalling 340,000 gas-electric hybrid Prius cars around the world, 212,000 of them in Japan and 94,000 in North America, for a defect in their parking brakes. Toyota said ...

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:45:10 GMT — The Transportation Department opened an investigation Thursday into brake problems in the 2010 Prius, the latest in a series of safety troubles at Toyota that have ...

Toyota Motor Corp., under fire from fresh quality complaints about its popular Prius hybrid, says it conducted a software fix to address reports of slipping brakes. But the world's biggest carmaker ...

Japan's transport ministry said it had received at least 13 complaints about Prius brakes in the two months to January alone. Toyota Motor, reeling from a public-relations fiasco over accelerator ...