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Toyota President Asked to Testify Before House Committee

toyota recallWith so much uncertainty surrounding the recent recalls by Toyota Motor Company (TM), the House committee that is investigating the recalls has asked the company's President to come and testify before it.

Over the past several weeks there have been more reported deaths resulting from sudden acceleration in Toyota vehicles, and the House committee's chairman announced his desire to have Toyota's president, Akio Toyoda, to come in for testimony.

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Toyota Shareholders Encounter the Black Swan

All swans were thought to be white until someone happened to come across a black one. All Toyota's were thought to be well made until someone discovered, oh, say, maybe two million cars that might not be -- part of a cautionary vehicle recall.

If you are a shareholder of Toyota Motor Corp. (TM) which past GM as the largest automobile manufacturer last year -- oddly, the same year it reported its first losses (along with everyone else) -- then you now have a first hand experience of the inherent problems or uselessness in trying to predict where trouble may arise.

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Have Toyota's Troubles Sent Customers to GM and Ford?

Toyota (TM) is now in the driver's seat of its largest vehicle recall in its U.S. history, and with it a solid reputation is being tarnished with a few industrial-size blowtorches. Although Toyota's U.S. head has actually apologized for the accelerator issues so many Toyota models are experiencing, halting sales of new cars is crimping Toyota's sales every minute of every day. So much, in fact, that the Japanese automaker may be ceding sales to the improbable: U.S. competitors General Motors and Ford(F).

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