Toyota's Other Legal Mess

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Muhammed El-Hasan
on June 10, 2010 8:47 AM | | Comments (0) |

The big challenge for Toyota is that it must deal with this hybrid-related lawsuit at the same time it's handling the fallout from the unintended-acceleration recalls.


Toyota's Other Legal Mess

(Forbes) On a scorching summer day during the 1979 oil crisis, Alex Severinsky, a Soviet refugee, sat for 45 minutes in a sweltering Oldsmobile Cutlass, waiting for the chance to buy gasoline in Dallas. "I'm thinking to myself, in Moscow I'd wait in line in temperatures that were minus 20 to 30 degrees Centigrade for food. Here I'm doing the same thing, not for food but for gasoline!"

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