Oopsies!

[Anschauer]

Sad day indeed when the lack of an electronic gizmo is enough to doom an entire run of vehicles from a proud automaker like Toyota.

(and not for one moment do I believe any crap about the gas pedals....)

Breaking News Alert

The New York Times

Tue, April 13, 2010 -- 6:39 PM ET

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Toyota to Temporarily Stop Selling Lexus GX460 After Safety Warning

Toyota says it will temporarily stop selling the Lexus GX460 after Consumer Reports said the SUV carried an unusually high risk of a rollover accident during certain types of turns.

In the latest blow to Toyota's reputation, the Japanese automaker says it will suspend sales of the SUV while it conducts its own testing.

Consumer Reports says that in handling tests, the seven-seat SUV slid until it was nearly sideways before the electronic stability system regained control.

The magazine says this could lead to a rollover accident in real-world driving. It gave the GX460 a rare "Don't Buy:

Safety Risk" label until the problem is fixed.

Toyota has sold about 5,000 GX460s in the three months since it went on sale. It is not covered by Toyota's faulty gas-pedal recalls.

[MAD02]

Safety Risk?! Looks like fun to me!!

[robspeed]

Safety Risk?! Looks like fun to me!!

funny it looks like a bloated waste of space to me! ;-p

[Jim_75Sahara]

Hard for me to worry about an ugly SUV. I was thinking the fad was about over, but I seem to be wrong.