NHTSA Investigates Toyota Corolla Steering
By Michelle Krebs February 18, 2010The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is launching a formal investigation into 
consumer complaints regarding steering on 2009-2010 Toyota Corolla models, an investigation that may lead to a recall of the bestseller.
The agency said it had received 150 complaints. Toyota Executive Vice President Shinichi Sasaki told reporters in Japan this week that NHTSA had received more than 80 online complaints. NHTSA's inquiry will cover 500,000 vehicles.
The Washington Post cited one complaint on a 2010 Corolla read: "When driving on the highway (60+ mph), the vehicle will all of a sudden start to wander back and forth in the lane, for a few hundred yards. Then as quickly as it started, it stops. The wandering has almost created four collisions so far."
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I gotta say, I'm shocked this hasn't been frontpage news lately. We're talking about Toyota's bread'n'butter here.
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