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• Toyota faces 2 lawsuits for safety defects (CNN Money)
  Toyota customers, whistleblower take carmaker to court alleging serious safety problems.
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• Toyota to recall 264,000 cars over faulty fuel pipes (AFP via Yahoo! News)
  Japanese car giant Toyota Motor Corp. said Wednesday it was recalling about 264,000 cars in Japan and abroad to repair defective fuel pipes.
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• Pipe fault prompts Toyota recall (BBC News)
  Toyota is recalling 264,000 cars to repair faulty fuel pipes, its second call-back in just over a month.
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• Toyota to recall 215,020 Lexus, other cars in Japan (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
  Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) said on Wednesday it would recall 215,020 units of the Lexus GS, Crown and three other high-end car models in Japan to fix a faulty fuel pipe that could lead to a fuel leakage.
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• Toyota Will Recall 215,020 Cars in Japan to Fix Fuel Pipes (Bloomberg.com)
  Nov. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Toyota Motor Corp., the world's second-biggest automaker, will recall 215,020 cars in Japan to fix faulty fuel pipes.
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• Toyota customers, whistleblower sue carmaker alleging defects (Detroit News)
  STOCKTON, Calif. -- Gurinder Singh's lawyers say he would still have a father if a faulty seatbelt in the family car had unlatched instead of pinning his dad inside the flaming Toyota Corolla where he lost his life.
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• Whistleblower: 'Toyota way' ignored (The Cincinnati Post)
  TOKYO - The California auto worker who is suing Toyota and others in a whistleblower lawsuit said Tuesday she was merely carrying out the quality-conscious "Toyota way" in spotting defects when managers cracked down on her efforts and demoted her.
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• Toyota to recall 264,000 cars over faulty fuel pipes (AFP Business News via Yahoo!7 Finance)
  TOKYO (AFP) - Japanese car giant Toyota Motor Corp.
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• Toyota blames driver for fatal crash (The Record)
  STOCKTON - An attorney for a Woodbridge family in its lawsuit against Toyota Motor Corp. told a jury Tuesday that Raminder Singh burned to death in a crash because a faulty seat belt jammed, trapping him inside.
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• Lodi Family, Whistleblower Sue Toyota (KCRA 3 Sacramento)
  Lawyers for Gurinder Singh say he would still have a father if a faulty seat belt in the family car had only unlatched, instead of pinning his dad inside the flaming Toyota Corolla that took his life.
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