Toyota car recall 2011, on NHTSA request, Toyota recalls 2.17 million cars

Toyota recalls 2.17 million more cars vehicles on request of NHTSA, which led a probe into the Toyota cars defects after Toyota’s infamous 2010 January recall.  

Toyota again announces a massive recall of its cars on Thursday. It is for the third time the Japanese carmaker comes up with car recalls in last three years. This time Toyota will recall around 2.17 million cars, the company said.

The 2011 Toyota recall is promoted by the U.S. Department of Transportation, which led a probe into the Toyota’s quality standards in production after its infamous 2010 January recalls. A team of investigators from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and NASA probed the defects with Toyota cars.

After the investigation, the NHTSA and NASA team ruled out the argument that Toyota cars are facing troubles from some electronics problems. However, they urged Toyota to recall some more cars after going through thousands of pages on Toyota’s fixes for the 2010 January unintended acceleration defects, NHTSA administrator David Strickland revealed.

“While our actions up to now have led to a substantial reduction in reports of acceleration concerns, we . . . agreed that Toyota would take these additional steps to help ensure that acceleration concerns are further reduced,” Toyota spokesman said after announcing its plan to add 2.17 million cars into its recalling list.

2011 Toyota recall will cover 600,000 4Runner SUVs of 2003 to 2009 models, 761,000 RAV4 compact SUVs of 2006 to 2010 models and 17,000 Lexus LX 570s of 2008 and 2011 models, Toyota officials revealed.