Another massive recall for Toyota was announced this week just as the company reclaimed its place as the No. 1 automaker in the world. On Wednesday, Toyota issued a global recall for about 1.29 million vehicles for faulty airbags and windshield wipers problems. The recall includes 907,000 Corolla and Corolla Matrix cars manufactured between December 2001 and May 2004, and 385,000 Lexus IS cars manufactured from May 2005 to October 2011.
The automaker says airbags in the recalled Corollas can improperly inflate if electronic signals damage a chip in the part that operates the airbags. So far 47 incidents of this problem have been reported. The Lexus IS cars are being recalled because heavy snow can stop the windshield wipers from working. Toyota has received 25 reports of faulty windshield wipers.
The recall includes 752,000 Corolla and Corolla Matrix cars in the U.S., 141,000 in Canada and thousands in Japan and Mexico. For the Lexus IS, 270,000 vehicles in the U.S. are recalled along with about 17,000 in Canada and thousands in Europe, the Middle East and China.
Over the past several years Toyota has been forced to recall millions of vehicles for a wide range of problems, one of the more serious being sticky gas pedals that could cause sudden, unintended acceleration.
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