Lexus Resumes GX 460 Sales

After 15 days off the market, you can buy a Lexus GX 460 again.

Toyota suspended sales of the SUV after Consumer Reports branded it a "safety risk" for an electronic stability program that intervened too late in emergency maneuvers. Toyota replicated the problem, and came up with a software fix

Story from Reuters via Automotive News (free registration required).

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Report: Lexus GX 460 Recall Imminent

Here's how stacked the deck is against Toyota. When it does respond, and respond quickly, the Feds leak it so they can say it first.

A "NHTSA official...who declined to be identified" says Toyota is about to issue a recall for the Lexus GX 460 after replicating the same stability issues that caused Consumer Reports to brand it a "safety risk" last week.

Full story from Automotive News.

UPDATE: Toyota, having no choice, has made it official. Details here.

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The Consumer Reports Kiss Of Death

The Lexus GX 460 is only the twelfth "don't buy" warning Consumer Reports has ever issued. What were the others? Well, let's just say it's not company you want to keep. From Automobile.

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