The Transportation Department said Thursday it will investigate brake problems in the 2010 Toyota Prius after the automaker acknowledged a defect and its recent recall of several of its most popular ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Transportation Department opened an investigation Thursday into brake problems in the 2010 Prius, the latest in a series of safety troubles at Toyota that have confused drivers ...

TOKYO. - Toyota is acknowledging that it has started fixing problems with the brakes in its Prius hybrid, but it hasn't decided about a recall which would add some of the newer Prius models to the ...

From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Robert Siegel. From the accelerator to the brake, more bad news today for Toyota. The automaker's latest trouble comes from a brake problem on the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Transportation Department opened an investigation Thursday into brake problems in the 2010 Prius, the latest in a series of safety troubles at Toyota that have confused drivers ...

Toyota Motor Corp. is recalling 340,000 gas-electric hybrid Prius cars around the world, 212,000 of them in Japan and 94,000 in North America, for a defect in their parking brakes. Toyota said ...

WASHINGTON -- Americans should park their recalled Toyotas unless driving to dealers for accelerator repairs, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood warned Wednesday -- then quickly took it back -- as ...

A Japanese news network is reporting that Toyota is recalling its best-selling Prius hybrid due to concerns about brake problems. Toyota denies any recall for now. This is a totally different issue ...

Toyota Motor Corp., under fire from fresh quality complaints about its popular Prius hybrid, says it conducted a software fix to address reports of slipping brakes. But the world's biggest carmaker ...

WASHINGTON -- Americans should park their recalled Toyotas unless driving to dealers for accelerator repairs, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood warned yesterday -- then quickly took it back -- as ...