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Safety regulators became most demanding of automakers in the months after Toyota's big recalls.
In recent months, big recalls have seemingly become the norm, rather than the exception.
One of Toyota's current big recalls also involves floor mats that could trap the accelerator pedal.
Before Toyota's big recalls, many customers told him they were too busy to bring their vehicle in for recall work.
"Many of us weren't surprised over the big recalls; we were more surprised that it took Toyota so long".
Toyota said sales rose 42 percent last month, when traffic at its dealerships was hurt by two big recalls.
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After the first big recall of Toyota vehicles last fall, Mr. Toyoda said publicly that the company was a step away from "capitulation to irrelevance or death".
See articleGeneral Motors created a new position of head of global vehicle safety, as it issued yet another big recall for various safety checks.
"There's no doubt that Larry... wanted to be associated with doing something that was more transformative and cleansing and big," recalled one participant quoted by Scheiber.
"2010 was essentially an 11-month year for us," he said, referring to a brief period when the company stopped selling many popular models to fix an accelerator pedal problem that was the subject of a big recall.
The first big recall of Toyota vehicles to deal with pedal entrapment happened more than two years after the traffic safety administration first determined that entrapment had caused accidents in Lexus and Camry models.
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