Toyota announces 100 million recall of every car it has ever manufactured

From The Metro:

Car giant Toyota has said it will once again recall every single vehicle it has ever manufactured in its 75 year history over faults with steering wheels, brakes, and water pumps.

The Japanese car-maker said there were no reported injuries or accidents due to the issues. The recall, which includes a million British cars, affects every single model, from the 1935 A1 car and G1 light truck right up to the petrol-electric hybrid Prius, Corolla and Derbyshire-built Avensis models.

Globally four hundred and fifty three models are affected, Toyota said yesterday. The recalls follow millions of complaints worldwide Europe about faulty steering, faulty brakes and three hundred thousand reported cases of water-pump problems, specific to the Prius hybrids.

It comes just a month after the firm recalled every single vehicle worldwide over faulty window switches that could cause fires. Toyota, once lauded for its safety standards, has been forced into damage control mode after recalling every single car or van still on the road on several occasions in the past seven decades.

In 2009, it recalled all its cars after a child sitting in the front seat burned her finger with the cigarette lighter and another child slammed the door on his own foot.