Re: Randy Berger My Answer to You About Nance

Posted by Owen_Dyneto On 2010/2/7 8:03:59

Surely the problem is with the company who made the accelerator pedals, they weren't made (I imagine) by Toyota?.

John, from what I've read the pedals mechanism on the Japan-produced vehicles were made by Denso in Japan, and for the US assembled cars by CTS in Illinois. But it's also been stated that both pedal assemblies while slightly different, are manufactured to a design specification set by Toyota. So if the manufacturer met the specification, I'd guess the responsibility would fall largely back on the firm that designed the pedal mechanism (Toyota).

In any case, logic won't prevail, the lawyers and courts will.

EDIT: Correction, CTS is in Elkhart,Ind., not Illinois.