Now Ford and Chrysler recalls the vehicle due to warning from NHTSA

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After Toyota, now its Ford and Chrysler turn. Ford Motor Co. is recalling 33,700 of its Transit Connect small commercial vans over an interior liner while Chrysler Group said it was recalling certain 2010 SUVs and trucks over a possible brake fluid leak.
Ford is recalling the Transit Connect vehicles sold in the United States and manufactured from December 2008 through May of this year due to an interior liner that fails to meet all safety requirements for head protection.

"In the event of a vehicle crash, an occupant could be at increased risk of injury," the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said on Friday in a letter to Ford.

Now Ford and Chrysler recalls the vehicle due to warning from NHTSA

Toyota give time to Development Dept to over come Quality Woes.

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Toyota Motor Corp. will give its product development engineers an additional month to complete vehicles to address potential quality problems in an effort to prevent more image-damaging recalls.

"The fast growth of the past decade has been too much in some areas for the company to keep up with," Executive Vice President Takeshi Uchiyamada told reporters at Toyota headquarters today.

He added that Toyota's future growth will be determined by its engineering capacity.

Uchiyamada, who is in charge of research and development, said Toyota has allocated 1,000 engineers to deal with quality issues, up 50 percent.

Toyota give time to Development Dept to over come Quality Woes.

Toyota Tumbles in Initial Quality Survey.

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Toyota dropped to 21st this year (out of 33 brands) from sixth in 2009 in the J.D. Power & Associates Initial Quality Study. The automaker also fell below the industry average for the first time in the 24-year history of the survey, a decline attributed to Toyota’s massive recalls over accelerator-pedal problems.

Domestic automakers, also for the first time in the study’s history, have caught up with European and Asian brands.

The study looks at 2010 vehicles during the first 90 days of ownership. Consumers were asked whether they had any of 228 possible problems, which include malfunctions and design issues like the ease-of-use of controls and brakes generating too much dust resulting in dirty wheels.

Toyota Tumbles in Initial Quality Survey.