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 Toyota said in an email it was not aware of any crashes, injuries
or deaths resulting from the defects. Some 1.05 million vehicles
will be recalled in Japan and 615,000 overseas, covering Toyota
models Crown Majesta, Crown, Noah, Voxy, Corolla Rumion and Auris,
as well as more than a dozen Lexus models.
Car makers have faced heightened global scrutiny on how quickly they
share information with regulators and the public since a massive
recall crisis in 2009 battered Toyota's reputation and sales. Most
vehicle recalls are issued on a voluntary rather than mandatory
basis.
Toyota recalled 6.39 million vehicles globally in April in its
second-largest recall announcement ever. Two months later, the
company issued a recall of almost 2.3 million vehicles globally for
faulty airbag inflators that have also plagued other car makers.
In the latest recall, about 802,000 Crown Majesta, Crown, Noah and
Voxy models manufactured between June 2007 and June 2012 will be
called back to replace a rubber seal ring in the brake master
cylinder to prevent brake fluid from leaking. If brake fluid has
already leaked, the brake booster will be replaced.
A second recall of about 759,000 vehicles globally, including
423,000 in the United States, will fix faulty fuel delivery pipes
that could, in the worst-case scenario, cause a fire through a fuel
leak. Some of these vehicles are also subject to the first recall.
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Toyota will also recall in Japan 190,000 front-wheel drive Corolla
Rumion and Auris models built between October 2006 and October 2014
that are not equipped with an idling feature to fix a defective fuel
evaporative emission control unit.
Shares in Toyota closed 0.2 percent higher in Tokyo at 5,990 yen
after the recalls were announced, while the exchange's Topix index
<.TOPX> gained 0.8 percent.
(Reporting by Maki Shiraki; Writing by Chang-Ran Kim; Editing by
Chris Gallagher and Kenneth Maxwell)
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