Toyota is recalling nearly 31,000 UK-registered cars because of a computer problem that could cause the vehicle to stop. The recall affects the latest version of its hybrid Prius model and involves 30,970 of the UK-registered ones manufactured between March 2009 and February 2014.
This is the 3rd recall for this version of Toyota’s best-selling hybrid car, coming weeks after the company halted the sale of some US models of its cars over a fire risk from seat heaters. Toyota remains the world’s biggest-selling carmaker, despite repeated blows to its reputation from a string of damaging recalls that have broken industry records. In 2009-2010 the Japanese company was plunged into crisis, when it had to fix 10m cars because of braking problems, which the company later admitted were caused by over-hasty expansion.