Vehicle owners in California and throughout the United States are well aware of the models included in the recent series of Toyota car recalls. An LA Times article reports that over 600,000 Toyota vehicles have been repaired and returned to their owners, including a daily rate of over 50,000 accelerator pedals fixes. It has been reported that alleged problems such as accelerator pedals sticking and steering wheel malfunction have affected a growing number of Toyota and Lexus vehicle occupants and owners. In fact, worldwide, 10 million Toyota and Lexus vehicles were recalled to be examined and reprogrammed by Toyota-trained mechanics.

While consumers faced temporarily losing their transportation at Toyota’s expense, the demand for rental vehicles has greatly increased. This has created a separate dilemma for car rental companies who could not distribute Toyota and Lexus models that were listed in the recall. In fact, popular franchise Enterprise Rent-A-Car tallied a record amount of internet reservations for all of its 5,000 neighborhood locations.

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