For the fourth time since 2010, Toyota has been fined the maximum penalty for delaying recalls.
On Tuesday, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) announced that it has slapped Toyota with a record $17.35 million (€13.15 million at today's exchange rates) fine for failing to report a safety defect to address floor mat pedal entrapment in the 2010 Lexus RX 350 and RX 450h in a timely manner.
In May this year, NHTSA contacted Toyota regarding a trend in floor mats trapping the gas pedal on said models, but it took the Japanese carmaker a month to tell the safety agency that it was aware of 63 alleged incidents. In June, Toyota went ahead and recalled around 154,000 examples of its RX models to fix the problem.
The fine is the maximum allowed by law and largest single of its kind ever to be imposed against an automaker for a safety defect.
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