By Larry Hartstein
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Feb. 18–Toyota is facing more legal trouble, this time over the Prius’ headlights.
A class-action suit filed in Manhattan Federal Court claims 2006-09 Prius hybrids have defective High-Intensity Discharge headlights that shut off at “random intervals,” according to Courthouse News Service.
Toyota “admitted it had received numerous complaints about HID System failures but attempted to blame the HID System failures on normal bulb outages,” the suit claims. “Toyota’s pattern and practice of withholding information about defects or failing to properly analyze and fix major safety defects has now become highly public.