再转一份报告

By John Hughes
Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Toyota Motor Corp.’s Corolla, the
world’s best-selling car, is being reviewed by the U.S. after
driver complaints about steering, according to a government
spokeswoman.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has
recorded more than 80 complaints about Corolla steering for 2009
and 2010 models, according to the agency’s online database.
“We are reviewing steering complaints with the Corolla,”
Karen Aldana, a spokeswoman for the agency, said in an e-mail.
NHTSA wants “to determine if a safety defect investigation is
warranted, as is standard procedure with all complaints.”
The inquiry, which was reported earlier by Automotive News,
may add to troubles for Toyota, which is recalling 437,000
hybrid cars globally on top of the almost 8 million vehicles the
company is repairing for separate defects.
“We have not received any official communication regarding
an evaluation of Corolla,” Ed Lewis, a Toyota spokesman in
Washington, said in an e-mail. “We will cooperate, of course,
with any inquiry the agency has.”
Consumers have complained that they have had difficulty
keeping the Corolla going straight on highways, according to the
NHTSA database.
“The first time my wife drove it on the highway her arms
were tired after 25 miles trying to keep it straight,”
according to one of the complaints, which said the failure
occurred Sept. 20 on a 2010 Corolla.
A 2010 Corolla “drives all over the road,” one owner told
NHTSA after an incident last month. “It feels like I’m driving
on black ice, constantly, trying to compensate for the
oversteer.”