It’s kind of an unprecedented move.  When testing the 2010 Lexus GX 460, a luxury SUV made by Toyota, Consumer Reports issued a strongly-worded article calling the product a safety risk because of a high risk of rollover during certain turns.   The last time Consumer Reports said that a car was unsafe was way back in 2001, with the Mitsubishi Montero, so Toyota has suspended sales of the SUV in the United States while its engineers resume safety testing on the vehicle in an attempt to determine if rollover risk is evident.  This is the second suspended sales period of 2010 for the world’s largest car company.

While the luxury SUV isn’t a huge market for Toyota, the vehicle is based on the popular 4Runner body style, so if there’s a risk for one, it might cross over into the other vehicle’s engineering.   Hopefully, for Toyota’s sake, this is just an abundance of caution after its callous ignoring of problems on other cars that may have proved fatal and very costly.  You’d hate to think that there are 5,400 Lexus-brand deathtraps on the road, just waiting to overturn at the turn of a corner.

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