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You can always use the transmission as a brake (though if you're a Camry V6 owner, all your gears might not work).

Clearly, every automaker is going to have recalls (and we all know about all the infamous Ford and GM recalls over the years), but the Toyota recalls are beyond the industry normal. The shear number of recalls in such a short amount of time, for such serious safety problems is staggering. Most 2009-2010 Toyota owners have likely been back to the dealer more times for recalls than oil changes.

Toyota clearly has been cutting corners on quality and doing stuff on the cheap over the last several years. It's obvious that the accountants are doing a lot of the engineering, just as was the case with GM in the 80s, and if Toyota doesn't change course, the result will eventually be the same.

The defenders of Toyota can say what they want about GM. I've had my Oldsmobile 9 years, and it has only been recalled once. (And that was such a minor issue, I never even took the time to have it "fixed").