Toyota to face claims from owners after US court ruling

[dipsydoodle]

Source: BBC News

Toyota car owners in the US can pursue claims that the carmaker caused the value of their vehicle to fall, a federal judge has ruled.

The owners argue they have suffered economic losses because Toyota didn't disclose or fix defects that made their cars accelerate suddenly.

Toyota had made a motion for the lawsuits to be dismissed but a US judge has allowed the claims to move ahead.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-13420798

[Heywood J]

1. I hope this only applies to people who sold the cars or tried to sell them.

Otherwise, it's a give-away to everyone whose nebulous, otherwise intangible sentiment of what the car was worth went down, even though there was no actual effect to suffer.

[Hubert Flottz]

2. Leave Toyota alone!!1!!11!!1!!

The south can't survive without those nonunion Toyota plants.

[Kolesar]

3. This is ridiculous. It's not like they were buying an appraised "collectable" for investment

Take your lumps, dumbass