Toyota's floor mat safety issue is rapidly turning into a public spectacle, as the NHTSA yesterday said statements made in a letter to customers about the floor mats were "inaccurate and misleading." The worst part? The NHTSA says the letter was inaccurate and misleading about the existence of [...] 
Toyota says there's no evidence that the automaker's Toyota or Lexus vehicles have an unintended-acceleration issue. But improperly installed or wrong-size floor mats can interfere with the accelerator pedal and cause it to stick, the automaker admits.
Today Toyota started to mail letters to hundreds of thousands of owners [...] After asking owners of certain Toyota models to remove their floor mats in September, Toyota has begun sending out letters to Toyota/Lexus owners with affected VINs. This isn't yet the formal recall campaign; rather, this is an interim letter explaining the how/why of the floor mat situation and advising [...]
