Can you see the tarnish on that badge?
Worries over brake and fuel pump defects have caused Toyota to issue a recall for 1.5 million cars globally. This takes its total number of vehicles recalled during the past year to more than 10 million and its tally of separate recall for 2010 to 14.
The latest recall will affect 740,000 cars in the US, 600,000 in Japan and 17,000 in the UK and covers some Toyota Highlander and Avalon models and various Lexuses. UK models affected are some IS, GS and RX models built between 2003 and 2005.
Toyota has revealed that fluid may be leaking from some cars' brake master cylinders. This could cause a spongy brake pedal and a gradual decline in braking performance - although Toyota says that even when the brake warning light is triggered, the car still has 200 miles to go before braking performance begins to deteriorate.
To be fair to Toyota, you can't fault the lengths it's prepared to go to in order to show that it's doing everything it can to make sure its cars are safe - but5 a 1.5 million car recall has got to be the last thing ToMoCo's bruised public image needed...