Toyota will recall another 1.1m car

Toyota has announced the recall of an additional 1.1 million cars in the US over concerns about accelerator pedals getting stuck on floor mats. The firm also said the recall would be extended to Europe, but exactly where and which models had yet to be decided. The new recall comes just a day after the carmaker said it was suspending sales of eight popular US models. Toyota also announced that 750 jobs would be going at its Burnaston plant in the UK before the end of August. "[Last year] was a tough year for Toyota Manufacturing UK," the carmaker said. "This decision is related to production capacity and efficiency, not to production volumes." Toyota said no decision had been taken about how the jobs would go, but added that it was not currently considering compulsory redundancies. The plant employs about 3 ,800 people. Investor concerns The specifics of the recall in Europe have yet to be decided. Colin Hensley, general manager of Toyota's European operations, said the carmaker was trying to establish how many European models shared the parts used in the cars recalled in the US. Last week, the world's largest carmaker recalled 2.3 million cars in the US with faulty pedals. It has now recalled almost 8 million cars in the US in the past four months. Last October, it recalled 4.2 million cars because of worries over pedals getting lodged under floor mats. "Toyota's remedy plan is to modify or replace the accelerator pedals on the subject vehicles to address the risk of floor mat entrapment," the company said. The latest recall affects five models in the US: the 2008-2010 Highlander and the 2009- 2010 Corolla, Venza, Matrix and Pontiac Vibe. Toyota shares fell a further 3.9 % in Japan, after dropping 4.3 % on Wednesday, as concerns about the impact of the recalls on the carmaker's financial health and reputation gripped investors. "It is still uncertain how this recall problem will affect Toyota's profits.