Toyota denies cover-up on Prius brakes

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroyuki Yokoyama, managing officer for quality and customer service of Toyota Motor Corp., speaks about brake problems involving the company's best-selling Prius during a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 4, 2010. Yokoyama said, ''We were trying to investigate the cause so we were not covering up the claims.''

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