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Toyota Motor is issuing another recall -- this time it involves 740,000 cars and sports-utility vehicles in the U.S. and nearly 600,000 units in Japan to repair a seal on the vehicles' brake master cylinder that may leak fluid and impair braking performance.

Toyota may have repaired most of the cars it recalled for unintended acceleration problems, but it hasn't repaired its stock price, and U.S. shareholders have filed a class-action lawsuit against the automaker for failing to disclose what it knew about the defects.

Toyota says complaints by its cars' unintended acceleration have dropped 80% compared to April, , as the world's largest automaker continues to make strides in repairing the nearly 8 million vehicles recalled in the U.S. to over sticky gas pedals and accelerators that get hung up on floor mats.

Toyota is recalling 412,000 large sedans sold in the U.S. for problems that can cause the steering wheel to lock up. The recall affects 373,000 Avalon sedans and 39,000 Lexus LX 470 SUVs, and is Toyota's largest since recalling 600,000 Sienna minivans over rusting spare tire holders in...

Toyota said Tuesday it was suspending U.S. sales of eight recalled vehicle models to fix accelerator pedals that stick, the latest quality problem to confront the world's No. 1 automaker.

Toyota's (TM) recall of 3.8 million Toyota and Lexus models is the Japanese car maker's largest U.S. recall and ranks among the top 10 of all U.S. vehicle recalls. The recall addresses stuck accelerators caused by jammed floor mats. Since 2004, at least 30 crashes and 20 injuries involving...