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After our cover story last April about unexpected acceleration in its Priuses,

Published 8:00 am Tuesday, March 9, 2010

After our cover story last April about unexpected acceleration in its Priuses, Toyota issued a huge recall and declared the problem a result of faulty floor mats.Just don’t tell that to James Sikes, whose little Wheezlebub made it all the way to 94 MPH with a stuck accelerator before help from a California Highway Patrol officer allowed him to come to a stop. Said Sikes after the harrowing ordeal, “It definitely was not the floor mats.”