A vehicle built for family road trips and school runs suddenly landed in the spotlight for the wrong reason. A massive recall now affects roughly 550,000 Toyota Highlander SUVs, and the issue sits right under the passengers’ backs. That comfortable second-row seat, the one often packed with kids, friends, and road-trip snacks, may not lock into place the way it should.
Toyota issued the recall after discovering a flaw in the seat mechanism that could increase the risk of injury during a crash. The problem sounds small at first glance, yet it carries serious safety implications and affects hundreds of thousands of popular SUVs on the road.
