During Toyota’s Congressional hearing, Congress members have been attacking Toyota not only for putting over eight million dangerous cars on the road, but also for how the recall was handled. The Toyota investigation puts government officials in an awkward position of punishing one automaker while being part owner of another. The federal government is a 60 percent shareholder in General Motors, one of Toyota’s biggest competitors.

Toyota Motor Corporation has received the highest number of consumer complaints of unintended acceleration filed with NHTSA. The complaints cover model years 2005 to 2010. According to Edmunds.com, while Toyota has received the most complaints for unintended accelerations, the total filed complaints are fewer than most auto makers. Toyota ranked 17th of 20 automakers in the number of complaints filed with NHTSA over the past decade. Toyota had 9.1 percent of the complaints from 2001 through 2010; during this period, the company sold 13.5 percent of all new cars in the United States. The vehicle with the most complaints, was the Toyota Camry, but it was also the best selling model in 2009.

“This is a very small problem here,” Dow Jones columnist Al Lewis told Fox News on America’s Newsroom. “We have had 2,000 complaints in a decade against the back drop of millions and millions of cars sold.” Auto industry expert Lauren Fix tells Fox the problem shouldn’t be minimized. “When you have all the complaints and Toyota has three times more deaths with the unintended acceleration than any other manufacturer combined, we have a problem.”