One problem related to speed control linkage has been reported for the 2008 Toyota Corolla. The most recently reported issues are listed below. Please also check out the statistics and reliability analysis of the 2008 Toyota Corolla based on all problems reported for the 2008 Corolla.
My wife was entering a perpendicular parking spot, she was approximately 10 to 15 feet from a retaining wall when all of a sudden our 2008 Toyota Corolla accelerated. Her foot was on the brake, bringing it slowly into the parking spot, and to a stop. The car all of a sudden accelerated and sounded like some one accelerating the car if it was in park. Our daughter and grandson's were in the car. The car hit the retaining wall causing $2500 damage to the front of the car. The retaining wall was made of railroad ties. A tie was knocked out of place (also rotten) this happened on private property, so authorities were not called. The air bags did not deploy, mainly because the car went up on the wall. Had she not been turning into a parking place, she would have went straight into a crowd of families. The Toyota dealer was contacted, they were not interested in checking it out. Toyota company was contacted, they pulled the data out of the computer, and checked the car out for brakes. Accelerator pedal, and floor mats, five weeks after the accident. We received a letter from Toyota stating the incident was not a result of any type of manufacture design or defect. During the time I was dealing with Toyota I did some internet surfing trying to find information on Toyota's having unintended acceleration (vehicle speed control). While looking in a consumer protection web page, "www-odi. Nhtsa. Got. Gov/complaints/results. Cfm" I found that hundreds of Toyota Corollas have had vehicle speed control problems, like ours. They are all similar, just a little different time during driving, but most happened while coming to a stop, and with different levels of damage. Toyota is no help, it they were, they would be admitting they had a problem. The linkage between the accelerator pedal, and computer on these Toyotas is electronic. It is my feeling the computer is getting a noise spike, or have a timing problem in their computer. Now I have a car that my wife won't drive. Updated ivoq 02/10/11.