It’s not immediately clear what the impact might be on local Toyota dealers after the world’s No. 1 automaker announced Tuesday, Jan. 26, that it was instructing dealers to temporarily suspend U.S. sales of eight models to fix sticky accelerator pedals.

“We’re on a wait-and-see (status)... just waiting to hear from Toyota,” said Darrell Smith, team leader for new car sales at Joseph Airport Toyota in Vandalia.

Managers at Walker Toyota in Miami Twp. and Voss Toyota in Beavercreek declined comment, saying they hadn’t heard Toyota’s 5:45 p.m. announcement.

As part of the plan, Toyota is halting production at five facilities for the week of Feb. 1 “to assess and coordinate activities.”

“This action is necessary until a remedy is finalized,” Bob Carter, Toyota’s group vice president and GM, told the Associated Press.

Aaron Bragman, an auto analyst for the consulting firm IHS Global Insight in Troy, Mich., said Toyota typically sells about 65,000 Camrys and Corollas per month, and the suspension of sales could strike the company’s bottom line and reputation for quality.

“That’s huge if they can’t sell these and they don’t have a fix identified. They need to go and get a solution to this fast,” Bragman said.

Toyota sold more than 34,000 Camrys in December, making the midsize sedan America’s best-selling car, with 3.4 percent of the market. Sales rose 38 percent from a year earlier. Sales of the Corolla and Matrix, a small sedan and a hatchback, totaled 34,220 last month, with 3.3 percent of the market and sales up nearly 55 percent from December 2008.

It was unclear how long Toyota would suspend production of the vehicles. Toyota said the company would stop producing vehicles at plants in Indiana, Kentucky, Texas and Canada and that no other North American Toyota facility would be affected.