Scandal centres on falsified safety tests
Toyota chairman Akio Toyoda and customer first chief officer Shinji Miyamoto , during a press conference in Tokyo, after Japan's transport ministry said it found authentication fraud in processes conducted on pedestrian protection tests in three current models and tampering with test vehicles in crash tests in four past models at Toyota.
“Customers can rest assured their cars are safe to drive, but there are rules we must follow,” Toyota chairman Akio Toyoda told reporters on Monday. “We should not have sidestepped these important processes.”Hubristic Woodford was the orchestrator of his own downfallToyota’s three models account for less than 2 per cent of the 11 million vehicles Toyota produced last year.
Authorities entered Toyota’s headquarters in Nagoya on Tuesday morning at 9:30 local time, according to the transport ministry. Officials said they would also conduct on-site inspections of Mazda, Yamaha and Suzuki. Moro attributed the data issues to employee misinterpretations of unclear procedure manuals, not an “organisational cover-up” or “malicious falsification.”
In December, an internal probe of Daihatsu showed most of its vehicles had not been properly tested for collision safety. Toyota also suspended all engine shipments in January after an investigation revealed it had falsified power-output figures.
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