As you may know, Toyota Motor Corporation President, Akio Toyoda, was invited to testify before US Congress today. Mr Toyoda prepared the following statement for the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in America.
By now, many of you will have seen some of the extensive media coverage the media have given our recent accelerator pedal and Prius brakes recalls. We’ve also had some very positive and supportive comments on the blog, for which we’re very grateful. It’s great to hear from some of you that, although you are [...]
Below is a short statement from Akio Toyoda, who is responding to an invitation to testify before the U.S. House Committee on Oversight & Government Reform:
Toyota (GB) is aware of customer complaints from owners of Corolla models in the USA regarding the power-steering on that car. We want to be absolutely clear with our UK customers that the ‘Corolla Sedan’ (the 4-door Saloon) in question is not a model which is, or has been, sold in the UK. The ‘Corolla’ model [...]
Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) announced details of a number of quality-related matters at a press conference in Tokyo today.
KEY POINTS:
- Chief quality officers to be appointed worldwide
- New Special Committee for Global Quality
- Stronger framework for receiving and monitoring customer feedback
- Rigorous and independent testing of electronic throttle fail-safe system
- Brake-override system to be introduced [...]
We are now seeing customers affected by the accelerator pedal recall at Toyota Service Centres around the UK.
To ensure we could begin work on customer cars at the earliest possible opportunity we have fast tracked the production and delivery of the part required to complete the precautionary upgrade, maximised the capacity of our Toyota Service Centres by extending opening [...]
