Toyota’s reputation could be tarnished for years
Toyota is about to capitulation to the meaninglessness and death.
Not my words but those of the Toyota President Akio Toyoda.
He said he remembers, in response to the continuing more than eight million cars worldwide, but in a speech at the National Press Club of Japan on October 2, 2009.
At that time, had sent a conditional unlimited, long before the latest of a variety of quality and safety call Toyota sliding doors.
The decrease was for us all. It was the sale of the business and earnings reports, we found the months of steady decline in writing.
They sell more cars from General Motors (GM) and therefore the largest automaker in the world, had never been officially designed for the Japanese car was.
But volume growth was in 2002 when the overall market share of the company was just over 10%, Toyota President Fujio Cho, a plan to reach 15% shortly after 2010.
A year ago, when obstacle to the bankruptcy of GM, Toyota rose to the top slot inevitable. In 2008, Toyota sold 8.9 million, while GM sold 8.3 million vehicles.
But this was a red, Toyota had only the first time issued a profit warning for the year as a whole. Then in the spring of 2009, a 436.9bn yen (4.4 billion U.S. U.S. dollars reported in the period 2.9 billion) loss from operations for the year to March.
The company is in crisis.
In June, Mr. Toyoda joined at the top of the major automobile manufacturers, four months after the former President of Toyota, Katsuaki Watanabe, was removed in a humiliating ceremony before some 400 executives from Toyota.
Akio Toyoda, was critical: the company’s executives said that his grandfather had met Toyoda Toyoda trench is well founded.
Toyota has been great and far from its customers, said in his speech in the fall, culminating company executives to undisciplined attempt to apply and their arrogance, born as an insult to succeed.
Within weeks of salary, Mr. Toyoda was informed by an accident that was killed in a traffic police and three of his relatives. The accelerator is still in the carpet of the new Lexus brand was captured as a possible cause.
Four precious lives lost, Toyoda, said at the time. Offering my sincere condolences. The recall of 3.8 million, followed by Toyota, the semi-permanent installation FLOORMATE – or rip-mat side rails package in the driver’s seat.
The pedal real problem that led to the recent retreat, which is somewhat more complicated, and the review is proving far more expensive.