Toyota re-visited

[GinoX]

Toyota lo bai haja PALO e anja fiscal aki. Pesei mi ta bisa, si merka ta den recession pisa hasta teranan lew ta sinti'e...

http://www.autoblog.com/2008/12/19/toyota-poised-for-first-annual-loss-in-71-years/

[Grumpy]

TOyota atleast ta preparando y por cune. E floho gordo nan di merca so no, cu nan mester 4 Billion dollar pa sigui djodjo den nan private planes, mercedes benz y nan paleisnan.

[Zero]

4 Billion ta pa Chrysler so!!! Ta cuanto GM a pidi/haya??

[BOOSTED]

esei nan a bisa den e hearing cu twt tin cu nan mester di $$ pero full e sala presente a jega den private planes. i cos ta hodido WTF

[flatout]

esei nan a bisa den e hearing cu twt tin cu nan mester di $$ pero full e sala presente a jega den private planes. i cos ta hodido WTF

Sin conta e sponser nan di blockbuster movies cada rato...yeah...bumblebee wasn't a coincidence

[Pmr racing]

nan ta sigi presta placa pa biba na grandi y hasi dushi den private plane

[GinoX]

Akio ta the big boss nobo awo. Y ja kaba ela target e motor GR kaba (V6 di e IS300 nobo) pa un posibel "Supra" nobo. Ja ja ja mi sa mi sa (no, mi no ta hariendo).




TOKYO — Toyota announced a new senior management team here on Tuesday, with Akio Toyoda, grandson of the company's founder, named as new president and CEO. The 52-year-old executive will assume his new duties this summer. On the same day as Barack Obama's inauguration in the U.S., Toyota clearly also wants to embark on far-reaching "change."

[color="Red"]Akio Toyoda is an auto executive with a difference, a passionate car fan who has raced in Germany's Nurburgring 24 Hours and been one of the driving forces behind the Lexus LF-A super coupe and IS-F sports sedan.[/color]

Currently executive vice president, Akio Toyoda will succeed Katsuaki Watanabe, 66, who has been Toyota chief since 2005.

After recent record-breaking years of sales and profits, the tide has turned for Toyota, which now says it wants to go back to the solid "customer first" ways of the founding Toyoda family. This will please some Toyota watchers who believe the company has simply expanded too far, too fast in recent years.

The son of Shoichiro Toyoda, Toyota president between 1982-92, and grandson of founder Kiichiro Toyoda, Akio Toyoda has long been groomed for the presidency. Having studied and worked in the U.S., the younger Toyoda speaks fluent English and is known as a friendly, approachable exec with a ready sense of humor.

Inside Line says: Akio Toyoda's time has finally come because Toyota believes bold reform and new ideas and products are urgently needed to combat the current market downturn, one that saw Toyota's 2008 global sales slip an uncharacteristic 4 percent to 8.97 million units, and to plan for the future.

[GinoX]

cOnjo, djies pa un pedal cu no kier hende bis'e algo....

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100127/ap_on_bi_ge/us_toyota_recall

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/nation/stories/012710dnbustoyota.3ff3729.html

[GinoX]

Di otro banda.......

[GinoX]

http://www.usatoday.com/money/autos/2010-02-16-toyotadealers16_ST_N.htm

[GinoX]

Toyota president says recall-hit firm 'grew too fast'

Akio Toyoda, Toyota president
Toyota president Akio Toyoda will face a grilling on Wednesday

The boss of Toyota has admitted that the firm's rapid expansion may have led to safety issues which saw the recall of 8.5 million vehicles worldwide. In a personal statement to be delivered to US congress on Wednesday, Toyota president Akio Toyoda said the firm's growth "may have been too quick".

He also apologised for taking too long to deal with safety issues.

James Lentz, US head of Toyota, has begun his appearance before the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Mr Lentz said that on one issue, "we failed to promptly analyse and respond" to information provided. He is facing questions from a US congressional committee later over the recall and Toyota's handling of it.

'Poor communications'

In recent months, Toyota has been hit by three main safety problems - faulty accelerator pedals, accelerator pedals getting stuck in floor mats, and a problem with braking systems on its hybrid models.


We acknowledge these mistakes, we apologise for them and we have learned from them
James Lentz, Toyota USA president

The majority of the recalls have taken place in the US. Mr Lentz is the first Toyota executive to be grilled in a series of congressional hearings. In a prepared statement, he said: "It has taken us too long to come to grips with a rare but serious set of safety issues, despite all of our good faith efforts.
"The problem has also been compounded by poor communications both within our company and with regulators and consumers."

He went on: "In the case of sticking accelerator pedals, we failed to promptly analyse and respond to information emerging from Europe and in the United States.


TOYOTA RECALLS: STORY SO FAR
- Oct 2009 - 3.8 million vehicles are recalled in the US following floor mat problems. More recalls follow in the next few months, over various safety concerns, totalling 8.5 million worldwide by Feb 2010
- 5 Feb - Toyota president Akio Toyoda apologises for the recalls and pledges to target quality control. However, he is criticised for not bowing deeply enough
- 9 Feb - Mr Toyoda publicly apologises again and this time is seen to get the bow right
- 18 Feb - Mr Toyoda announces that he will face questioning in Congress, having previously said that he would not, after being formally asked to do so
- 23 Feb - the congressional hearings begin, with Toyota's head of US operations, James Lentz, first to be grilled.
Q&A: Toyota recalls

"We acknowledge these mistakes, we apologise for them and we have learned from them."

'Serious flaws'

Committee chairman Henry Waxman wrote to Mr Lentz on Monday and raised three concerns following a preliminary review of the documents provided by Toyota:

• Toyota "consistently dismissed" the possibility that electronic failures could be responsible for acceleration problems

• The report that Toyota commissioned to look at potential electronic problems appeared to have "serious flaws" and the company was too slow in initiating it

• Toyota's public statements about the adequacy of its recent recalls appeared to be "misleading".

Mr Waxman also wrote to Ray LaHood, Secretary of the Department of Transportation, who will also be questioned. In the letter, he criticised the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration for "lacking expertise" and said its response to complaints about sudden unintended acceleration appeared to have been "seriously deficient". In Mr LaHood's prepared testimony, he said regulators would continue to investigate "all possible causes" of unintended acceleration.

Robust sales

Toyota said on Tuesday that its global sales were 15% higher in January - when many of the recalls had already been announced - than they were a year ago.

James Lentz, president of Toyota Motor Sales USA
Mr Lentz said he was confident Toyota could win back customer trust

Domestic sales jumped 45%, while overseas sales rose nearly 9%.

On Monday, Toyota said it had received subpoenas asking it to produce documents relating to the safety problems and the company's disclosure policies.

The subpoenas were served earlier this month by a federal grand jury in New York and by the US financial watchdog, the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Toyota can expect support from one quarter. More than a hundred dealers from around the US are travelling to Washington.

One firm told the BBC: "Our owner went to Washington to show support for [Mr] Toyoda and hopefully get the word back out there that we are fixing cars, we are selling cars."

Media focus

Toyota president Akio Toyoda had initially said that he wished to stay in Japan and planned to send Yoshi Inaba, chief of Toyota's North America operations, to face Congress.

But last week he signalled a change of heart and said he would testify, after the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee formally called for him to do so. Mr Toyoda, the grandson of the company's founder, will face tough questioning from the committee. He has been criticised for being too slow to react to the safety issues and for the company offering unclear explanations. His performance will be closely watched. It is not yet known whether he will speak in English or Japanese.

He was criticised by the Japanese media earlier this month for not bowing deeply enough at a news conference arranged for him to say sorry for the recalls, leading to questions about the sincerity of his apology.

[GinoX]

E di tres banda di e medaya

http://www.businessweek.com/lifestyle/content/feb2010/bw20100225_403524.htm

[J-Tuning]

Cu mass production semper bo lo tin issues. Ora cu Toyota a subi y bira e automaker mas grandi na mundo, hopi cos a bin cu esey. Principalmente e preshon di perform y keda number 1.

Cu esaki bo lo mester entrega algo y jammer cu e la cuminsa cu e accel. pedal di Prius y otro modelonan. Hende nan a perde nan bida pa motibo di esaki tambe.

Locual cu ta piss me off ta cu brand supporters den pasado a cana fomenta cu no ta e pedal sin ta e floor mat ta haci cu e ta pega (articulonan scirbi over di esaki tambe), mientras cu nan tabata sa cu tin algo defect.

Tur cos ta boil down riba production # pa sera e aña #1 y keda #1.

Otro marca cu a caba di recall 1.3 million cars... Chevy. Mas moderno auto bira, human made defected software with bugs, mas un death trap nan ta bira.

[GinoX]

Locual cu ta piss me off ta cu brand supporters den pasado a cana fomenta cu no ta e pedal sin ta e floor mat ta haci cu e ta pega (articulonan scirbi over di esaki tambe), mientras cu nan tabata sa cu tin algo defect.

Tur cos ta boil down riba production # pa sera e aña #1 y keda #1.

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Mas kk bo pone riba auto, mas kk cu por bai malo/danja....

Si nos lesa tur e "ko"nan aki bon, tin hopi industrianan chikito merikano cu ta traha parts p'e compania(nan) extranhero. Autonan fabrika/assembla na merka mester tin contenido di piesanan manufactura ei mes na merka segun nan leinan/convenionan.

Pa Toyota esei kemen laga un cierto percentahe di controle den mang di merikanonan. Consecuensha ta.... ja, tur e bada bada nanki. Pero ja, bo wak bon Toyota no tin TUR e falta, pero [SIZE="4"]ultimadamente[/size] ta Toyota ta responsable como fabrikante mundial di auto.

That said, ta probable cu ta net e piesa ei (traha pa un fabrikante merikano) ta loke ta faulty.

[GinoX]

Mas kk bo pone riba auto, mas kk cu por bai malo/danja....


That said, ta probable cu ta net e piesa ei (traha pa un fabrikante merikano) ta loke ta faulty.

http://www.popularmechanics.com/automotive/how_to/4347704.html