Toyota Motor Corporation

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Belfast Telegraph, 12.03.10 10:35 UTC

Toyota safety warnings ignored

Toyota bosses were warned about the safety implications of their aggressive cost-cutting as long ago as 2006, according to evidence submitted to the US Congress yesterday. A letter sent to former ...

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 12.03.10 05:37 UTC

$o $orry: The Apologetic CEO is all the rage

Everywhere you look, there's a CEO apologizing for something. Toyota boss Akio Toyoda is apologizing about the big, fat problem with his mysteriously accelerating cars. Morgan Stanley's John Mack ...

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WashingtonPost Business, 12.03.10 04:07 UTC

NHTSA chief says rate of Toyota complaints was 'unremarkable'

Federal regulators have faced torrents of criticism for not moving more aggressively against Toyota during years of complaints regarding runaway cars. But the chief of the National Highway Traffic ...

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WashingtonPost Business, 12.03.10 04:07 UTC

Director says NHTSA responded properly on Toyota's problems

The chief of the nation's auto safety regulators rejected criticism on Thursday that his agency made mistakes and responded too slowly to years of complaints regarding runaway Toyotas. David L. ...

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BusinessWeek, 12.03.10 03:44 UTC

The Humbling of Toyota

A combination of high-speed global growth and ambitious cost cuts led to the quality lapses that have tarnished the once-mighty brand. How it all went wrong

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Seattle Times, 12.03.10 01:53 UTC

Canada launches probe into Toyota safety concerns

Canadian politicians on Thursday accused the nation's transportation agency of failing to take swift action after receiving acceleration-related complaints in Toyota vehicles three years before the company began a series of safety recalls.

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Seattle Times, 12.03.10 00:42 UTC

Toyota 'mystified' by runaway Prius case in Calif.

A Toyota executive said Thursday the company is "mystified" by a report that a California man's Prius gas pedal became stuck and caused the car to speed out of control on a California freeway.

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Seattle Times, 11.03.10 23:53 UTC

Federal auto agency's role in monitoring safety

A congressional hearing Thursday looked at the role the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration played in Toyota's massive safety recalls.

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Times Online Business, 11.03.10 23:07 UTC

Toyota staff memo on 'safety sacrifices' handed to US investigators

Toyota was forced yesterday to hand over to US congressional investigators a smoking gun memo produced by its own factory workers that warned management as far back as 2006 of systemic threats to car ...

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Los Angeles Times, 11.03.10 21:34 UTC

Government may seek more authority on vehicle safety

WASHINGTON -- Government vehicle safety regulators may seek greater authority to investigate defects in cars and trucks following Toyota's recall of more than 8 million vehicles for safety problems. ...

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Toyota Motor Corporation is a multinational corporation headquartered in Japan, and the world's largest automaker. Toyota employs approximately 316,000 people worldwide. In 1934, while still a department of Toyota Industries, it created its first product, the Type A engine, and, in 1936, its first passenger car, the Toyota AA. The company was eventually founded by Kiichiro Toyoda in 1937 as a s...

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