Soichiro Okuhira, president of Daihatsu Kogyo Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Toyota, held a press conference in Tokyo on the afternoon of December 20, admitting that there were violations in the safety test of new cars, and at the same time announcing the suspension of shipments of all models sold at home and abroad, and Toyota also stopped the shipment of some models.
At the press conference, the report of a third-party committee investigating Daihatsu's quality violations was released. According to the report, the third-party committee found that Daihatsu had 174 false records in the documents, and the target models included not only its own brand of cars, but also cars that were produced by Mazda and Subaru in the form of OEM. Including vehicles of other companies such as Toyota, there were 64 models with violations.
The Dafa fraud scandal was caused by an internal report by an employee. After receiving the report, Japan's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism conducted an on-site investigation of Daihatsu's headquarters in May. It took nearly 8 months from the first announcement of the breach to the announcement of the results of the investigation. The survey revealed that in addition to safety aspects such as durability, environmental data such as exhaust gas were also falsified.
Daihatsu is a wholly owned subsidiary of Toyota, which mainly manufactures light vehicles (displacement under 660cc) in Japan, and plays an important role in Toyota's Asian business. In FY 2022, Daihatsu produced more than 1.7 million units worldwide, about half of which were produced in Japan. Daihatsu, a wholly-owned subsidiary, has been exposed to large-scale counterfeiting and has suspended all model shipments, which will not only affect Toyota's global sales, but also have a significant impact on Toyota's brand.
**:Beijing**client Reporter: Li Yuchuan
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