Toyota has become the world's top car company, but its subsidiaries have been caught in a storm of fraud. Recently, Daihatsu Automobile, a subsidiary of Toyota, was recently reported by internal employees for falsifying automotive safety test data. Toyota also issued a statement on Wednesday to investigate Daihatsu Motors, and there is indeed a problem of falsification of safety crash test data for most vehicles, including collision tests, durability and environmental data such as exhaust emissions.
According to the third-party committee, there were about 174 violations for 64 models and three engines, including 22 Toyota models and one engine. Among them, Toyota has 8 models on sale in Japan and 7 models on sale in overseas markets. What's more, third-party investigators said that Daihatsu's counterfeiting can be traced back to 1989 at the earliest, and has gradually become rampant since 2014.
As a wholly-owned subsidiary of Toyota, Daihatsu Motor broke out in a large-scale counterfeiting incident and suspended shipments, and the most injured in this incident must be Toyota. This is another Toyota subsidiary that has been exposed to a fraud scandal since Hino Motors admitted to falsifying emissions data last year.
The so-called "son is not the fault of the father", this incident will inevitably affect the global sales of the Toyota Group, and the reputation will also be greatly impacted. There is also a fraud scandal of another Japanese car company that has been exposed. In 2000, an automobile manufacturer called "Takata" in Japan was exposed to an airbag problem, which would seriously endanger the lives of drivers and passengers, but Takata did not think so, and more than 100 people died due to the problem.
Because the incident has affected the world, the U.S. judiciary launched an investigation into Takata Group, which also admitted the problems and recalled more than 30 million problematic vehicles. But Takata destroyed all the data that had quality problems and falsified a more secure record.
However, after all, the paper could not contain the fire, and the U.S. Highway Safety Administration found out and imposed a huge fine on Takata Motors, and the 85-year-old Takata Motors was also declared bankrupt because of this incident.
Takada, Hino, Daihatsu....Japanese car companies seem to have repeatedly failed to change their ways in terms of counterfeiting. The outbreak of this incident will hit Japan hard*** Of course, this is also the punishment that Toyota and Japan *** deserve!