Japan's leading automotive company Toyota Motor (Toyota) will temporarily suspend operations at four plants in Japan, mainly due to fraudulent diesel engine certification tests by its group company Toyota Industries (Toyota Industries).
Jiji News Agency, NHK 30** Road, due to the problem of falsification of Toyota's loom engine certification test, Toyota Motor has decided to temporarily suspend the operation of six production lines at four factories in Japan until February 1. The suspension of work will be carried out at the Yoshiwara, Inabe, and Fujimatsu plants of Toyota's subsidiary Toyota Autobody, as well as the headquarters plant of Toyota Autobody's Gifu Autobody Industry, which has been suspended since the evening of January 29.
Toyota Motor announced on the 29th that it has suspended shipments of three diesel engines commissioned by Toyota Loom for certification tests and data falsification, and Toyota Loom has suspended shipments of 10 models equipped with data fraud engines (six of which are sold in Japan).
Toyota's models equipped with the above-mentioned falsified engines include the "Land Cruiser Prado" (discontinued), "Hiace", "Dyna", "Hilux", "Fortuner", "Innova", "Land Cruiser 300", and "LX500D".
According to Yahoo Finance, as of 9:40 a.m. on the 30th, Toyota Motor was 077% to 2,9605 yen.
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