Tokyo, 30 Jan (Xinhua) -- Akio Toyoda, chairman (chairman) of Toyota Motor Corporation, apologized to the public on 30 January in Nagoya City, Japan, for the recent data fraud scandals of the Toyota Group.
Akio Toyoda said at a vision briefing held by the Toyota Group on the same day: "Toyota Industries Co., Ltd. and Daihatsu Industries, which are subsidiaries of the group, have successively committed fraud, cheated in certification tests, and delivered a large number of products to the market that should not have been the best. ”
Following the discovery of data fraud in the forklift engine exhaust test in March last year, Toyota Industries was exposed on the 29th that three automobile engines also had data fraud. These engines are installed in 10 models including Toyota's Land Cruiser, and Toyota announced that it would suspend shipments of these models on the same day.
According to the "Nihon Keizai Shimbun"**, affected by the latest counterfeiting scandal of Toyota Automobiles, some production lines of Toyota Motor and Hino Motors' domestic factories in Japan have been suspended on the 29th.
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