Daihatsu, the Japanese automaker owned by Toyota, has halted production after admitting it falsified data in safety tests for its vehicles for 30 years.

Toyota-owned automaker halts Japan production after admitting it tampered with safety tests for 30 years | CNN Business::Daihatsu, the Japanese automaker owned by Toyota, has halted production after admitting it falsified data in safety tests for its vehicles for 30 years.

  • RickRussell_CAEnglish
    151•1 year ago

    Odd that they put “Toyota-owned automaker” in the headline instead of Daihatsu. Or something like, :“Daihatsu, owned by Toyota”.

    Whether the problems go “up the chain” to the parent company is TBD, I guess.

    • @FrozengyroEnglish
      41•1 year ago

      Apple-owned headphone company, beats, delivers lobotomies to customers.

    • @[email protected]English
      7•1 year ago

      There’s a pretty good reasoning for this in the article:

      “an independent third-party committee had found evidence of tampering with safety tests on as many as 64 vehicle models, including those sold under the Toyota brand.”

      • RickRussell_CAEnglish
        1•1 year ago

        And, presumably other brands that come from Daihatsu plants. Assuming the safety issues are only within Daihatsu facilities, that’s the key information. “Daihatsu, a Toyota subsidiary” or similar conveys the useful information. “Toyota-owned automaker” does not.

        As it stands, it sounds like CNN is trying to vaugely imply that the problem applies to Toyota generally, which obvs will get a lot of clicks from people who own Toyotas. That’s sloppy clickbait.

  • GhostalmediaEnglish
    35•1 year ago

    TIL Daihatsu is still around. They stopped selling cars in my country about 30 years ago.

    • @[email protected]English
      25•1 year ago

      Daihatsu basically sells rebranded Toyota cars with cheaper price, but with smaller engines, lower trim level, etc. They also sells cheap commercial vehicles such as small pickups.

    • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏English
      31•1 year ago

      Indeed, even worse consideeing just last week they recalled a ton of vehicles because of faulty airbags, and a month ago issued another recall for 12V batteries catching fire

      • sj_zero
        19•1 year ago

        There’s always recalls going on, so it’s not indicative of anything when they happen.

        I’ve had 3 newer cars from 3 brands in 3 countries, and all 3 had a recall of some kind. In each case they just bring it in and fix it…

        • @bitwabaEnglish
          16•1 year ago

          I’d much prefer a manufacturer that issues recalls over over one with a perfect track record. No one is perfect. At least one of them is acknowledging and fixing their mistakes.

        • UltraMagnus0001English
          9•1 year ago

          It’s when they don’t do the recalls like Chrysler with their Pacifica minivans. That van has so many problems and the customer ends up paying for the repair. The harness corrosion behind the bumper, The grille shutter, hybrid coolant pump, electric ac expansion valves and I just had one with a crank position sensor code with the hybrid charging system making an awful racket with 9000 miles. Most of the problems I listed are usually under 30k miles. I didn’t even get into their other vehicles. There’s a reason Consumer Reports listed them as one of the most unreliable.

    • @zikEnglish
      9•1 year ago

      Or rather bad press for Daihatsu, who this is actually about.

      The headline is terrible and misleading.

    • RentlarEnglish
      17•1 year ago

      I don’t think it’s collusion as much as not wanting to be the bearer of bad news, which snowballs into a cascade of lies.