THAILAND (Reuters) – Toyota Motor Corp has halted sales of the Yaris Ativ, according to a senior official, after its subsidiary Daihatsu faked part of the door in side-collision safety testing.
Toyota’s CEO for the Asia area, Masahiko Maeda, indicated at a news conference in Bangkok that the problem may have happened due to pressure during the development of the Ativ model, but that the vehicles consumers were driving were safe.
“Of course, if development had occurred under appropriate conditions, this type of problem would not have occurred,” Maeda remarked.
“I think the fact that it happened at all indicates that there was some kind of pressure at the development site,” he said, adding that the vehicle’s very enormous size may have offered a barrier to the development.
Toyota and Daihatsu said last month that they were looking into how a portion of the door in side-collision safety tests for around 88,000 small vehicles, the majority of which were Ativs, had been modified for the purpose of side-on crash safety testing.
Thailand is Toyota’s fourth-largest worldwide production location by volume, behind Japan, the United States, and China. Last year, it manufactured 659,000 automobiles in the nation, including models from its premium brand Lexus.
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