J.P. Jones
New member
Here are some facts fro consideration:
- Joan Claybrook, former NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) administrator in the Clinton administration this month stated that "Toyota bamboozled NHTSA or NHTSA was bamboozled by itself."
- Toyota was alone among automakers in having former NHTSA employees on its payroll.
- Nicole Nason, the George W. Bush appointee who headed NHTSA in the previous decade, is on record as saying that 'Team Bush' had tried in vain for years to get Toyota to acknowledge the firm's problems with 'sudden unintended acceleration' and later malfunctioning brakes."
- At a Tokyo news conference earlier this month, Shinichi Sasaki, Toyota's vice-president for quality control, admitted several quality-control weaknesses he has diagnosed, including lack of thorough testing of new vehicles and failure to gather and act upon consumer complaints, notably from the U.S...."quality control had developed systemic failings."
- Toyota Pres. Akio Toyoda acknowledged recently, in an open letter, that the firm's rapid growth resulted in a decline in quality control and poor response to customer complaints.
- Toyota received the first complaints about 'unintended sudden acceleration" in 2003.
- In 2004 State Farm Insurance notified the NHTSA about 'unusually high Toyota-owner claims."
- Between 2000 and 2009, Toyota received at least 2,600 complaints about sudden acceleration, according to the Congressional committee currently investigating Toyota.
- Joan Claybrook, former NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) administrator in the Clinton administration this month stated that "Toyota bamboozled NHTSA or NHTSA was bamboozled by itself."
- Toyota was alone among automakers in having former NHTSA employees on its payroll.
- Nicole Nason, the George W. Bush appointee who headed NHTSA in the previous decade, is on record as saying that 'Team Bush' had tried in vain for years to get Toyota to acknowledge the firm's problems with 'sudden unintended acceleration' and later malfunctioning brakes."
- At a Tokyo news conference earlier this month, Shinichi Sasaki, Toyota's vice-president for quality control, admitted several quality-control weaknesses he has diagnosed, including lack of thorough testing of new vehicles and failure to gather and act upon consumer complaints, notably from the U.S...."quality control had developed systemic failings."
- Toyota Pres. Akio Toyoda acknowledged recently, in an open letter, that the firm's rapid growth resulted in a decline in quality control and poor response to customer complaints.
- Toyota received the first complaints about 'unintended sudden acceleration" in 2003.
- In 2004 State Farm Insurance notified the NHTSA about 'unusually high Toyota-owner claims."
- Between 2000 and 2009, Toyota received at least 2,600 complaints about sudden acceleration, according to the Congressional committee currently investigating Toyota.