[net-gold] TRANSPORTATION: AUTOMOBILE AND MOTOR VEHICLE: SAFETY : BUSINESS: CORPORATIONS: TOYOTO: This Time, Swift Action From Toyota
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- Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 08:13:26 -0400 (EDT)
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TRANSPORTATION: AUTOMOBILE AND MOTOR VEHICLE: SAFETY :
BUSINESS: CORPORATIONS: TOYOTO:
This Time, Swift Action From Toyota
This Time, Swift Action From Toyota
By MICHELINE MAYNARD
Published: April 14, 2010
New York Times
<http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/15/business/15toyota.html>
DETROIT The chief engineer in Japan for the Lexus GX 460 sport utility
vehicle was roused from bed early Tuesday by a telephone call from Toyota
engineers in the United States.
The company had gotten advance notice from Consumer Reports magazine that
it would warn buyers not to buy the vehicle. The magazine, which has a
dedicated following in the United States, said its safety tests had
determined that the GX 460 had a dangerous handling problem that caused
its rear end to swerve and created a risk of rollover.
After absorbing the predawn news, a Lexus spokesman said, the Japanese
engineer immediately promised to get busy on the problem. Later Tuesday,
Toyota announced it was temporarily halting sales in the United States of
the $52,000 vehicle, demonstrating that it had learned lessons about
dawdling during a safety crisis and also reflecting the influence that
Consumer Reports exerts.
While Toyotas step might have seemed an overreaction under other
circumstances, it had no choice in the current climate, car analysts said
Wednesday. Safety problems and Toyota seem to be lumped together in the
zeitgeist right now, said James Bell, an executive market analyst at
Kelley Blue Book, which tracks vehicle trends.
On Thursday, Toyota took additional measures, saying that it was testing
the safety of all of its sports-utility models and putting on hold the
launch of the Lexus GX 460 in China, as well as suspending sales of the
car in markets outside the United States.
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