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.
Daihatsu already has the reputation of cheap and nasty vehicles. If they mentioned Daihatsu in the Title, it wouldn’t be news. By burying the lede and referring to them as “Toyota Owned”, it is now news.
Daihatsu only because a wholly owned subsidiary in 2017. I don’t blame Toyota for this at all. I assume that the falsified tests were only recently discovered by Upper management and corporate management, which is why it took 6 years before it was publicly reported.