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Toyota-owned automaker halts Japan production after admitting it tampered with safety tests for 30 years (www.cnn.com)

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Daihatsu, the Japanese automaker owned by Toyota, has halted domestic production after admitting it forged the results of safety tests for its vehicles for more than 30 years.

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[-] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

They did make some branded as Toyota, so maybe. I haven't seen a complete list of affected models. What I have read makes me think the Toyota branded cars weren't available in the US though.

[-] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

List of affected models: https://www.daihatsu.com/news/2023/20231220-4_1.pdf

It's not just affecting Daihatsu and Toyota models, but also some Subaru and Mazda models. It's mostly compact / cheap vehicles though, if you drive an SUV chance that it's not affected.

I wonder why they felt the need to cheat the safety tests though, it's not like people buying these cheap super compact vehicles for their safety.

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