Friday 27 August 2010

Toyota Recalls 1.1 Million Cars for Engine Problem

According to the statistics of Transport Statistics Sub-Division, Planning Division, there are around 40,000 new passenger cars registered in Thailand on July 2010 and around 40 % are Toyota car. After I read the news article by Nick Bunkley, “Toyota Recall 1.1 Million Cars for Engine Problem” in The New York Time’s website, I think there is high probability of the same situation in Thailand.

As mentioned in the news article, Toyota plan to recall 1.13 million compact cars covering two models: Corolla sedan model 2005 – 2008 and Matrix hatchback due to the complaint about the sudden loss of power in car engine. Since November 2009, Toyota has recalled around 11 million cars in the United Stated, and over 8 million of them were returned because of the acceleration paddle problem. The Toyota’s problems trigger the reliability crisis for not only the company itself but also the entire U.S automobile industry with the total car recall of 23.5 million from the end of last year.

Although I have heard about the Toyota’s car recall in the States for a while, I am quite surprised that there were only a few reports mentioned the concern of Thai people over this issue. In my opinion, this situation is really serious because the engine and acceleration inefficiency may cause severe accident. Even though, the models sold in Thailand are produced in the factories located in the country or the neighbor and they are not the same lots as that of US, I am still worried about the production standard of Toyota applied worldwide. Definitely, it makes me think more carefully when buying Toyota’s car. For this reason, I think that Toyota Motor Thailand should take more action in this issue whether it will get worse.
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References
Toyota Recalls 1.1 Million Cars for Engine Problem. (2010, August 26). The New York Times. Retrieved August 27, 2010. From http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/27/business/27toyota.html?_r=1&ref=business
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  1. Peter.AUA29 August 2010 at 14:34

    Aon,
    Your response to this ongoing issue reminded me of an Economist report on a scandal at Harvard University a couple of days a ago (It's also been reported in several NY Times articles the past week).
    I was also prompted to make a comparison between Harvard's response, and the response, or non-response, to similar issues at less decent universities, which I would put in the garbage set of universities because of low or non-existent academic standards.

    I'm still thinking of blogging it, but in case I don't get around to it, the reference is:
    Monkey business? (2010, August 26).The Economist. Retrieved August 29, 2010 from http://www.economist.com/node/16886218?story_id=16886218

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