Toyota’s Total Recall
Toyota is now recalling half a million hybrid vehicles across the world, including the Prius. They’ve received over 200 complaints from Japan in the U.S. over a software glitch related to brake systems.
Undoubtedly Toyota is being extremely cautious here. They are willing to take it on the chin financially in the short term in order to staunch the bleeding of their long-term reputation.
At least their president is finally showing his face and acting like the leader of a global corporation:
“I apologise for causing trouble and worries for many customers over the quality and safety of Toyota,” its embattled president, Akio Toyoda, told reporters in Tokyo today, his second public apology in less than a week.
“We sincerely acknowledge safety concerns from our customers. We have decided to recall as we regard safety for our customers as our foremost priority. We will redouble our commitment to quality as a lifeline of our company. We will do everything in our power to regain the confidence of our customers.”
Toyota informed the transport ministry of the recall of 223,000 hybrid cars in Japan across four models: about 200,000 of the 2010 Prius model and much smaller numbers of the Prius plug-in hybrid, the SAI and the Lexus HS250h luxury car.
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about 1 month ago
It is so good for listening in day time.
about 3 weeks ago
Might wanna try learning English first?
There are several ways to say I.
Watakushi (extremely polite)
Watashi (common)
Atashi (girls only, casual, only say to friends)
Boku (boys only, casual, only say to friends)
Ore (boys only, manly sounding, only say to friends)
Uchi (childish, only say to friends)
There is no way to say "a" in Japanese, because they do not use articles before nouns. "A dog" in English, simply becomes "dog" or "inu" in Japanese.
There are two different ways to say "want" in Japanese. If you want an object, you use "OO ga hoshii desu." For example, I want pizza is "Pizza ga hoshii desu." You can remove the desu at the end for less polite language.
If you want to do something, you have to conjugate the verb to the ~tai ending. For example, "to eat" in the dictionary form of the verb is "taberu." The "ru" at the end of the word is the changeable part. For example, to make it polite you would drop the "ru" and add "masu." Taberu becomes tabemasu. For "I want to eat" you would drop the "ru" and add "tai." Taberu becomes tabetai, which means I want to eat.
about 3 weeks ago
The destiny of the president of the Supreme Court of Justice, Ion Muruianu could be decided today. The Superior Magistracy Council is going to examine, this morning the dismissal request for the SCJ president Ion Muruiau.
about 1 week ago
Wow I'm impressed by the comments above me, other than "gowpet" who needs to get a clue and try living outside the US and see how embarrassed you are.
I'm impressed with the fact that people are looking into what this bill actually means. On the surface Bush looks like a hateful person by vetoing a bill to help children, which is what the left-wing media wants you to think. This bill is so flawed and definately needed to be vetoed and I applaud Bush for doing so. I'm all for helping poor children's health care, but this bill is definately not the way to do it.