{"id":281448,"date":"2010-02-05T09:38:38","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T14:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/?p=50364"},"modified":"2010-02-05T09:38:38","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T14:38:38","slug":"toyota-ceo-akio-toyoda-apologizes-says-company-will-do-utmost-to-regain-trust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/281448","title":{"rendered":"Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda apologizes, says company will do utmost to regain trust"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Toyota’s \u00a0CEO, Akio Toyoda, has finally come out of hiding and apologize at a new conference held Friday night in Japan. Toyoda, the grandson of Toyota’s founder,\u00a0apologized for the recall of more than 9 million vehicles worldwide and also promised that Toyota will announce steps to address brake problems on the 2010 Prius hybrid.<\/p>\n

This was Toyoda’s first formal appearance since the recall uproar unfolding at his company.<\/p>\n

\u201cI deeply regret that I caused concern among so many people,\u201d Toyoda said. \u201cWe will do our utmost to\u00a0regain the trust of our customers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked whether the Japanese automaker had underestimated the seriousness of the situation, Toyoda said:\u00a0\u201cI believe what is happening now is a very big problem. We are in a crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n

Toyoda also apologized to Toyota’s shareholders for the 20 percent drop in the company’s stock in the last two weeks.<\/p>\n

Update: <\/strong>We’ve added a video of Toyoda’s apology after the jump.<\/p>\n

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– By: Omar Rana<\/em><\/p>\n

Source: NYT<\/a><\/p>\n

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Toyota’s \u00a0CEO, Akio Toyoda, has finally come out of hiding and apologize at a new conference held Friday night in Japan. Toyoda, the grandson of Toyota’s founder,\u00a0apologized for the recall of more than 9 million vehicles worldwide and also promised that Toyota will announce steps to address brake problems on the 2010 Prius hybrid. This […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}