{"id":354317,"date":"2010-02-23T14:27:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T19:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/02\/23\/house-committee-releases-toyota-execs-opening-statements-for-to\/"},"modified":"2010-02-23T14:27:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T19:27:00","slug":"house-committee-releases-toyota-execs-opening-statements-for-tomorrows-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/354317","title":{"rendered":"House committee releases Toyota execs&#8217; opening statements for tomorrow&#8217;s hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/government-legal\/\" rel=\"tag\">Government\/Legal<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/recalls-tsbs\/\" rel=\"tag\">Recalls<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/safety\/\" rel=\"tag\">Safety<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/toyota\/\" rel=\"tag\">Toyota<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"0\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2010\/02\/hkg3207618opt.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Congressional hearings entitled &#8220;Response by <a href=\"http:\/\/autoblog.com\/make\/toyota\">Toyota<\/a> and NHTSA to Incidents of Sudden Unintended Acceleration&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/02\/23\/watch-the-congressional-toyota-recall-hearings-live\/\">may have started today<\/a>, but the actual response by Toyoda &#8211; that&#8217;s Akio Toyoda with a &#8220;D,&#8221; head of the Japanese automaker &#8211; will come tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>If you plan on tuning in to see what interesting new information comes out in Toyoda&#8217;s testimony, please allow us to direct you to his prepared testimony after the break. There you&#8217;ll read about three separate topics, according to Toyoda: &#8220;Toyota&#8217;s basic philosophy regarding quality control, the cause of the recalls, and how we will manage quality control going forward.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the most telling part of Toyoda&#8217;s testimony comes at the very end:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div><em>My name is on every car. You have my personal commitment that Toyota will work vigorously and unceasingly to restore the trust of our customers.<\/em><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Remember too that Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A. President Jim Lentz <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autonews.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20100223\/OEM\/100229960\/1147\">will also go before the committee<\/a>, where he&#8217;s expected to reiterate that electronic problems are not the cause of the automaker&#8217;s unintended acceleration woes.<\/p>\n<p>Both Toyoda and Yoshimi Inaba&#8217;s (Chairman and CEO of Toyota Motor Sales) comments are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/02\/23\/house-committee-releases-toyota-execs-opening-statements-for-to\/#continued\">available after the jump<\/a>. Both are suscint and to-the-point, but the real fireworks will happen during the questioning period at tomorrow&#8217;s hearing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/toyota_recall\/guide\"><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"0\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2010\/02\/ab-recall-banner-sm-1265124357-1266872213-1266887266-1266941479.png\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em><strong><small>Tired of Toyota recall news? Try out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/exclude\/toyota+recall\">recall-free version<\/a> of Autoblog.<br \/>\n<\/small><\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n[Source: Committee on Oversight and Government Reform | Image: Yoshikazu Tsuno\/AFP\/Getty]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/02\/23\/house-committee-releases-toyota-execs-opening-statements-for-to\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Continue reading <em>House committee releases Toyota execs&#8217; opening statements for tomorrow&#8217;s hearing<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/02\/23\/house-committee-releases-toyota-execs-opening-statements-for-to\/\">House committee releases Toyota execs&#8217; opening statements for tomorrow&#8217;s hearing<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\">Autoblog<\/a> on Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:27:00 EST.  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