> August 6, 2010
>
> Toyota Fast Facts is an update on Toyota and industry news. For more news,
> visit www.toyotanewsroom.com.
>
> 1. St. Angelo Confident There are No Problems with Vehicle Electronics
>
> Toyota’s Chief Quality Officer for North America, Steve St. Angelo, told
> reporters at the Management Briefing Seminar in Traverse City, Mich.,
> Thursday that he believes there are no problems with the electronics in
> Toyota vehicles. "I really feel 100 percent confident there is nothing
> wrong with our electronic systems," he said.
>
> To read more, please click on:
> http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN0523353120100805
>
> St. Angelo also told reporters that Toyota’s North American Quality
> Advisory Panel will share initial findings with the company next week. The
> panel, led by former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Rodney Slater, is
> comprised of independent experts who have been reviewing Toyota’s quality
> assurance processes.
>
> To read more, please click on:
> http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-05/toyota-quality-panel-will-share-reco...
>
> To read St. Angelo’s speech Thursday, please click on:
> http://pressroom.toyota.com/pr/tms/2010-management-briefing-seminar-165897.aspx
>
> (Embedded image moved to file: pic13857.jpg)
>
> 2. Scion Introduces the All-New tC Sport Coupe
>
> Scion announced the arrival today of the all-new 2011 tC sport coupe, which
> offers more power, better fuel efficiency and aggressive styling.
>
> To read the press release, visit the Toyota USA Newsroom at:
> http://pressroom.toyota.com/pr/tms/scion/all-new-2011-scion-tc-sports-coupe-1...
>
> (Embedded image moved to file: pic01166.jpg)
>
> 3. ‘Toyota Defense’ Frees Minnesota Man in 2006 Vehicle Homicide Case
>
> A Minnesota judge ruled Thursday that Koua Fong Lee deserved a new trial
> based on new evidence related to Toyota’s recalls and ineffective
> assistance of his trial attorney. The prosecutor declined to retry the
> case. Later in the day, Lee walked out of prison after spending two and a
> half years of an eight-year sentence behind bars.
>
> Lee had been convicted of vehicular homicide in a 2006 crash on a freeway
> off-ramp that killed three people. He claimed at trial that he pressed the
> brakes repeatedly but the vehicle accelerated to 70 to 90 miles per hour.
>
> During the hearing that led up to his release, two mechanical engineers –
> one for the prosecution and one for the defense – examined Lee’s vehicle
> and testified that the brakes were operating and there was no problem with
> the accelerator. Other witnesses included drivers who alleged they had
> experienced unintended acceleration in their Toyota vehicles. Lee’s 1996
> Camry was not among the models recalled by Toyota for possible sticking
> accelerator pedal or floor-mat entrapment.
>
> To read more, please click on:
> http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/08/06/toyota.recall.appeal/
>
> (Embedded image moved to file: pic11482.jpg)
>
> 4. Prof. Jeffrey Liker: Toyota ‘Going Above and Beyond’ on Safety,
> Reliability
>
> Toyota is “going above and beyond” in addressing the safety and reliability
> of its vehicles,” University of Michigan Professor Jeffrey Liker, author of
> the best-selling book The Toyota Way, said in an interview with Canada’s
> Business News Network last week. “This is really a remaking of the company
> from top to bottom.”
>
> Here are some excerpts from the interview:
>
> “What is a recall and what’s not is a matter of judgment, and Toyota’s just
> changed their standards in order to be an ‘A’ student in every way. And
> they’re going back 10 years and their recalling everything that might
> possibly be a problem.”
>
> Recent recalls “are things that normally in the past would not have been
> recalled. But…Toyota is basically clearing their backlog… And anything
> that under today’s conditions would be a recall, they are voluntarily
> recalling. If you look at something like the Prius brakes, the Prius was
> recalled. Ford had the same problem, or a similar problem, on the Ford
> Fusion hybrid – no recall. They just said it’s not a safety issue, no
> recall. There have been many cases like that. Chrysler has sticky pedals –
> no recall.”
>
> He noted Toyota has taken a number of other steps to ensure quality. These
> include appointing chief quality officers and establishing regional quality
> centers in each region to increase local autonomy and input on quality to
> the global headquarters in Japan, assigning teams of engineers to conduct
> field investigations, lengthening the product development cycle to provide
> more time for testing, and adding a thousand engineers.
>
> “This is really kind of a remaking of the company from top to bottom…It’s
> very significant – maybe going above and beyond what they need to just to
> deal with the crisis, and they’re really thinking about the next 30 years,
> not just about this short term problem.”
>
> Liker was interviewed along with Karl Brauer, editor-in-chief of
> Edmunds.com, and George Magliano, director, North America auto industry
> research for IHS Automotive. The interview, which is divided into three
> segments, is available online at
> http://watch.bnn.ca/headline/july-2010/headline-july-30-2010/#clip330955
>
> Toyota Fast Facts is an update on Toyota and industry news. For more news,
> visit www.toyotanewsroom.com.
>
> 1. St. Angelo Confident There are No Problems with Vehicle Electronics
>
> Toyota’s Chief Quality Officer for North America, Steve St. Angelo, told
> reporters at the Management Briefing Seminar in Traverse City, Mich.,
> Thursday that he believes there are no problems with the electronics in
> Toyota vehicles. "I really feel 100 percent confident there is nothing
> wrong with our electronic systems," he said.
>
> To read more, please click on:
> http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN0523353120100805
>
> St. Angelo also told reporters that Toyota’s North American Quality
> Advisory Panel will share initial findings with the company next week. The
> panel, led by former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Rodney Slater, is
> comprised of independent experts who have been reviewing Toyota’s quality
> assurance processes.
>
> To read more, please click on:
> http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-05/toyota-quality-panel-will-share-reco...
>
> To read St. Angelo’s speech Thursday, please click on:
> http://pressroom.toyota.com/pr/tms/2010-management-briefing-seminar-165897.aspx
>
> (Embedded image moved to file: pic13857.jpg)
>
> 2. Scion Introduces the All-New tC Sport Coupe
>
> Scion announced the arrival today of the all-new 2011 tC sport coupe, which
> offers more power, better fuel efficiency and aggressive styling.
>
> To read the press release, visit the Toyota USA Newsroom at:
> http://pressroom.toyota.com/pr/tms/scion/all-new-2011-scion-tc-sports-coupe-1...
>
> (Embedded image moved to file: pic01166.jpg)
>
> 3. ‘Toyota Defense’ Frees Minnesota Man in 2006 Vehicle Homicide Case
>
> A Minnesota judge ruled Thursday that Koua Fong Lee deserved a new trial
> based on new evidence related to Toyota’s recalls and ineffective
> assistance of his trial attorney. The prosecutor declined to retry the
> case. Later in the day, Lee walked out of prison after spending two and a
> half years of an eight-year sentence behind bars.
>
> Lee had been convicted of vehicular homicide in a 2006 crash on a freeway
> off-ramp that killed three people. He claimed at trial that he pressed the
> brakes repeatedly but the vehicle accelerated to 70 to 90 miles per hour.
>
> During the hearing that led up to his release, two mechanical engineers –
> one for the prosecution and one for the defense – examined Lee’s vehicle
> and testified that the brakes were operating and there was no problem with
> the accelerator. Other witnesses included drivers who alleged they had
> experienced unintended acceleration in their Toyota vehicles. Lee’s 1996
> Camry was not among the models recalled by Toyota for possible sticking
> accelerator pedal or floor-mat entrapment.
>
> To read more, please click on:
> http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/08/06/toyota.recall.appeal/
>
> (Embedded image moved to file: pic11482.jpg)
>
> 4. Prof. Jeffrey Liker: Toyota ‘Going Above and Beyond’ on Safety,
> Reliability
>
> Toyota is “going above and beyond” in addressing the safety and reliability
> of its vehicles,” University of Michigan Professor Jeffrey Liker, author of
> the best-selling book The Toyota Way, said in an interview with Canada’s
> Business News Network last week. “This is really a remaking of the company
> from top to bottom.”
>
> Here are some excerpts from the interview:
>
> “What is a recall and what’s not is a matter of judgment, and Toyota’s just
> changed their standards in order to be an ‘A’ student in every way. And
> they’re going back 10 years and their recalling everything that might
> possibly be a problem.”
>
> Recent recalls “are things that normally in the past would not have been
> recalled. But…Toyota is basically clearing their backlog… And anything
> that under today’s conditions would be a recall, they are voluntarily
> recalling. If you look at something like the Prius brakes, the Prius was
> recalled. Ford had the same problem, or a similar problem, on the Ford
> Fusion hybrid – no recall. They just said it’s not a safety issue, no
> recall. There have been many cases like that. Chrysler has sticky pedals –
> no recall.”
>
> He noted Toyota has taken a number of other steps to ensure quality. These
> include appointing chief quality officers and establishing regional quality
> centers in each region to increase local autonomy and input on quality to
> the global headquarters in Japan, assigning teams of engineers to conduct
> field investigations, lengthening the product development cycle to provide
> more time for testing, and adding a thousand engineers.
>
> “This is really kind of a remaking of the company from top to bottom…It’s
> very significant – maybe going above and beyond what they need to just to
> deal with the crisis, and they’re really thinking about the next 30 years,
> not just about this short term problem.”
>
> Liker was interviewed along with Karl Brauer, editor-in-chief of
> Edmunds.com, and George Magliano, director, North America auto industry
> research for IHS Automotive. The interview, which is divided into three
> segments, is available online at
> http://watch.bnn.ca/headline/july-2010/headline-july-30-2010/#clip330955
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