Toyota halts deliveries and production due to safety test fraud | News

In recent years, Toyota has seemed in the eyes of car enthusiasts to be a company that can do no wrong with its remarkable commitment to producing high-performance cars and its extensive involvement in motorsports. However, in the eyes of the Japanese government, it turns out that the company can certainly do wrong, as it has been forced to stop deliveries and production of a number of cars due to falsified data during safety tests.

This is the latest development in a scandal that rocked Daihatsu, now wholly owned by Toyota, late last year when the company halted production for a month over similar incidents. As the BBC reported, there was little evidence to suggest that the cars being sold were unsafe. Rather, the problem was that the cars being tested for safety were fitted with different components to those being sold in order to keep production running at full speed.