Over 30 lakhs SUVs retrieved by Toyota

Toyota Motor Corporation will be retrieving 308,000 SUV's as they have come across a serious problem of airbag malfunctioning. Airbags are very necessary in sport utility vehicles (SUV's) because they prevent damage of accidents on human life. They doubt that sensors might fail and curtain airbags may scatter after the accident,  so they declared on Thursday to recall SUV's for resolving the problem. From 2007 to 2008 models, around 214,000 RAV4 and 94,000 Highlander SUV's will be retrieved back to the manufacturing company. The vehicles with such kind of airbag defects were launched only in North America, so Toyota says that this retrieval will cause inconvenience only in North America.

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The latest advancement in this process has been seen today when Toyota Kirloskar Motor Pvt. Ltd (TKM) declared their decision of progress in making pronominal production adjudicates. The reason behind this decision is the shortage of supplies caused by the disastrous earthquake and tsunami in Japan on 11th March. Under this plan, the production will be cut down from 6 days a week to 4 days as there will be no production on Mondays and Fridays. This will only happen when plan will be in action which is in between the tentative dates 25th April to 4th June. Only 30 per cent out of its normal capacity will be operated between these dates by Toyota Kirloskar Motor. Toyota Kirloskar service and spare parts supply function will stay unaffected after implementing the plan. Everything else from Customer care services at dealership to the functioning of supply of spare parts will not be affected and will continue as usual.

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As per Mr. Hiroshi Nakagawa, the Managing Director of Toyota Motors, this amendment has been done only to meet the present situation in which there is a scarcity of resources, they will try to bring the previous policies back as soon as they can. He also said that- "Our focus is on ensuring optimum stock management to reduce the impact on our customers from the immediate production shortfalls". Mr. Sandeep Singh, who is the Deputy Managing Director of Marketing (in TKM), apologized for the inconvenience which is caused to the customers. He also added that he is very much aware of how his customers are facing difficulties because of the new plan. He assured that they will try their best to lessen the delivery delays. Until now no policies or plans have been formed for the production after 4th June. It will be decided shortly.