Japanese is becoming more alert because of the Mitsubishi incidents, where the tires fell off WHILE driving due to design flaw. Mitsubishi Motors has been loosing revenue due to that incident. IMO Toyota's recall is the result of a chain reaction from government scrutiny.
Toyota could actually fight the investigation and bring it to court, but they decided to recall it or else they will loose customer's faith and ended up like Mitsubishi.
You will see more scrutiny from the Japanese government in the next year or so, who knows next, probably Honda and others. It can only do good to the reliability of Japanese cars and of course us as customers.
The recall above has happened due to life threatening incidents, but I don't know if RMS, air bag light, etc issue in Porches can be considered life threatening (hence no recall for those issues).
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Originally Posted by lexuspilot
BTW, this isn't them being proactive.
The point of the post was that there will/can be problems, even systemic, with other vehicles by other manufacturers; the number of threatening, ********************ing, screaming people can be more as well. This number just blew me away.
Toyota Motor Corp. said Tuesday it was recalling 418,570
That is like, what, the last 7 years of Porsches(im not a figure nut). Bigger numbers get bigger results and more attention.
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