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Toyota acknowledges more certification cheating and apologizes

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By YURI KAGEYAMA

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The American press has covered this matter and their take is very different from that of the Japanese press. The Toyota engineers looked at the various standards their cars have to meet and chose the toughest standards, typically but not exclusively those for the US market and tested their cars to those standards. Their engineers certified them to meet the Japanese standards because they met the tougher standards of other nations, usually but not exclusively those for the US market.

The Japanese regulators are getting their panties in a bunch because after meeting the tougher standards abroad Toyota and other Japanese auto manufacturers didn't didn't do another round of expensive tests to the lower standards Japan requires. According to articles I have read in the US the engineers at Toyota and some other Japanese car makers are furious with the Japanese regulators for being so bone headed on the matter. Their take is, why waste time and money testing to less rigorous Japanese standards just to sign them off in Japan when their cars already greatly exceed those standards to meet the more rigorous standards abroad? They deeply resent being called cheaters. They didn't cheat. They tested their products well beyond what Japan requires. It really chaps their backsides.

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Do you have a single source for your above claim? I can't find anything like that, even in overseas sources. I could only find this quote from the previous reporting of this scandal around 1 month ago:

"The issues identified by [Toyota Motor Corporation] are based on a review of past certifications to Japanese requirements," a North American Toyota spokesperson told The Register. "Vehicles sold in North America are certified using different processes and to different standards applicable to North American markets."

But that is very different to what you are claiming.

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Chairman of Toyota, Akio Toyoda has caused backlash by his arrogant remarks that demand to overlook such scandal because Toyota is Japanese leading corporation.

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The American press has covered this matter and their take is very different from that of the Japanese press. The Toyota engineers looked at the various standards their cars have to meet and chose the toughest standards, typically but not exclusively those for the US market and tested their cars to those standards.

That is absolutely false.

According to the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions, "The European Union (EU) and Japan have the most stringent standards in the world. The fuel economy and greenhouse gas emission performance of the U.S. cars and light trucks—both historically and projected based on current policies—lags behind most other nations".

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Interested in whether there was fraudulent intent, or just laziness -- not clear from this article.

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