2007 Toyota Aurion SRS failure injures a lady driver in Kuwait
Kuwait/Tokyo: Less than 24 hours after a lawsuit was filed by a female Kuwaiti citizen against Toyota demanding compensation for damage suffered due to manufacturing faults in her vehicle, attorney Saad Al-Ruwaishid told Al Watan that he would also be filing a lawsuit against Toyota and its agent in Kuwait, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry and the Ministry of Interior to recall all Toyota Aurion 2007 models from the Kuwaiti market and to not issue any licenses to the vehicle after it has been proven that there are faults in the SRS system.
Al-Ruwaishid showed Al Watan a report issued by the Experts Department at the Ministry of Justice proving that a citizen injured his spine in a car accident due to the airbag failing to deploy despite the fact the citizen was wearing a seatbelt.
In Tokyo Friday, Toyota’’s president swapped his business suit for a worker’’s uniform as he sought to reassure workers and urge them to make a fresh start following the automaker’’s global mass recall crisis.
"The current problem of quality has yet to be solved, and we have a mountain of work to do," Akio Toyoda said after the Japanese giant pulled more than eight million cars worldwide to repair accelerator and brake defects.
Toyoda, the grandson of Toyota’’s founder, was speaking with at times teary eyes and a choked voice about his trip to the United States where he testified in a congressional panel, spoke to Toyota staff and appeared on CNN.
"I was feeling lonely as Toyota was being criticized repeatedly on TV and in newspapers, and I was being chased by the media," he said.
"In the United States, there was the language barrier, and I am not certain how much I could get across. Anyway, I want them to acknowledge that Toyota has changed through the current problem."
The 53-year-old executive said he saw the day of his congressional roasting and repeated apologies as a turning point.
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"We must make February 24, the day of the hearing, the day for Toyota to restart. We must do away with our past experience of success and reconsider the value of our existence with resolve," he said.
Wearing an ash-grey jacket like the rows of workers before him, he promised to "work hard to improve ourselves to regain our customers” confidence."
The meeting, dubbed the "all-Toyota emergency meeting toward Toyota’’s restart," was attended by 2,000 employees, dealers and parts suppliers at the company headquarters outside Nagoya, central Japan.
