{"id":1620715,"date":"2022-08-23T17:53:33","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T21:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1620715"},"modified":"2022-08-23T17:53:42","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T21:53:42","slug":"hinos-widening-engine-scandal-becomes-nagging-headache-for-toyota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hinos-widening-engine-scandal-becomes-nagging-headache-for-toyota\/","title":{"rendered":"Hino\u2019s widening engine scandal becomes nagging headache for Toyota"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhinos-widening-engine-scandal-becomes-nagging-headache-for-toyota%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1620715&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>By Satoshi Sugiyama<\/p>\n<p>TOKYO (Reuters) -A widening scandal at Japan\u2019s Hino Motors over falsification of engine data has become a headache that will not go away for parent Toyota Motor Corp, adding to a difficult year already complicated by multiple production halts.<\/p>\n<p>Hino, Toyota\u2019s truck and bus unit, said on Monday it would suspend shipments of small trucks after a transport ministry investigation revealed that some 76,000 of its small trucks sold since 2019 had not been subject to the required number of engine tests. <\/p>\n<p>The small trucks aren\u2019t being recalled because they don\u2019t violate emissions standards, Hino said, but it has now almost completely halted sales in the domestic market. About 19,000 of Toyota\u2019s Dyna and Toyoace trucks use the Hino engine and were also impacted, Toyota said.  <\/p>\n<p>Monday\u2019s revelation was the latest sign of the scandal worsening for Hino since it first announced the data falsification affecting some of its bigger trucks in March.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, it has said it falsified data on some engines going back as far as 2003, at least a decade earlier than originally indicated. All told, about 640,000 vehicles have been affected, or more than five times the figure initially revealed.<\/p>\n<p>The issue has also thrown a spotlight on Toyota, Hino\u2019s 50.1% owner, with some analysts questioning whether the parent should have done more to oversee standards at the smaller company. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cToyota\u2019s responsibility is serious,\u201d said Seiji Sugiura, senior analyst at Tokai Tokyo Research Institute, adding that Toyota had responsibility for the corporate culture at Hino.<\/p>\n<p>Hino became Toyota\u2019s subsidiary at 2001 and nearly all presidents since then have been those who previously worked for Toyota.<\/p>\n<p>Although Toyota has done necessary tasks as a parent company in terms of approving important matters and giving advice on governance, it could not directly intervene in Hino\u2019s management, said Toyota\u2019s Chief Communications Officer Jun Nagata. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do not believe that we were able to intervene,\u201d Nagata said, adding it would be up to Hino to restructure the company and protect its brand. <\/p>\n<p>CORPORATE CULTURE IN SPOTLIGHT<\/p>\n<p>Shares of Hino fell 6.4% on Tuesday. They are down 38% this year, making the company the worst performer of the 57 comprising the Tokyo exchange\u2019s automotive index.<\/p>\n<p>The woes come in a difficult year for Toyota, after vehicle output fell 10% short of its original plan in the April-June quarter, hit by a global semiconductor shortage and supply chain disruptions because of China\u2019s COVID-19 lockdowns. <\/p>\n<p>Still, Toyota\u2019s shares are little changed this year.<\/p>\n<p>Hino has said that even though the engine for the small trucks was supposed to be tested at least two times at each measurement point, it was only tested once at each site.<\/p>\n<p>A company-commissioned panel said in a report this month that Hino had falsified emissions data on some engines going back to at least 2003, or more than a decade earlier than previously indicated.<\/p>\n<p>Hino blamed an inward-looking corporate culture and a management failure to engage sufficiently with workers that led to an environment that put greater priority on achieving schedules and numerical targets than following processes.<\/p>\n<p>Hino joins a string of Japanese automakers involved in improper emissions tests.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, the government said Mazda Motor Corp, Suzuki Motor Corp and Yamaha Motor Co Ltd had improperly tested vehicles for fuel economy and emissions.<\/p>\n<p>Subaru Corp and Nissan Motor Co Ltd were under scrutiny for the same reason the year before.<\/p>\n<p>The accuracy of automakers\u2019 emissions data was thrown into doubt in 2015 when Germany\u2019s Volkswagen AG admitted it had installed secret software in hundreds of thousands of U.S. diesel cars to cheat emissions tests and that as many as 11 million vehicles could have similar software worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>($1 = 137.3800 yen)<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Satoshi Sugiyama; Editing by David Dolan and Shri Navaratnam)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/?attachment_id=2740637\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI7M00B-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI7M00B-VIEWIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Satoshi Sugiyama TOKYO (Reuters) -A widening scandal at Japan\u2019s Hino Motors over falsification of engine data has become a headache that will not go away for parent Toyota Motor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1620715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1620715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1620715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1620715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1620715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}