Hino Motors’ emblem is pictured on the forty fifth Tokyo Motor Present in Tokyo, Japan October 27, 2017. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon
Sept 4 (Reuters) – Japan’s Toyota Motor Corp’s (7203.T) truck and bus unit Hino Motors (7205.T) will halt manufacturing of some medium and heavy-duty vans for at the least one other 12 months after a widespread knowledge falsification scandal, Nikkei Asia reported on Sunday.
The medium-duty Ranger and the heavy-duty Profia truck won’t be produced till August 2023, the report added.
Halting manufacturing of some truck fashions is the newest signal of the scandal worsening for Hino because it first introduced the information falsification affecting a few of its greater vans in March.
Since then, it has mentioned it falsified knowledge on some engines going again so far as 2003, at the least a decade sooner than initially indicated. All informed, about 640,000 automobiles have been affected, or greater than 5 instances the determine initially revealed. learn extra
Hino mentioned final month it could droop shipments of small vans after a transport ministry investigation revealed that some 76,000 of its small vans bought since 2019 had not been topic to the required variety of engine assessments. learn extra
Toyota and others concerned in a industrial automobile partnership have since expelled Hino from the group over falsification of engine knowledge by the truckmaker. learn extra
The widening scandal at Japan’s Hino Motors over falsification of engine knowledge has change into a headache that won’t go away for mum or dad Toyota which has a controlling 50.1% stake in Hino.
Hino turned Toyota’s subsidiary in 2001 and practically all Hino presidents since then beforehand labored for Toyota.
Toyota didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark, and Hino couldn’t instantly be reached.
Reporting by Mrinmay Dey in Bengaluru; modifying by Jonathan Oatis
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