Toyota Motor sure is fortunate to be the world’s largest selling car company, not that it does not deserve to be the same. Toyota is known for making some of the most reliable and safe car models in the world. The Japanese car maker is also known for its great innovative skills and technological advancements that show in the quality products from the company. Thus, it is no wonder for a car manufacturer that has been winning over the hearts of millions of customers for over many decades to be the global car leader. However, everything has not been smooth for Toyota, especially when it comes to the disgrace of huge global recalls.
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Toyota Motor has been making constant massive global recalls for the past couple of years, which still seems to be far from over. The Japanese car major certainly is not happy to make these recalls, as it can be really damaging to the reputation of the globe’s most reliable and favored car brand. Nevertheless, the auto behemoth is bound to make these recalls for safety issues and quality control. Most of the recalls of the Toyota vehicles have been primarily because of car components that the company sources from third party suppliers.
Toyota has yet again issued another global recall on 11th of this month that involves a massive 2.27 million vehicles. Contrary to the huge reputation for highly safe cars, Toyota’s this recent recall also involves safety issues. This time around, the massive number of cars has been recalled in order to fix a faulty airbag system that could also cause fires.
The current recall covers 20 Toyota models, including the iconic Corolla sedan, Yaris subcompact and the Noah minivan. Till now Toyota has got a single report of a vehicle’s seat cover burn due to the malfunctioning airbag inflators.
This current year started on a bad note for the Japanese car major, as it recalled a massive 1.9 million of its flagship Prius hybrid cars. Then again in the month of April, Toyota called back a mammoth 6.39 million vehicles globally for a number of issues. Last month, 520,000 vehicles were recalled in the North America market again involving multiple issues. In the Indian car market, Toyota Kirloskar Motor (TKM) announced a recall in April that involved 44,989 units of the segment leading Innova MPV to replace a defective cable in the steering wheel.
This recent Toyota recall stretches last year’s recall which involved faulty airbags from Takata that made other Japanese car majors Honda Motor and Nissan Motor also to start investigating on the issue.
Involving the recent global recall from Toyota, the company’s Indian counterpart TKM India has yet revealed anything whether the Corolla sedans sold in India will also be recalled or not.
Though Toyota is always on top of the recall list, car recalls have become a common thing for most of the auto majors primarily because of the stringent quality and safety measures.
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