© Reuters. Daihatsu Motors’ logos are pictured on the forty fifth Tokyo Motor Show in Tokyo, Japan October 25, 2017. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon/file picture
By Daniel Leussink
TOKYO (Reuters) -Toyota Motor unit Daihatsu will halt shipments of all automobiles each abroad and in Japan, the Asahi newspaper and different Japanese media mentioned on Wednesday, because it scrambles to answer a widening scandal over the rigging of security assessments.
Daihatsu is anticipated to report findings by an impartial panel that has been investigating the scandal to Japan’s transport ministry as early as Wednesday, Asahi mentioned, citing nameless sources.
Spokespeople for Daihatsu, which grew to become a completely owned Toyota (NYSE:) subsidiary in 2016, declined to touch upon the media studies, however the firm introduced it would maintain a joint press convention with Toyota at 0745 GMT on Wednesday.
A transport ministry official instructed Reuters the ministry obtained a report from Daihatsu in regards to the findings of the impartial panel someday after 11:30 a.m. Japan time (0230 GMT).
The automaker was discovered to have cheated on security assessments of virtually all fashions it at the moment has in manufacturing in addition to some automobiles it made up to now, the Asahi mentioned.
It could have dedicated “irregularities in procedures” for exhaust fuel certifications, it mentioned.
The earlier reported Daihatsu would widen manufacturing halts past the six fashions it had initially recognized as having issues.
Public broadcaster NHK and the Kyodo information company additionally mentioned it will halt shipments of all fashions.
Daihatsu mentioned in April that it had rigged side-collision security assessments carried out for 88,000 small automobiles, most of which had been bought beneath the Toyota model.
Daihatsu mentioned at the moment it had found the wrongly performed assessments after a whistleblower report. It additionally mentioned it had reported the difficulty to regulatory companies and halted cargo of affected fashions.
The following month, Daihatsu mentioned it had stopped gross sales of the Toyota Raize hybrid electrical automobile and its personal Rocky mannequin after additionally discovering issues with testing for these two fashions.
A spokesperson for Daihatsu mentioned on Wednesday manufacturing of these two fashions was suspended, whereas shipments of the opposite 4 affected fashions remained halted.
