In an interview with DTiNews, Akito Tachibana, General Director of Toyota Vietnam, shares his perspective on legal proceedings against the company. Tach exposed some of Toyota Vietnam’s technical flaws, in the Innova model, to the media, which led to recall of nearly 9,000 vehicles. Toyota Vietnam subsequently decided to suspend Tach for three months, during [...]
An engineer at Toyota Motor Vietnam Company is refusing to back down in his fight against the company he feels has besmirched him. Le Van Tach, who in May stepped forward to expose technical flaws in all Toyota Motor Vietnam (TMV) models, told VIR he had evidence showing TMV had tried to “cheat” customers and [...]
Engineer Le Van Tach was honoured for revealing serious technical problems in cars produced at Toyota’s plant in Vietnam, which led to a massive recall. The Ho Chi Minh City Anti-trade Fraud Consumer Support Association (AFCA) and the Phap Luat Vietnam (Vietnam Law) Newspaper presented him with a certificate of merit for his responsibility for [...]
Competent authorities have requested Ford Vietnam to pay tens of billions of dong in tax arrears, after they have discovered that the automobile joint venture made wrong tax declarations. Some other automobile manufacturers are also facing the same problem. Ford Vietnam found as making wrong tax declarations The information that Ford Vietnam is facing tax [...]
The Toyota Motor Vietnam engineer who went public with details of technical problems with the carmaker’s vehicles has been handed a three-month suspension. Le Van Tach, who first got wind of the suspension last week, said it wouldn’t stop him putting together a dossier of evidence about flaws in a range of Toyota Motor Vietnam’s [...]
Toyota Motor Vietnam said on Tuesday that it would expand the range of checking and adjusting the brake oil pressure on up to 6,108 Innova J vehicles instead of just 167 units that it had announced in the middle April this year. The company in the middle April apologized to local customers for the technical [...]
Toyota Vietnam representatives at the press conference on Monday Toyota Vietnam (TMV) told the media Monday that a decision to suspend an engineer has nothing to do with him exposing technical flaws in cars produced by the company. TMV confirmed at the press conference that Le Van Tach has been suspended for three months pending [...]
After Toyota Vietnam has recalled nearly 66,000 cars suffering from technical faults recently, a senior official said the actual number could be much higher and that Vietnamese authorities are considering fining the Japanese carmaker. The number of Toyota cars with technical problems in Vietnam must be higher than the 65,703 figure that Toyota Vietnam officially [...]
Toyota Motor Viet Nam (TMV) last Friday announced a free inspection programme for all Innova and Fortuner vehicles. The announcement was accompanied by an apology to all customers for quality issues exposed by TMV employee Le Van Tach. According to the company, the three quality issues related to cylinder pressure on rear wheel brake systems; [...]
Toyota Vietnam Friday afternoon officially offered its apology and released its recall plan starting next Monday on over 65,000 cars that were manufactured in Vietnam. “TMV [Toyota Vietnam] offers its sincere apology to customers in particular and Vietnamese consumers in general as it has made them worry over three quality issues of Toyota vehicles”, said [...]
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