Toyota unit Hino to freeze truck production for two models for a year – Nikkei

Hino Motors’ brand 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 vehicles for at the very least one other 12 months after a widespread information falsification scandal, Nikkei Asia reported on Sunday.

The medium-duty Ranger and the heavy-duty Profia truck is not going to 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 info falsification affecting a few of its greater vehicles in March.

Since then, it has stated it falsified information on some engines going again so far as 2003, at the very least a decade sooner than initially indicated. All advised, about 640,000 automobiles have been affected, or greater than 5 occasions the determine initially revealed. learn extra

Hino stated final month it will droop shipments of small vehicles after a transport ministry investigation revealed that some 76,000 of its small vehicles bought since 2019 had not been topic to the required variety of engine assessments. learn extra

Toyota and others concerned in a business car partnership have since expelled Hino from the group over falsification of engine information by the truckmaker. learn extra

The widening scandal at Japan’s Hino Motors over falsification of engine information has change into a headache that won’t go away for guardian Toyota which has a controlling 50.1% stake in Hino.

Hino grew to become 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; enhancing by Jonathan Oatis

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