{"id":667596,"date":"2010-02-17T13:44:12","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T18:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10002247"},"modified":"2010-02-17T13:37:44","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T18:37:44","slug":"toyota-boss-slams-brakes-on-speaking-to-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/667596","title":{"rendered":"Toyota Boss Slams Brakes On Speaking To Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/02\/Akio4666751-lga-thumb-250x305-37114.jpg?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p>Even though there&#8217;s been <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/02\/toyota-president-taking-heat-for-rescheduling-us-trip.html\" >talk of issuing a subpoena<\/a> to Toyota President Akio Toyoda, compelling him to speak before Congress, the big boss at the recall-happy car manufacturer has decided to let others do the talking for him.<\/p>\n<p>In a press conference earlier today, Toyoda, the grandson of the company&#8217;s founder, said that he was fine with leaving the whole speaking to Congress thing to Toyota&#8217;s North American chief Yoshimi Inaba.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have full confidence in the management of Toyota Motor North America, led by Mr Inaba, and I believe he is the best placed to testify,&#8221; Toyoda explained. He later added, &#8220;I will focus on internal reform to improve quality and support Inaba from our headquarters.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>Is this the right move by Toyoda? Is there even a point to dragging a Toyota executive before Congress?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE61D2TS20100217\" >Toyota chief sidesteps Congress<\/a> [Reuters]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though there&#8217;s been talk of issuing a subpoena to Toyota President Akio Toyoda, compelling him to speak before Congress, the big boss at the recall-happy car manufacturer has decided to let others do the talking for him. In a press conference earlier today, Toyoda, the grandson of the company&#8217;s founder, said that he was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3605,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-667596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2NFG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3605"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}