Toyota – no such thing as bad publicity?
Toyota have been in the news recently after a disastrous start to 2010 when they had to recall hundreds of thousands of cars across North America and Europe after it was discovered that there was a fault with the breaks. As a Toyota Yaris owner I was panicking but it turns out it was only the models above mind that were recall, for once buying the cheaper model worked in my favour. More recently Toyota’s luxury brand, Lexus, has issued a statement in the United States saying that it will be recalling over 138,000 models of its Lexus as apparently some foreign material may have contaminated a small number of the valve springs in these cars. Toyota have certainly had a terrible start to the year and it does not look like it is going to get any better, whether this will have an effect on their sales and the company as a whole we will have to wait and see.