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Join the community now! Login | Register What do we do? Club Meets Change club country UK USA Australia Popular searches Corolla , Yaris , Celica , MR2 and Avensis With winter approaching and nights drawing in it's time to check your cars lights again. Visit our partners Auto Bulbs for help There's more down below Corolla Club Yaris Club Celica Club MR2 Club Avensis Club Can't see the Toyota Club you're looking for? Try the drop down on the right... Recent Forum Posts Sagitar That guide confirms closely what I said earlier. I've seen ScanGauges advertised for about £120, but that doesn't include the cost of fitting. Might be significant if you want the monitor gauge to look neat.... Anyone Disapointed With Their Auris Hsd | 1:17am - Saturday 11 Dec Reply Last post Immy21 Hi all, just a quick question, where is the best (cheapest) place to buy a spare steel wheel for 06 1.4 d4d corolla, the wheel size if I remember right is ET45 6j 15" 4X100 pcd, unsure about bore ring. Ideally a pl... 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Get exclusive our offers and updates Home Club Hub Forums Messages Calendar Login Lost Password Help Reviews News Toyota News Industry Club Events Video Toyota Videos Photos Toyota Photos Members Photos Upload Photos Classifieds Finance USA Australia © Auto Clubs International Ltd Accessibility Privacy Terms || Bloomberg BusinessWeek Business Exchange Available on the iPad Home Blogs Columnists Lifestyle Magazine Newsletters Slide Shows Special Reports The Debate Room Videos Finance Finance Home Companies Economy Industry News Investing Blog Learning Center People Overview Real Estate Investing Retirement Planning Sectors & Industries Stocks Stocks & Markets Technology Technology Home CEO Tech Guide Columnists Computers Consumer Electronics Digital Entertainment Internet Investing Mobile & Wireless Product Reviews Software Hands On Innovation Innovation Home Architecture Auto Design Brand Blog Columnists Design Game Room Innovation Index Marketing Media Blog NEXT Blog Management Management Home Business Schools Board of Directors Book Reviews Career Management Case Studies Columnists Jobs Leadership Management IQ Blog Team Management Small Business Small Business Home Financing Policy Sales & Marketing Small Business Blog Smart Answers Starting a Business Viewpoints Global Global Home Asia Europe Europe Insight Blog Eye on Asia Blog In Depth March 11, 2010, 5:00PM EST The Humbling of Toyota A combination of high-speed global growth and ambitious cost cuts led to the quality lapses that have tarnished the once-mighty brand. How it all went wrong Brian Stauffer By Alan Ohnsman , Jeff Green and Kae Inoue Browse Issues Browse the BusinessWeek Archive Related Items Putting the Pedal to the Metal Ohno's carmaking precepts changed late-20th-century manufacturing Haruyoshi Yamaguchi/Bloomberg News Michael Caronna/Bloomberg News Staying competitive no matter what: Okuda, Cho, and Watanabe were responsible for robust cost-cutting and rapid expansion Chinafotopress/SIPA Press Press warned his bosses in Japan that vehicle quality was slipping, to no apparent effect Roy Ritchie/Wonderful Machine Story Tools post a comment e-mail this story print this story order a reprint suggest a story digg this add to Business Exchange Toyota Motor has always been fanatical about frugality, and for many years that was good for both the company and its customers. This is a Japanese carmaker that routinely turned down the heat at its employee dormitories during working hours and labeled photocopy machines with the cost per copy to discourage overuse. Its engineers collaborated with suppliers to extract cost-savings without compromising quality. Yet by the middle of the last decade Toyota's virtue had become a vice. So say current and former auto executives who are trying to grasp how Toyota, with its gold-plated reputation for engineering excellence, slipped up on such a scale, with 8 million cars recalled due to mechanical failures linked by U.S. regulators to 51 deaths. Before company officials knew that runaway acceleration was causing crashes, one of these executives says, a simple manufacturing process would sometimes ignite small fires in a component as a direct result of corner-cutting. It was just one early sign that the focus on cost reduction had gone too far. Those production mishaps occurred in 2006, a year after company President Katsuaki Watanabe boasted about having squeezed more than $10 billion from global operating costs in the previous six years—this despite an impressive run of profit growth and global market share gains in the middle of the last decade. Then Toyota pushed even harder for more cuts. It asked suppliers to design parts for its Camry midsize sedan that were 10% cheaper and 10% lighter. The company's top U.S. executive, Jim Press, warned his bosses in Japan that vehicle quality was slipping, according to a slide presentation U.S. Senate investigators unearthed in their sudden-acceleration probe. But his warning had no apparent effect. The redesigned Camry brought out in 2006 had an embarrassing flaw in its headliner, the fabric and composite lining that covers the inside roof of the car. Under pressure to cut costs, the lead Camry supplier, Toyota-affiliated Toyota Boshoku, chose a carbon fiber material that hadn't been approved by Toyota engineers, according to an executive who worked on the redesign. The headliner is made by compressing layers of materials together using a certain amount of heat to mold it. In this case, the carbon fiber required so much heat that the headliner would catch fire. Toyota fixed that problem, but when a North American parts supplier interested in working with the automaker did a teardown of a 2007 Camry, its engineers were surprised by how much the traditional Toyota craftsmanship had been watered down by years of nips and tucks. The padding in the ceiling of the car, though compliant with safety regulations, had been thinned out to save money. A tray for sunglasses used a flimsier type of plastic than previous models. "It was a bare-bones car at that point," says one executive who declined to be identified for fear of harming business ties with Toyota. Toyota insists its focus on cost hasn't hurt consumers. "It's not true that by reducing cost you automatically reduce quality," said Jim Wiseman, Toyota's vice-president for North American corporate communications. "Every automaker has to stay competitive relative to price." True, but probably not with the intensity Toyota brought to cost-cutting and rapid expansion under three successive presidents: Hiroshi Okuda (1995-1999), Fujio Cho (1999-2005), and Watanabe (2005 to 2009). Toyota executives will spend years mopping up after their mess. At last count, the company faced 109 class actions and 32 individual cases filed in courts in the U.S. and Canada. (In a well-publicized incident on Mar. 8, the owner of a 2008 Prius lost control of his car on a California interstate highway and had to be rescued by police.) 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