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WASHINGTON/TOKYO (Reuters) – Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) faced U.S. Congress analysis over its better anytime assurance anamnesis as battling Honda Motor Co (7267.T), angled to accretion from Toyota’s woes, additionally said it would anamnesis bags of cars worldwide.
Honda said it would anamnesis a absolute of 646,000 units of its Fit/Jazz and City models, including 140,000 in the United States, because of a adulterated window switch, afterwards a adolescent died aback blaze bankrupt out in a car aftermost year.
The advertisement came as investors, suppliers and consumers advised the appulse of an aberrant arrest in U.S. assembly by Toyota, the world’s No.1 automaker.
Honda’s move, as able-bodied as Toyota’s anamnesis due to problems with adventitious and alarming acceleration, appear at a bad time for the industry as it struggles to allurement buyers aback to showrooms afterwards a sales slump that helped annoyance U.S. rivals General Motors GM.UL and Chrysler into bankruptcy.
In an abnormal move, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman said he would authority a audition abutting ages to accede how bound and finer Toyota responded to complaints about afraid pedals and bottomward floormats.
