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Originally Posted by dalej8
I think they should serve up some compensation for being incompetant
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All these problems were created during or ignored by Watanabe management. So we immediately ask a simple question. Does he have a driver's license? A question too often never asked because many auto executives are that destructive.
We know Toyoda took power. And then announced Toyota has major and serious problems. Announced long before these (and probably other problems) were known.
So who is Watanabe? Educated as an economist. Spent his entire carrer working in Toyota management - often in strategic planning. Did not work where the work gets done. As best I can tell, is not a car guy. Sounds so much like Rick Wagoner and Nardelli of Chrysler.
Long before Toyota's problems were known, Toyoda (in early 2009) said major problems exist. Watanabe's reign created the first Toyota not on Consumer Report recommended list - the full size Tundra. An entire production line (in San Antonio?) was manufactured with defective crankshafts (that snap). About $4000 of labor and parts to repair. That early 2007 'discovery' may have been one of the earliest indications that Toyota had serious management problems directly traceable to top management. A man who never worked where the work gets done.