Toyota Ensures Daihatsu Manipulation Does Not Affect Sales In Indonesia

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JAKARTA - In connection with the manipulation of the hit test conducted by Daihatsu, PT Toyota Astra Motor (TAM) confirmed that it would not affect the sale of Toyota cars in Indonesia.

Toyota Indonesia, indeed, already knows information about issues of certification in several models including the Toyota brand.

However, his party said that some vehicles provided for the lonal market had no connection with the results of the trial conducted by Daihatsu some time ago.

"As far as we coordinate with the principal because this is related to certification, the unit units marketed in Indonesia are not involved. Where for domestic Indonesia, especially regarding the units informed (together with other models) we at TAM make sure they have been homologated to get permits marketed by the Indonesian government," said Anton Jimmi Suwandy, as Marketing Director of PT TAM quoted from ANTARA, Thursday, May 4.

PT TAM admits that it is confident that this incident will not affect the sale of several vehicles in Indonesia.

This is evidenced by providing positive notes made by the latest vehicles, namely Toyota Agya which has 3,500 Vehicle Ordering Letters (SPK) for the LCGC and GR Sport models.

"We make sure Supply to dealers is also safe. We have targeted to enter this month at the level of 4,300 an, some of which are 2,700 and have been sent to consumers by retail until the end of last month," added Anton.

Some time ago, Daihatsu admitted that he had manipulated around 88,000 data from the side-braking test results on several models belonging to the parent company, Toyota Motor Corp.