Daihatsu, the Japanese automaker owned by Toyota, has halted production after admitting it falsified data in safety tests for its vehicles for 30 years.
Check the Toyota models sold in North America and the models actually produced by Daihatsu, lists are easy to find on Wikipedia and there’s very few Toyota cars small enough to fit what Daihatsu produce themselves, the Tercel, Echo and Yaris are the only ones and they were all manufactured by Toyota (or Mazda for the last gen of the Yaris in North America). For Scion the iQ would have been the only one small enough and will you look at that, manufactured by Toyota themselves.
That’s not even considering the part where safety tests are done independently from the manufacturers in North America.
So please, can we stop scaring people for no reason?
Check the Toyota models sold in North America and the models actually produced by Daihatsu, lists are easy to find on Wikipedia and there’s very few Toyota cars small enough to fit what Daihatsu produce themselves, the Tercel, Echo and Yaris are the only ones and they were all manufactured by Toyota (or Mazda for the last gen of the Yaris in North America). For Scion the iQ would have been the only one small enough and will you look at that, manufactured by Toyota themselves.
That’s not even considering the part where safety tests are done independently from the manufacturers in North America.
So please, can we stop scaring people for no reason?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Daihatsu_vehicles
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Toyota_vehicles