House committee releases Toyota execs' opening statements for tomorrow's hearing
 

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The Congressional hearings entitled "Response by <a href="http://autoblog.com/make/toyota">Toyota</a> and NHTSA to Incidents of Sudden Unintended Acceleration" <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2010/02/23/watch-the-congressional-toyota-recall-hearings-live/">may have started today</a>, but the actual response by Toyoda - that's Akio Toyoda with a "D," head of the Japanese automaker - will come tomorrow.<br />
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If you plan on tuning in to see what interesting new information comes out in Toyoda's testimony, please allow us to direct you to his prepared testimony after the break. There you'll read about three separate topics, according to Toyoda: "Toyota's basic philosophy regarding quality control, the cause of the recalls, and how we will manage quality control going forward."<br />
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Perhaps the most telling part of Toyoda's testimony comes at the very end:<br />
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<div><em>My name is on every car. You have my personal commitment that Toyota will work vigorously and unceasingly to restore the trust of our customers.</em></div>
</blockquote>Remember too that Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A. President Jim Lentz <a href="http://www.autonews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100223/OEM/100229960/1147">will also go before the committee</a>, where he's expected to reiterate that electronic problems are not the cause of the automaker's unintended acceleration woes.<br />
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Both Toyoda and Yoshimi Inaba's (Chairman and CEO of Toyota Motor Sales) comments are <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2010/02/23/house-committee-releases-toyota-execs-opening-statements-for-to/#continued">available after the jump</a>. Both are suscint and to-the-point, but the real fireworks will happen during the questioning period at tomorrow's hearing.<br />
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