It has been an inauspicious start for Akio Toyoda, who took over last summer as president of the world’s largest automaker.
Toyota Motor Corp. is battling its biggest quality crisis ever and is reeling from recalls of more than 8 million cars on three continents. If there was ever a time to lead, this is it. But Akio has so far been a no-show.
The grandson of the company’s founder has largely skirted the recall fiasco in public. In October he made a brief apology after four people were killed in a runaway Lexus near San Diego.
But since then, he has continued to lie low -- even as the recalls exploded in scope last month.
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